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Hello, everyone, my guest today is Ron Giva.

He's a serial entrepreneur with over two decades of hands-on experience in software

development and leadership positions. After founding Omgilea, searching for online discussions

and co-founding Bazila, one of the top web monitoring and analytics companies in Israel,

he went on to co-found webhose.io, his current project. It's a leader, leading global

provider of structured web data where he serves as

CEO and lead technologist. Ron, are you ready to take us to the top?

Yep. Of course. All right. Tell us about web hose. What do you guys do and how do you make money?

Well, we sell data feeds. We turn the web into machine readable data feeds and

either individuals or companies tap into

this data to feed their analytics applications. So it could be from brand monitoring,

PR applications to cyber security, financial applications, anything. We basically

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