will bryk

T2 · manager / operator

Co-founder and CEO of Exa, an AI-native search engine and web-data platform built for developers and AI applications.

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Exa targets search infrastructure for agentic workflows

Exa's opportunity is framed around deep, complex search queries that businesses and agents need but consumer search does not handle well. If agents trigger far more searches than humans, Exa can become an infrastructure layer rather than a niche search product.

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MEDwill bryk·a16z·2 months ago· position
Exa sees agentic search outgrowing Google Ads
Exa's founder argues that agent-driven search demand can create an economy larger than today's ad-supported consumer search. The upside depends on machine queries growing by orders of magnitude and requiring purpose-built retrieval infrastructure.
"if you just play out the numbers we we think it will be bigger than Google Ads in 20 30... But yeah, it's just the numbers here are insane."
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HIGHwill bryk·a16z·2 months ago· position
Exa targets search infrastructure for agentic workflows
Exa's opportunity is framed around deep, complex search queries that businesses and agents need but consumer search does not handle well. If agents trigger far more searches than humans, Exa can become an infrastructure layer rather than a niche search product.
"there is an opportunity to build like a new type of search engine that's meant for extremely like deep complex queries that businesses really care about and agents really care abo…"
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