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@travers00

// building a parallel web for AIs // cofounder @p0 //

San Francisco, CA Katılım Ağustos 2021
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Travers@travers00·
was a blast sitting down with @vanlancker and sharing a bit more about what we're up to at @p0
Willem@vanlancker

Following rapid growth, a $100M Series B, and a slate of new launches, I sat down with Parallel co-founder @travers00. @p0 is building core search infrastructure for the agentic web: systems that enable AI to retrieve, structure, and reason over information across the internet with speed, accuracy, and reliability. I joined Travers at Parallel’s new Palo Alto office for a wide-ranging conversation on: > The pace going from launch last August to becoming critical infrastructure powering production workflows at companies like Notion, Harvey, Granola, and more. > Why Parallel sees the future of search as far beyond “ten blue links,” toward systems built for retrieval, reasoning, monitoring, and computation. > The changing nature of the web itself: its economics, openness, and what happens as agents become primary users. > The artistry and legacy of internet history shaping the company: Olivetti typewriters, Douglas Hofstadler, Lloyd Shapley, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Google’s Search Box, and how it inspired programs like the Museum of the Human Web. This is an extensive and wide ranging look into one of the most interesting sectors of the agentic web. We @terraincap feel lucky to have worked with Travers and the team since the start just two years ago. So much to do.

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Travers@travers00·
@rohansuri_ @NooksHQ the @NooksHQ team is truly building at the frontier - game changer for GTM and we've been so lucky to get to work closely with you all to bring this to life
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Rohan Suri@rohansuri_·
We just launched the most powerful agent harness for GTM @NooksHQ AI Assistant sits on top of the best frontier models and gives them the tools to actually run your GTM: - Messaging that's gotten replies and closed deals - Historical context on your prospects and accounts - An action layer connected to every tool you use Hand it an account → It builds the strategy. Let it run overnight→ Your team wakes up to outreach ready to send. This isn't a better chatbot. It's the execution layer where work happens.
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Willem@vanlancker·
Following rapid growth, a $100M Series B, and a slate of new launches, I sat down with Parallel co-founder @travers00. @p0 is building core search infrastructure for the agentic web: systems that enable AI to retrieve, structure, and reason over information across the internet with speed, accuracy, and reliability. I joined Travers at Parallel’s new Palo Alto office for a wide-ranging conversation on: > The pace going from launch last August to becoming critical infrastructure powering production workflows at companies like Notion, Harvey, Granola, and more. > Why Parallel sees the future of search as far beyond “ten blue links,” toward systems built for retrieval, reasoning, monitoring, and computation. > The changing nature of the web itself: its economics, openness, and what happens as agents become primary users. > The artistry and legacy of internet history shaping the company: Olivetti typewriters, Douglas Hofstadler, Lloyd Shapley, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Google’s Search Box, and how it inspired programs like the Museum of the Human Web. This is an extensive and wide ranging look into one of the most interesting sectors of the agentic web. We @terraincap feel lucky to have worked with Travers and the team since the start just two years ago. So much to do.
Parag Agrawal@paraga

We raised a Series B led by @sequoia at a $2 billion valuation and I’m excited to welcome @andrew__reed to our board. All our existing investors doubled down: @kleinerperkins, @IndexVentures, @khoslaventures, @firstround, @sparkcapital, @AbstractVC, and @terraincap.

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Parag Agrawal@paraga·
Thanks @benthompson for such a wide-ranging and fun conversation. Read/listen if you want to go deep on business models around content for an agentic web.
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YB@yb_effect·
@paraga This Stratechery post feels more relevant every month
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Parag Agrawal@paraga·
Yes! For humans, ads was the most efficient business model due to the human cognitive overhead with payments. With agents, direct payments will work much better. This is why I’m so optimistic about high quality content thriving on the web as agents take over.
Patrick Collison@patrickc

Cool release from @p0. I think this use-case (agents paying content creators for access via @mpp) will be very big. Micropayment walls haven't worked (as Clay Shirky anticipated many years ago) because of human cognitive overhead, but agents can make arbitrarily granular determinations without decision fatigue.

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Patrick Collison@patrickc·
Cool release from @p0. I think this use-case (agents paying content creators for access via @mpp) will be very big. Micropayment walls haven't worked (as Clay Shirky anticipated many years ago) because of human cognitive overhead, but agents can make arbitrarily granular determinations without decision fatigue.
Parallel Web Systems@p0

Today we're launching Index: a platform for content owners to understand how AI agents use their work, and earn revenue when they do. Our first partners include @TheAtlantic, @FortuneMagazine, @PRNewswire, @PitchBook, @ZoomInfo, @Tracxn, @RocketReachCo, @enigma_data, @fiscal_ai,

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Nathan Baschez
Nathan Baschez@nbaschez·
Introducing Roughdraft! A new open source project designed to make collaboration with agents better. The idea is to bring commenting and suggested changes to markdown (e.g. plan docs) in a nice interface. Free, local, etc. 👉 roughdraft.md 👈
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Travers@travers00·
@meetgranola power user of this feature. so well built and designed
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Granola@meetgranola·
No more frantic Googling right before a meeting. Introducing Briefs. Granola searches your emails, the web, and previous meeting notes. Then writes 3 bullets with just what you need to know. Join your next meeting feeling prepared.
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Josh Kopelman
Josh Kopelman@joshk·
I’ve been in the internet business for three decades. In that time, I’ve watched the web get built, break and rebuild itself around getting humans to pay attention. Ads, subscriptions, affiliate links — the whole economic infrastructure of the web was designed to capture and
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Parag Agrawal@paraga·
We started @p0 based on the belief that AI agents will use the web 1000x more than humans, and we need new tech and business models as a result. We are already seeing agents scale on our infrastructure, and this is the starting point for a new business model for the web.
Parallel Web Systems@p0

Today we're launching Index: a platform for content owners to understand how AI agents use their work, and earn revenue when they do. Our first partners include @TheAtlantic, @FortuneMagazine, @PRNewswire, @PitchBook, @ZoomInfo, @Tracxn, @RocketReachCo, @enigma_data, @fiscal_ai,

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Jeff Weinstein@jeff_weinstein·
Content owners can finally charge agents for accessing their site. Congrats Parallel on launching Index with such great partners! (All the micro money parts built using @mpp via @stripe.)
Parallel Web Systems@p0

Today we're launching Index: a platform for content owners to understand how AI agents use their work, and earn revenue when they do. Our first partners include @TheAtlantic, @FortuneMagazine, @PRNewswire, @PitchBook, @ZoomInfo, @Tracxn, @RocketReachCo, @enigma_data, @fiscal_ai,

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Ed Ludlow
Ed Ludlow@EdLudlow·
Parag Agrawal on the show today! His startup Parallel launches “Index” — a new system designed to compensate publishers and creators when AI agents use their content. @paraga
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Travers@travers00·
@sjgadler this is really important and cool work - excited to see you launch this @sjgadler
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Steven Adler
Steven Adler@sjgadler·
Some personal news: I've started a new AI safety standards org, and our first two standards are out today. We're called Guidelight, co-founded with fellow ex-OpenAI safety researcher, Page Hedley. (1/n)
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Travers@travers00·
@packyM incredibly lucky to have you join the index - excited for what's ahead!
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Packy McCormick
Packy McCormick@packyM·
I've been really impressed with what Parallel is building, and what my friends Nick and Carra are doing on the publisher side. "Content that's uniquely valuable, hard to replace, or used in high-value agent work earns more." Excited to partner and experiment with them.
Parallel Web Systems@p0

Today we're launching Index: a platform for content owners to understand how AI agents use their work, and earn revenue when they do. Our first partners include @TheAtlantic, @FortuneMagazine, @PRNewswire, @PitchBook, @ZoomInfo, @Tracxn, @RocketReachCo, @enigma_data, @fiscal_ai,

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Travers@travers00·
RT @carrawu: Excited to finally share what I've been working on at @p0 -- it represents the culmination of a thesis I've had for >2 years a…
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Andrew Reed
Andrew Reed@andrew__reed·
Today @p0 launched Index, a platform for content owners (with a wonderful set of launch partners). If you love the internet like I do, building a sustainable economic model that incentivizes and rewards quality content matters to an enormous degree. Especially in the agent era.
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