Massive placed #217 overall and #16 in the AI & Data category on Inc.'s 2026 list of America's fastest-growing private companies, as a profitable team of under 25 people.
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As-told-to essay (by Ana Altchek) in which Jason explains how running Massive from Prague, with regular trips to NYC and SF, helps him focus while the company grew over 4x.
I'm a tech founder who spent years in big cities. Living in Prague helps me focus and avoid FOMO.
“In order to keep up with everything that's coming out right now, you have to have no job.”Learning new AI skills has become like a second job for software engineers
Jason joined Jason Calacanis's show with Matthew Berman and Ryan Yannelli to discuss OpenClaw's path to consumers, and demoed ClawPod browsing the web through Massive's network.
When Will OpenClaw Go Mainstream? (This Week in Startups E2252)
“Mitigate first, investigate second.”Meta and Other Tech Firms Put Restrictions on Use of OpenClaw Over Security Fears
Brex's newsletter to 60,000 businesses featured Massive as an ethically sourced, opt-in residential proxy network, which Jason framed as infrastructure for the AI era.
Gundo Goes Nuclear (Brex newsletter)
POLITICO's Digital Future Daily (Aaron Mak) covered SF Crawl, co-hosted by Massive and Apify, quoting Jason on AI-era scraping lawsuits and Big Tech's influence over web standards bodies.
How to stop AI from eating the open Internet
“for mastering the fundamentals and achieving top-notch performance in just one year”Proxy Service Awards 2025: Newcomer of the Year
Proxyway's annual benchmark put Massive #1 for US residential success rate (99.87%), #1 for ISP proxy speed and lowest residential fraud scores.
Proxy Market Research 2025
Smartech Daily (Greg Grzesiak) tested six providers and ranked Massive #1 for scraping Amazon, with a 90% success rate ahead of NetNut and Oxylabs.
Top 6 Proxies for Scraping Amazon in 2025
“Massive stands out by being very upfront about what it does.”Massive Proxies: In-Depth Review & Performance Tests
Proxyway's recap of Zyte's Extract Summit in Austin (Oct 9-10, 2024) covers the proxy panel where Jason discussed IP sourcing, proxy types, geolocation challenges, ethics and IP scoring.
Extract Summit 2024: A Recap (proxy panel with Jason Grad)
Zyte (Extract Summit)
Recording of the Extract Summit 2024 panel moderated by Zyte's Shane Evans, where Jason explained how proxy networks are built and how residential, datacenter and mobile proxies differ.
The Future of Proxy Technology: Trends and Innovations in Residential, Mobile & DataCenter Proxies
Grit Daily listed Massive among residential proxy providers to watch in 2025. The list was 5 providers when Jason shared it and has since been updated to 8.
Residential Proxy Providers to Watch in 2025
The Web Scraping Club
The Web Scraping Club's monthly proxy pricing comparison included Massive as residential proxy prices kept falling. Jason highlighted Massive as one of the best-performing yet most budget-friendly options.
Proxy Pricing Playbook - September 2024
“Grad has been part of a group of entrepreneurs who made it their mission to help team members and colleagues in Ukraine after the war started.”Crypto Continues to Aid Ukrainians as Russian Invasion Escalates
Entrepreneur
Jason joined Entrepreneur's Action and Ambition podcast to talk about Massive's growth, hiring during hypergrowth, and lessons for other founders.
Jason Grad on Action and Ambition (Entrepreneur podcast with Andrew Medal)
“Decentralization in blockchains is paramount and Massive has since emerged as a hyper-growth startup offering Decentralization as a Service (DaaS).”Massive Looks to "Decentralization as a Service" as Answer to the Processing Shortage
“Out of 500+ companies that raised Seed & Series A rounds over the past year, Will Reed named Massive a top employer of choice based on mission, culture, growth trajectory and founding leadership.”Top 100 Early Stage Company To Work For In 2022
“Consumers may not even realize that the platform they are using is powered by a crypto product or blockchain, but the benefits of this new generation of technology will be obvious.”Our initial thesis: Building bridges to crypto for the masses
“The Webby Awards is the Internet's most respected symbol of success. The 25th [annual awards] received nearly 13,500 entries from nearly all 50 states and 70 countries worldwide.”Webby honorees, Experimental & Innovation
“A couple dozen tech entrepreneurs from and who live in Ukraine … set up offices in bordering countries, started running evacuations, and started sending humanitarian aid.”Massive CEO on fundraising efforts for Ukraine
“Jason Grad, co-founder and CEO of Massive, … raised more than $85,000 for food, water, and medical supplies by soliciting donations through an Instagram post.”Crypto savants bred in Ukraine build a lifeline back home
“Imagine paying for digital services, generating loyalty points, donating to charity, or even making some extra money by leveraging the unused computing resources on your laptop.”Building the behind-the-scenes tech revolutionizing Wall Street
“If your readers decide they do not want to be tracked by the platform, they can still pay you for the opportunity to read your piece.”Here's why you're going to love web3
“It could essentially be the same thing as projects that use distributed computing (the aforementioned SETI), with the difference that we get something in return for our computing power … and energy.”Massive wants to rent our PCs' computing power in exchange for apps and services
“Part of the company's motivation seems to be dismantling the … reliance on nosy marketing practices, thus reducing the amount of personal information users unwittingly give away.”Massive wants to rent your compute power
“I thought it was going to be one of those weeks when not much happened, but instead … we have three of the coolest funding rounds we've talked about all year.”Equity podcast, episode 451
“And then, earlier this week, we announced a lead investment in a company called Massive. This one is really interesting.”The Scoop podcast, episode 80
“Requiring internet users to pay … or deal with ads has been the approach traditionally used to generate revenue [but] can … be too disruptive or result in users not consuming services.”Massive raises $11M to change how internet users pay
“The rewards Massive proposes aren't money as such; they lean more toward offering things like in-game items and virtual currency to spend in those games.”Massive wants to be the Airbnb of computers: people will buy the computing power you're not using on your PC
“Startups are often questions … Massive is a good example: What if users could pay for apps or services, not with money or attention, but with their spare compute power?”Rent your spare compute power to pay for apps
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