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Former Twitter CEO Building AI Web Infrastructure, Waymo’s Freeway Expansion | Nov 14, 2025

2025-11-15 · 2 company · 4 thematic
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parag agarwal

Former CEO of Twitter (over a decade at the company, rising from engineer to CTO to CEO). Founded Parallel Web Systems two years ago to build web infrastructure optimized for AI agents, recently raised $100M at a $740M valuation.

sid sheth

30-year semiconductor veteran; started career at Intel, previously built a $3B business at Inphi (sold to Marvell). Founded D-Matrix in 2019 to build inference-specific accelerators; recently raised $275M at a $2B valuation targeting enterprise AI workloads.

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