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Jaden Schaefer

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AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And I so yeah, no, you know, no shocker that Gumloop is doing really well, I see a ton of value.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And this is an area that is growing very fast as I'm seeing with my own startup.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

So according to Broder Erbas, because essentially what happens, like what he says happens inside of a company and why they grew so fast.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

He says that someone is going to build like one of the employees inside of a company builds one and then another team inside of the organization is going to like copy it and they modify it.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And then basically it just like spreads like wildfire inside of the organization.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

So it's kind of interesting, right?

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

I think you oftentimes hear of people creating a tool and then it kind of gets out of the organization and another organization uses it or a template or some sort of resource.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And that's how a lot of these companies grow.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

It's interesting to see that for them, it's like one person in a company uses it and they basically are...

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

kind of the person that spreads it to the whole organization.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

He said that, you know, once someone like this starts building more agents, then suddenly the whole company becomes AI native.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

That's a quote from him.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

So I think right now, you know, that vision of putting AI into the hands of every employee is what they're trying to do.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

trying to do.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And that's what drew Benchmark's general partner, Everett Randall, to them.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

He's the one that kind of spearheaded the investment into them.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

Randall also is new to Benchmark.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

He joined it just in October.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

He was at Kleiner Parkins before.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

So, you know, Randall's been at a lot of these top VCs and he believes that, you know,