Parag Agrawal

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Founders in Arms · Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Web with Parag Agrawal · 21 Nov 2025 podcast

The market today is like people want to buy tools for agents because an agent is defined as a model with a set of tools and people give it a web search tool.

I think what I'm excited about for next year is I think more and more of the market will move towards sub-agents.

So people will call us as a search agent to go do with more autonomy more work than a single tool call, which is very constraining.

And the next thing I'm excited about, which is another product we shipped last week, is this thing of the web transitioning from pull as it is today to push.

So you should be able to say when X happens in the world, call me so that me or my agent can take an action.

We did a week ago.

Tell us about Parallel.

We started Parallel two years ago.

The notion that I got obsessed with was that everything we've built on the web over several decades is going to become irrelevant when the primary consumer of the web goes from being a human to an agent.

And so two years ago, I got obsessed with this notion of like when we were building consumer products, how were we building it?

We're thinking about a user, looking at a device, what experience to create for them.

them, what inputs they would provide, what to show them.

And if there's going to be an agent between us and a human, how you architect every piece of technology on the web.

Changes completely.

And so we got obsessed with that idea.

Uh, and the second thing that really pushed me and the team over the line was like once you get obsessed with it, the very next obvious leap of faith is that an agents are going to use the web several orders of magnitude more than humans ever have, because we've been limited by our time and attention.

Agents are limited by the number of GPUs we can build and deploy for productive purposes.

Or non-productive purposes.

So uh and that got really uh that was really fun to like now imagine that we're building infrastructure which is going to operate at orders of magnitude bigger than

web scale as we think of it today.

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