Dmitry Dragilev

Dmitry Dragilev is a four-time acquired SaaS founder and SEO expert. He grew Polar from zero to 40M+ monthly pageviews before its acquisition by Google in 2014, founded JustReachOut.io (an AI-powered PR outreach tool used by 5,000+ businesses, acquired in 2020), and built SmallBiz.Tools and TopicRanker — both acquired by Semrush (2023 and 2025). Since 2009, he has helped companies like Dow Jones, Realtor.com, Nextiva, Pipedrive, and Backlinko rank #1 on Google for their most competitive keywords. Dmitry is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and a contributor to Forbes, Entrepreneur, TechCrunch, Moz, and WIRED.