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Jaden Schaefer

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AI HR
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 HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

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

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

So it's kind of interesting, right?

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

You I think you oftentimes hear 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 HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

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

AI HR
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 HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

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

AI HR
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 HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

That's a quote from him.

AI HR
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 HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

trying to do.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

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

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

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

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

Randall also is new to Benchmark.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

He joined it just in October.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

He was at Kleiner Parkins before.

AI HR
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,

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

everyday workers should have a quote-unquote AI superpower.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

So that's kind of, I think, why they made this investment here.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And of course, $50 million is a big lead.