The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Five Predictions for a World of Agents | The Ads Business Model Will Die | Biggest Lessons from Working with Elon Musk at Twitter with Parag Agrawal, Parallel
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Parag Agrawal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Parallel, building web search infrastructure for AI agents.
Parallel has announced $230M in funding from Sequoia, Khosla, and First Round Capital. Previously, he was CEO of Twitter, succeeding Jack Dorsey after serving as CTO and becoming the company's first Distinguished Engineer.
AGENDA:
What Breaks When Agents Search the Web 1,000x More?
Speed, Cost or Accuracy: What Do Agents Really Need?
Will Tiny Models Catch Today's Most Powerful AI?
Is Model Routing a Commodity?
Is Amazon Making a Mistake by Blocking AI Agents?
Does the Ads Business Model Die in a World of Agents?
Can You Pay Publishers Without Killing Your Margins?
Why Parag Wants a Race to the Bottom on Price
What Stops Your AI Agent Breaking the Rules to Get Results?
Why AI Hacks Should Embarrass the Labs
What Parag Saw Working With Elon Musk
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