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Parag Agrawal

Co-founder & CEO, Parallel Web

Search every verified Parag Agrawal interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Parag Agrawal, co-founder and CEO of Parallel, has recently discussed his company's work on building web search infrastructure designed for AI agents. In appearances at Supabase Select 2026 and Fully Connected 2026, he stated that agents will become the web's primary users, potentially using it a thousand times more than humans, and argued that this scale requires a fundamental redesign of existing search infrastructure. He also predicted that most web usage will shift from agents pulling content to content being pushed to them. Agrawal noted a partnership with Google Cloud to provide search for grounding Gemini models. Agrawal has also spoken about the limitations of current AI agents, saying that the main challenge is the "interface problem" of specifying tasks well enough for models to execute. He has argued that the traditional advertising-based business model does not work with agents, as they do not view ads, and described Parallel's approach as building an "AdSense for agents" that pays content owners based on their contribution to an agent's output. He also expressed concerns about model alignment not being adversary-proof and called some current efforts in that area "embarrassments."

Recent appearances

  • Agents Will Be the Web's Main Users | Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal

    October 12, 2026 · 📺 Supabase Library

    Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, now founder of Parallel, on the bet that AI agents will become the web's main users. Talking with Caryn Marooney of Coatue, Agrawal explains why search built for agents has to look nothing like search built for people, how the web could shift from agents pulling content to having it pushed to them, and how to decide whether a company is worth starting. Speakers: Parag Agrawal, Founder, Parallel Caryn Marooney, General Partner, Coatue Management Recorded at Supabase Select 2026 in San Francisco on October 2, 2026. All Select 2026 talks: https://select.supabas…

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  • Fully Connected 2026 | Day 2 Full Replay

    October 01, 2026 · 📺 CoreWeave

    The full Day 2 keynote from Fully Connected 2026, Built for Ambition: what it takes to keep going after it stops being fun. Start building on CoreWeave Forge, free: https://forge.coreweave.com Fully Connected 2026, all sessions: https://www.coreweave.com/fully-conne... Brian Venturo opens with where CoreWeave's ambition came from, a garage in New Jersey, a bet on GPUs, and the decision to build a cloud from a clean slate. Jon Jones sits down with Parag Agrawal, CEO of Parallel Web Systems and former CEO of Twitter, on building web search for agents and why the web is about to move from pu…

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  • The Ads Business Model Will Die & Lessons from Working with Elon at Twitter | Parag Agrawal

    September 26, 2026 · 📺 20VC with Harry Stebbings

    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. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:15 What Is Parallel? 02:43 How AI Agents Completely Change Web Search 05:29 Why Search for Agents Requires a New Compute Stack 07:23 How Agents Trade Off Accuracy, Latency and Cost 09:42 Where AI…

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  • Parallel’s Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents

    August 25, 2026 · 📺 Sequoia Capital

    Parag Agrawal is making a bet that goes against two decades of web search: agents will query the web a thousand times more than humans ever have, and the infrastructure built around human clicks is wrong for them. The former Twitter CEO, now founder and CEO of Parallel Web Systems, explains why Parallel treats human click data as a bug and trains on agent feedback instead. He unpacks the counterintuitive choice to ship a search agent before a search engine, building an index incrementally, and how the new Turbo product cut agentic search to 200 milliseconds. But the problem Parag keeps returni…

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  • The Web, Rebuilt for AI - Parag Agrawal (Founder at Parallel Web Systems)

    July 27, 2026 · 📺 Profound

    Parag Agrawal (Founder of Parallel) takes the stage to unpack the vision behind building a new company in the AI era and discuss how AI agents are radically shifting the digital landscape. From structural parallels between human web usage and today's AI-driven evolution, this session explores what it takes to build a company that is agent native. Key Timestamps: 00:37 – Why AI traffic will scale 1,000x beyond the limits of human attention 01:31 – The core engine driving large-scale search for AI startups and enterprises 02:34 – Autonomous background agents and the explosion of query workloa…

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  • Friends of Data: Tido Carriero (Cursor) Parag Agrawal, (Parallel); Tuhin Srivastava, (Baseten)

    July 21, 2026 · 📺 Hex

    Tido Carriero (Cursor); Parag Agrawal (Parallel Web Systems) and Tuhin Srivastava (Baseten) chat with Hex CEO Barry McCardel on everything around the state of data, hot takes on the industry, and their thoughts about what's next. Follow Tido -LinkedIn:   / tido-carriero   -X/Twitter: https://x.com/tidocarriero Follow Cursor -LinkedIn:   / cursorai   -X/Twitter: https://x.com/cursor_ai Follow Parag -LinkedIn:   / paragagr   -X/Twitter: https://x.com/paraga Follow Parallel Web Systems -LinkedIn:   / parallel-web   -X/Twitter: https://x.com/p0 Follow Tuhin -LinkedIn:   / tuhin-srivastava   -…

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  • Fireside Chat with Parag Agrawal, Founder & CEO of Parallel Web Systems | RAISE Summit 2026

    July 20, 2026 · 📺 RAISE Summit

    Parag Agrawal, Founder & CEO of Parallel Web Systems and former CEO of Twitter, joins Karim Jalbout (Konstellation Advisory) to discuss what the web looks like when AI is its biggest reader — and how Parallel is rebuilding web infrastructure for an AI-native internet. Recorded live on the Master Stage at the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, on July 9, 2026. Livestream powered by Cursor. RAISE Summit is Europe's leading AI gathering, bringing together 9,000+ founders, executives, investors, researchers and policymakers. Learn more: https://www.raisesummit.com Subscribe for every session from RAIS…

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  • Parag Agrawal (Parallel): What Does the AWS of Tomorrow Look Like?

    April 08, 2026 · 📺 Daytona

    Fireside: Parag Agrawal (Parallel) & Ivan Burazin (Daytona) Live from Daytona Compute Conference, Chase Center SF, March 9, 2026 The world’s businesses first reorganized around the web, then around cloud. Now they’re reorganizing around agents. That shift isn’t just new apps. It’s a new infrastructure stack. In this fireside chat, Parag Agrawal breaks down the core primitives every serious agent system will need: LLMs for reasoning, execution environments, web access and search, and secure connections to private tools and data. We’ll explore what changes when search is built for agents instea…

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  • Parag Agrawal - Parallel

    February 04, 2026 · 📺 Founders You Should Know

    This pitch is part of our invite-only Founders You Should Know startup showcase. Apply to attend one of our shows person: https://forms.gle/YM73r9KUCQMTjvn97 Parallel builds web data APIs for AI agents, turning web search and complex human knowledge tasks into programmable, business-ready infrastructure. Founder: Parag Agrawal (  / paragagr  ) Learn more @ https://parallel.ai/

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  • Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Web with Parag Agrawal

    November 21, 2025 · 📺 Founders in Arms Podcast

    Parag Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Parallel, building infrastructure for the agentic web. Previously CEO of Twitter, Parag now leads a company architecting how AI agents will interact with the open web at orders of magnitude beyond current human scale. Two years after founding in stealth mode, Parallel recently announced a $100M Series B co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures. What you'll learn: Why everything built for human web consumption will become irrelevant when agents become the primary users How Parallel's APIs enable agents to search, fetch, and monitor the web with u…

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  • Parag Agrawal (Parallel Web Systems) at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit

    November 14, 2025 · 📺 Newcomer AI Summits

    Parag Agrawal, the former CEO of Twitter, is among those building infrastructure for AI agents: his startup Parallel Web Systems, which is building a web API tailored for agents, announced a new $100 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures in his on-stage appearance. Special thanks to our sponsors IREN, Oracle, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Fluidstack, Crusoe, Nebius, Wilson Sonsini, SamsungNEXT, Brex, Alexa Fund, MongoDB, Deloitte, Rackhouse Venture Capital, HumanX, Sapphire Ventures, Stripe, and Dell Technologies Capital. 👇 Watch more from The Newcomer Po…

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  • Former Twitter CEO is Building the Web for AI

    November 14, 2025 · 📺 The Information

    Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's new startup, Parallel Web Systems, aims to build a web infrastructure specifically for AI agents. He explains why the internet, originally "built for humans," must evolve for its new primary user. TITV airs on YouTube, X and LinkedIn at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Or check us out wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to: The Information on YouTube:    / @theinformation   The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/subscr... (Agrawal photo via Getty Images)

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