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Jaden Schaefer

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

But basically, they're just trying to help automate some of the more tedious parts of a job with AI.

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

When they first launched, I think it was very ambitious and it was definitely a lot more experimental.

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

And I remember seeing this company come out of the gate and

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

Uh, it's, you know, something that was ambitious, but I didn't really know if they're going to be able to pull this off.

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

I think that has changed a lot.

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

I've been impressed.

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

Um, at the time back then, there was actually a bunch of other companies that were doing demos and stuff, and some of them did not make it.

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

But Gumloop has done a pretty good job.

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

They're used by Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, um,

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

Instacart, Opendoor, a bunch of other of these big players are actually using them.

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

And they essentially deploy agents that are doing complex stuff, multi step workflows, and you don't need an engineer.

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

So instead of having to write the code, you can just build these agents visually, similar to what I'm working on with AI box.ai, my own startup.

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.