Following rapid growth, a $100M Series B, and a wave of new launches, we sat down with Parallel co-founder Travers Nisbet at the company’s new Palo Alto office to discuss the emergence of the agentic web and the infrastructure being built to support it.
We discuss why the future of search looks less like “ten blue links” and more like programmable computation over the world’s information, how companies like Notion, Harvey, and Granola are already building on Parallel, and why the next era of the web may require entirely new interfaces, incentives, and markets.
The conversation also wanders through internet history, Borges, Douglas Hofstadter, Olivetti typewriters, early Google, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, and the strange optimism of the early web that continues to shape the company today…