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

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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 Twit...

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