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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 2026-09-26 · 57 min · 10,718 words

20VC: Five Predictions for a World of Agents | The Ads Business Model Will Die | Biggest Lessons from Working with Elon Musk at Twitter with Parag Agrawal, Parallel

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We're gonna see the big gift or the frontier models be bigger and bigger over time. It appears there is no end to the scaling law that we can perceive so far. I think today we don't know how to pay for unique valuable insight or data. Ads don't work with agents in their current form. You need to find a replacement to the ads business model.

I do think there should be some disparity in wealth. But I don't know what's too much. This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings. Now, what do Andrew Reid, Vinog Kosler, and Josh Kopperman all have in common? Well, they all believe in Parag Agroel to change the future of agentic search.

Parag is the founder of Parallel, as I said, changing the future of how agents do web search efficiently. This is an incredible discussion on the future of agentic search, the future of income and wealth inequality, and so much more. Powerag rarely does shows, and so it was very special to sit down in person with him in London. But before we dive into the show today, MongoDB has always been the database developers love. Well, now it's the data platform AI agents need.

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