#55: Hamlet Batista
In this week’s episode, we talk with Hamlet Batista, Founder and CEO of Ranksense. We talk about his origins in the Dominican Republic, his background as a Software Developer and Systems Administrator, his early business successes and failures, and how he developed his convictions in automation and making things more efficient. We dive into his immigration to the United States in 2010 on a special visa, what led him to found his company Ranksense, and how he knew he had the entrepreneurial bug. Lastly, we discuss Python, whether or not you need to know it to do SEO, how automation can help you be successful as an SEO, as well as the limitations of machine learning and which types of things can’t or won’t be automated for some time.