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People CEO Neil Vogel has criticized web crawlers, accusing technology company Google of being a bad actor. Vogel says his company deploys guards against web crawlers but exempts Google because of the ...

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Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle ...