Ryan O'Hara
@ryanohara.bsky.social
Founder of 🔥Pitchfire. I talk about building #paidprospecting, #startups, and football(Patriots are my team), movies, and music. Born in MA, based in NH.
I was thinking the same thing
August 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I was thinking the same thing
I started a company that helps fight this... you can thread the email to stop follow up automation.. and then charge them money to hear back from you. If you feel like fighting the good fight... chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pitch...
Pitchfire: The Paid Prospecting Platform
Pitchfire is the world's leading paid prospecting platform. B2B go-to-market teams are struggling to build pipeline. Start your paid prospecting journey and build pipeline today.
www.pitchfire.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I started a company that helps fight this... you can thread the email to stop follow up automation.. and then charge them money to hear back from you. If you feel like fighting the good fight... chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pitch...
Is Big Red spicy like the gum?
April 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Is Big Red spicy like the gum?
If you don't care about money and want to work for free, I'll hire you for $0.
If you do care about money, prove it.
Start using our Chrome plugin when you get prospected.
If you do care about money, prove it.
Start using our Chrome plugin when you get prospected.
March 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you don't care about money and want to work for free, I'll hire you for $0.
If you do care about money, prove it.
Start using our Chrome plugin when you get prospected.
If you do care about money, prove it.
Start using our Chrome plugin when you get prospected.
So with that...the average buyer gets paid $63 to respond on our paid prospecting platform.
At this point, you're basically throwing away money if are getting prospected in B2B...and you're not being paid for it.
At this point, you're basically throwing away money if are getting prospected in B2B...and you're not being paid for it.
March 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So with that...the average buyer gets paid $63 to respond on our paid prospecting platform.
At this point, you're basically throwing away money if are getting prospected in B2B...and you're not being paid for it.
At this point, you're basically throwing away money if are getting prospected in B2B...and you're not being paid for it.
🔥 30% of those messages will be written by AI.
🔥 73% of all cold emails are being automated.
🔥 Only 1/220 of those will turn into a meeting.
🔥 Half of sales reps are doing over 6-15 touches if a prospect ignores them.
🔥 73% of all cold emails are being automated.
🔥 Only 1/220 of those will turn into a meeting.
🔥 Half of sales reps are doing over 6-15 touches if a prospect ignores them.
March 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🔥 30% of those messages will be written by AI.
🔥 73% of all cold emails are being automated.
🔥 Only 1/220 of those will turn into a meeting.
🔥 Half of sales reps are doing over 6-15 touches if a prospect ignores them.
🔥 73% of all cold emails are being automated.
🔥 Only 1/220 of those will turn into a meeting.
🔥 Half of sales reps are doing over 6-15 touches if a prospect ignores them.
The average person will get prospected over 800 times this year.
March 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The average person will get prospected over 800 times this year.
Skip all this silliness and just use 🔥 paid prospecting. It's cheaper, more ethical, and 74x more efficient than normal prospecting. www.pitchfire.com
Pitchfire: The Paid Prospecting Platform
Pitchfire is the world's leading paid prospecting platform. B2B go-to-market teams are struggling to build pipeline. Start your paid prospecting journey and build pipeline today.
www.pitchfire.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Skip all this silliness and just use 🔥 paid prospecting. It's cheaper, more ethical, and 74x more efficient than normal prospecting. www.pitchfire.com
No matter how you spin it, the point is this... the internet is not the Wild West anymore. LinkedIn has a right to protect their data... and control what their users are allowed to do.
They aren't going anywhere. So what can you do?
They aren't going anywhere. So what can you do?
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
No matter how you spin it, the point is this... the internet is not the Wild West anymore. LinkedIn has a right to protect their data... and control what their users are allowed to do.
They aren't going anywhere. So what can you do?
They aren't going anywhere. So what can you do?
Since scrapping is considered not a violation of the CFAA by the courts from the vendor side, LinkedIn can do two things...
1. They can stop those companies' LinkedIn pages.
2. They can go after their users since LinkedIn is allowed to make their own terms of service.
1. They can stop those companies' LinkedIn pages.
2. They can go after their users since LinkedIn is allowed to make their own terms of service.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Since scrapping is considered not a violation of the CFAA by the courts from the vendor side, LinkedIn can do two things...
1. They can stop those companies' LinkedIn pages.
2. They can go after their users since LinkedIn is allowed to make their own terms of service.
1. They can stop those companies' LinkedIn pages.
2. They can go after their users since LinkedIn is allowed to make their own terms of service.
But April 2022...the original ruling was reaffirmed, meaning vendors scrapping off LinkedIn did not violate the CFAA.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
But April 2022...the original ruling was reaffirmed, meaning vendors scrapping off LinkedIn did not violate the CFAA.
The Supreme Court vacated the ruling and sent it back to the 9th Circuit to reconsider a new ruling from a case called Van Buren vs. United States.
It was a weird case involving a police officer scrapping data from a database for personal use.
It was a weird case involving a police officer scrapping data from a database for personal use.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Supreme Court vacated the ruling and sent it back to the 9th Circuit to reconsider a new ruling from a case called Van Buren vs. United States.
It was a weird case involving a police officer scrapping data from a database for personal use.
It was a weird case involving a police officer scrapping data from a database for personal use.
Linkedin gets a ton of traffic from search, and can't afford to lose these companies as traffic sources...so that was that.
All was quiet...until....the courts got involved again in 2021.
All was quiet...until....the courts got involved again in 2021.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Linkedin gets a ton of traffic from search, and can't afford to lose these companies as traffic sources...so that was that.
All was quiet...until....the courts got involved again in 2021.
All was quiet...until....the courts got involved again in 2021.
Linkedin appealed it...but in 2019, the 9th Court of Appeals upheld the ruling saying that profiles on Linkedin are public data.
They argued that if they were going to allow Google and Bing to scrape profiles to come up in search results...then it must be public data.
They argued that if they were going to allow Google and Bing to scrape profiles to come up in search results...then it must be public data.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Linkedin appealed it...but in 2019, the 9th Court of Appeals upheld the ruling saying that profiles on Linkedin are public data.
They argued that if they were going to allow Google and Bing to scrape profiles to come up in search results...then it must be public data.
They argued that if they were going to allow Google and Bing to scrape profiles to come up in search results...then it must be public data.
hiQ decided to fight it in 2017.
They argued that Linkedin profiles are considered "public data"...and the injection was upheld...allowing them to continue to operate.
They argued that Linkedin profiles are considered "public data"...and the injection was upheld...allowing them to continue to operate.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
hiQ decided to fight it in 2017.
They argued that Linkedin profiles are considered "public data"...and the injection was upheld...allowing them to continue to operate.
They argued that Linkedin profiles are considered "public data"...and the injection was upheld...allowing them to continue to operate.
SalesLoft famously pivoted away from their plugin to sales engagement (even got investment from LinkedIn).
Rapportive, a Gmail plugin that would share a person's LI profile when you hover over their email, got shut down then acquired by LinkedIn and became the Sales Nav plugin team.
Rapportive, a Gmail plugin that would share a person's LI profile when you hover over their email, got shut down then acquired by LinkedIn and became the Sales Nav plugin team.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
SalesLoft famously pivoted away from their plugin to sales engagement (even got investment from LinkedIn).
Rapportive, a Gmail plugin that would share a person's LI profile when you hover over their email, got shut down then acquired by LinkedIn and became the Sales Nav plugin team.
Rapportive, a Gmail plugin that would share a person's LI profile when you hover over their email, got shut down then acquired by LinkedIn and became the Sales Nav plugin team.
Linkedin wanted to protect their data/users, so they sent a cease and desist letter saying that hiQ was violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Dozens of companies had received things like this over the years.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Linkedin wanted to protect their data/users, so they sent a cease and desist letter saying that hiQ was violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Dozens of companies had received things like this over the years.
The idea was that when people applied for jobs, and get hired from other companies, it would be annoying to keep the data clean, so using updates on LinkedIn would make it easier to clean up your ATS for hiQ customers.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The idea was that when people applied for jobs, and get hired from other companies, it would be annoying to keep the data clean, so using updates on LinkedIn would make it easier to clean up your ATS for hiQ customers.