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▶ 35:43 · AI Agents · AI agents will drive 1000x+ web usage, requiring new incentive models to keep web open
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Kleiner Perkins

Ex-Twitter CEO on Why AI Needs a New Internet | Parag Agrawal

2026-07-27 · 3 company · 8 thematic
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parag agrawal

Former Twitter engineer, CTO, and CEO; now building Parallel — web infrastructure for AI agents to keep the open web open. Spent over a decade at Twitter scaling systems and ML infrastructure.

juben

Kleiner Perkins investor who led the seed round for Roadrunner and hosted the fellow founders podcast. Previously worked with the founders during their KP fellowship in 2021.

episode shorts · 4

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The Missing Incentive in AI

The “Parallel” Web

The Model-First Mindset

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