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Steven Goh | CEO

Steven Goh | CEO

World's laziest CEO. CEO of NinjaPear. Ex-Founder of Proxycurl (10+M), Steven founded 5 other startups: Gom VPN, Kloudsec, SilvrBullet, NuMoney, and SharedHere.

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Enrich Social Media Profiles With NinjaPear
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Enrich Social Media Profiles With NinjaPear

I have good and bad news. The bad news is that I had a way better update but had to drop it due to legal concerns. The good news is that you can now enrich social media profiles on NinjaPear, and also get rich social media profile URLs back as

LinkedIn Data Vendors Are Lying

LinkedIn Data Vendors Are Lying

As Daddy Pig from Peppa Pig says, I'm a little bit of an expert in everything, but I am particularly so with LinkedIn data and LinkedIn lawsuits. I am going to tell you how to get yourself and your company sued by LinkedIn when you use their data.

NinjaPear Gets Remarkably More Boring
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NinjaPear Gets Remarkably More Boring

Happy 250th, USA! As I get older, I tend to prefer the boring over the exciting. I'm happy to share that NinjaPear is even more boring today because we have nothing new to announce, just boring optimizations. 1. NinjaPear is now boringly faster. The Company Details Endpoint and

AI SEO HALVED our organic traffic
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AI SEO HALVED our organic traffic

The pipe dream is having LLMs to perform SEO content creation autonomously, and I did just that that and watched my ranking drop off the cliff and my organic traffic halved. This article is written entirely by me without any AI or help. I'm going to tell you

Introducing NinjaPear Battlecards
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Introducing NinjaPear Battlecards

I think the guys at Klue and Crayon should use NinjaPear's data to power their Battlecards feature. I mean it. The next best option is to use NinjaPear Battlecards app. Because at the end of the day, we're a seasoned B2B data outfit, and that means

NinjaPear API V2 - Now 400% faster
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NinjaPear API V2 - Now 400% faster

I really should be doing more marketing instead of iterating on the product. But here I am, with a huge performance improvement to the time it takes for the Person Profile Endpoint and the Company Details endpoint to perform a live enrichment. Here are the new speeds: API Endpoint Average

Introducing API Playground (and YouTube Monitoring!)
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Introducing API Playground (and YouTube Monitoring!)

API Playground in the Dashboard I'm pleased to share that there is now an API playground in the dashboard. Essentially, it mirrors the user interface of Postman, except your API keys are automatically populated in the playground. This is how the API playground looks like: Really, I built

Introducing the Employee Search Endpoint
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Introducing the Employee Search Endpoint

I am happy to introduce the Employee Search Endpoint to you today. The Employee Search API Endpoint takes a company and a job role and returns a list of employees that best match this job role. This is perfect for people looking for a list of the right people to

Introducing Supportive - Profiles in your Gmail
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Introducing Supportive - Profiles in your Gmail

There are 3 ways to get NinjaPear data today: via API, via AI (MCP server), or via the Prospector (dashboard spreadsheet UI). Today, I'm very excited to share that you can now get profile data within your company email, starting with Gmail, with the Supportive extension in Chrome

Introducing Prospector Spreadsheets
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Introducing Prospector Spreadsheets

You can now pull all of NinjaPear's data through the Prospector Spreadsheets without running any code. Here is a quick demo of how it works: I designed and built the NinjaPear Prospector because it bothered me that most NinjaPear users are API users. Surely there are people who

Updates to Rate Limits and Caching
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Updates to Rate Limits and Caching

I pushed a huge NinjaPear update yesterday, and it has four parts to it. I will talk about two items in this update for the first part that will immediately affect your use of NinjaPear: caching and rate limits. Rate Limits Let's start with the bad news first.

What Is Proxycurl API Now in 2026? I'm the founder.
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What Is Proxycurl API Now in 2026? I'm the founder.

I am the founder of Proxycurl, and if you do not know it yet, I have shut Proxycurl down and NinjaPear is what comes after Proxycurl. If you are searching for proxycurl api in 2026, the practical question is not whether it still works. It does not. The practical question

Steven Goh | CEO Alex Meyer
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Introducing Work Email Data (+ other QOL improvements)
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Introducing Work Email Data (+ other QOL improvements)

I am happy to introduce to you today a new NinjaPear API Endpoint—the Work Email Endpoint. The Work Email Endpoint takes in a person's name and the company where they work, for which a work email is returned on a best-effort basis. This API Endpoint takes special

Is Scraping LinkedIn Legal in 2026? (I Was Sued by LinkedIn)
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Is Scraping LinkedIn Legal in 2026? (I Was Sued by LinkedIn)

If you're asking is scraping LinkedIn legal in 2026, here's the short answer: public scraping is not automatically criminal after hiQ, but building a business on LinkedIn data is still not safe. Those are different statements. I learned that the expensive way. I was sued by

Steven Goh | CEO Alex Meyer
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Introducing the Similar People Endpoint
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Introducing the Similar People Endpoint

Recently, a customer reached out to ask if we could help with the following use case: we would provide a small input set (say, 5 email addresses) and expect the system to return a larger set (e.g., 50) of similar profiles with enriched data. I'm happy to

Introducing Person Profile Endpoint (Also: 1000 Users/66K ARR 🎉)
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Introducing Person Profile Endpoint (Also: 1000 Users/66K ARR 🎉)

I am happy to share a new API endpoint with you today: the Person Profile API Endpoint. The Person Profile Endpoint takes a work email, a name+company, or a role+company combination and returns a full and detailed person profile, including his/her work history, education history, and public

Introducing Company Funding and Updates Endpoints
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Introducing Company Funding and Updates Endpoints

I am happy to share today that the Company API just got supercharged with two new endpoints and more data points returned. We are on a consistent and relentless march towards being the ultimate ethically sourced data provider of company and competitive intelligence. Today, I am happy to introduce to

Introducing Company Monitor and Updates API
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Introducing Company Monitor and Updates API

I'm happy to share that the Company Monitor and the Updates API which powers the Company Monitor are now generally available on NinjaPear. Company Monitor (and the Updates API) takes a set of websites, tracks them, and provides you with updates from their blog posts, their social media