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NavigatorsMerge CEO Shensi Ding on why most agent tools failShensi Ding (Co-Founder & CEO of Merge) started building integrations six years ago, before AI was the market. Now OpenAI, Perplexity, and Factory run on Merge’s connectivity layer. In this episode of Navigators, Paul sits down with her to talk about what it actually takes to connect agents to the systems they need.When Merge benchmarked its tools against public MCP servers, it found a 99.999% success rate compared with roughly 60% for public servers. Shensi says most of those public servers are side projects and marketing that nobody maintains. That is also why AI security ha...
2026-10-2239 min
The Payments ShedEp. 154 - Breaking: Evervault Launches Browser Tokens at Money20/20 USA 2026In this breaking news special of The Payments Shed Podcast, filmed live from Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas, Grant Evans is joined by Shane Curran, Co-Founder & CEO of Evervault, for an exclusive conversation exploring the launch of Browser Tokens and what it could mean for the future of AI-powered commerce.As AI agents increasingly move beyond searching and recommending products to actually completing purchases on behalf of consumers, a fundamental challenge is emerging: how do you let an AI agent pay without giving it access to your sensitive card details?Shane takes us inside Evervault's...
2026-10-2014 min
BraidBroadcom's CEO Compares Some AI Investors to Gamblers; Intel's CEO Warns Capital Is a BottleneckTwo chip-company CEOs said on the same morning that money, not silicon, may be what limits the AI build-out, and three unrelated financings turned up beside them. The rest of the episode follows the same question down the stack: who gets to test frontier models, how Anthropic runs hosted agents, and why identical weights can run at very different speeds.CNBC on the Intel and Broadcom CEOs — both warn that access to capital could become a major constraint on the AI boom.Bloomberg via Techmeme on Hock Tan — Tan compares uninformed AI investors to casino gamblers and questions the...
2026-10-1224 min
NavigatorsThe $1B founder of Fireflies on why he gives his software away for free and what he charges forFireflies gives away unlimited meeting recordings and transcriptions. Krish Ramineni (Co-Founder & CEO of Fireflies) says that was the plan from day one: commoditize yourself before someone else does it for you.In this episode of Navigators, Paul sits down with Krish to talk about what happens to software when models drive most of the interaction. Krish thinks most SaaS will be given away for free and that companies will charge for the agentic work instead. If you don't become agentic, you become a data source or a connector inside someone else's model, and all...
2026-10-0726 min
Insecure AgentsFrom Pets to Cattle: Agent Identity on the Web with Keycard, Browserbase, and VisaRecorded live at Browserbase Navigate on September 10, this panel discusses the shift of agents as pets to agents as cattle: from hand-managed personal agents with copied API keys to fleets of agents that serve an entire enterprise and act on the open web. Moderator Allie Howe is joined by Ian Livingstone, CEO of Keycard, Peyton Casper, Product Lead, Identity at Browserbase, and Ivy Lee, VP Product, CMS Agentic Commerce at Visa. We get into why you can't revoke an agent's access if you can't identify it (a requirement the Agent Baseline reference architecture for production agents calls out), how Web Bot Auth...
2026-09-2828 min
NavigatorsLangChain CEO Harrison Chase on the infrastructure bet he got wrongHarrison Chase (Co-Founder & CEO of LangChain) has rebuilt his product stack four times since 2022, chasing models that kept changing underneath him. In this episode of Navigators, Paul sits down with him to talk about what LangChain got right, and the one piece of infrastructure it built years too late.Harrison admits the team underestimated how massive the demand for raw inference would become, and how big general-purpose coding agents would get. He walks through the shift from LangChain to LangGraph to DeepAgents, why sub-agents rarely work the way people expect, and why LangChain now runs its own...
2026-09-1552 min
NavigatorsA $5 Billion Fintech company CEO on the framework behind every product decisionImmad Akhund (Co-Founder & CEO of Mercury) uses what he calls the cosmic cube to decide what Mercury builds next: one axis for customer type, one for product, one for compliance and infrastructure. In this episode of Navigators, Paul sits down with him to talk about why that space is functionally infinite, and why trying to expand into all of it at once is how companies lose.Immad also explains the two-year mistake of waiting to launch a corporate credit card, why he treats every new product like a fresh seed-stage startup inside Mercury, and...
2026-09-0441 min
NavigatorsLatent Space's Swyx on why 80% of GDP isn't automated yetShawn Wang, aka Swyx, has spent the last several years narrating the AI boom through his podcast Latent Space and the AI Engineer conference. In this episode of Navigators, Paul sits down with him to talk about how far agents have actually come, and why most of the economy hasn't caught up yet.Swyx points to OpenAI's own research showing that roughly 80% of US GDP could be automated by agents today. The holdup isn't the models, he argues, it's everything downstream: cost, reliability, and a hardware shortage severe enough that people are scavenging memory...
2026-08-2824 min
NavigatorsHightouch's founder on why AI marketing lags behind codingThis data turned AI marketing founder, Kashish Gupta, thinks the reason AI hasn't taken over marketing the way it's taken over coding comes down to one word: taste. In this episode of Navigators, Paul talks with him about what it actually takes to teach a model a brand's aesthetic, and why most companies trying to do this are being lazy about it.He explains why marketing lacks the verifiable feedback loop that made AI adoption easy in customer support, and how his team spent over a year building the context layer needed to translate...
2026-08-2136 min
NavigatorsThe CEO of an auth company on agent sign up, auth, and MCPMichael Grinich (CEO & Co-Founder of WorkOS) has spent seven years making software enterprise ready, and the last two watching AI companies become his biggest customers. In this episode of Navigators, Paul sits down with him to talk about what's still broken at the front door of every AI product.Michael makes the case that coding agents already choose your vendors for you, they just can't finish the job: signup forms are built to block automated traffic, so a human still has to step in and register the account. He also gets into why MCP...
2026-08-1324 min
NavigatorsAirtable CEO Howie Liu on rebuilding agent-firstYesterday, Airtable got acquired for $1.285B by Bending Spoons. What people don't know is that Hyperagent spun out into it's own company. Howie Liu is doubling down on Agent-first software, and helped build the MVP himself.On this episode of Navigators, filmed just last month, we sat down to talk about how the Airtable team is rebuilding itself around agents through Hyperagent, why the product form factor has to structurally change with every leap in model capability, and the lean, agent-first companies being born out of all of it.00:00 Why...
2026-08-0538 min
NavigatorsThe Blank Canvas Problem is slowing AI adoption across America | Gusto Co-Founder Edward KimMost people still use AI as a glorified search engine. Edward Kim (Co-Founder and Head of Technology at Gusto) thinks that's the blank canvas problem, and it's what's slowing AI adoption across America.In this episode of Navigators, Paul Klein sits down with Edward to talk about the blank canvas problem, what AI adoption really looks like in the real economy, and what it takes to build a SaaS company today.They also talk about Gusto Cofounder, a new AI agent that runs the operational work of a small business and only checks in when...
2026-07-2733 min
NavigatorsA $4B founder on the one thing holding back every AI agentAaron Levie (Co-Founder & CEO of Box) has run Box through three platform shifts: cloud, mobile, and now AI. In this episode of Navigator, Paul sits down with him in Redwood City to talk about what's actually changing as agents take over knowledge work.Aaron makes the case that most "AI problems" are actually context problems. Agents need access to the 90%+ of enterprise data that's unstructured, and giving them the right information in a tiny window of time and space is the real unsolved challenge. He also breaks down why there's a growing gap between model capability and...
2026-07-0830 min
ポッドちょっと放送局OpenAIがわずか9ヶ月で自社設計AIチップ完成 #096本日のYOSHIO's Report 2026年6月25日（木）1. OpenAIが初の自社設計AIチップ「Jalapeño（ハラペーニョ）」をBroadcom（ブロードコム）と共同発表ChatGPTを動かす「推論（インファレンス）」専用のチップで、設計から製造準備まで約9ヶ月で開発。消費電力あたりの性能が最先端を上回る見込みで、推論コストを約半分に抑えられるとの報道も。2026年末から導入を始め、マイクロソフトなどと大規模データセンターへ拡大予定。背景にはNvidia（エヌビディア）依存からの脱却の狙い。【主な固有名詞】OpenAI（オープンAI）、Broadcom（ブロードコム）、Celestica（セレスティカ）、Jalapeño（ハラペーニョ）、Nvidia（エヌビディア）、Microsoft（マイクロソフト）、ChatGPT（チャットGPT）、GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark（ジーピーティー5.3コーデックス・スパーク）、Sam Altman（サム・アルトマン、OpenAI CEO）、Greg Brockman（グレッグ・ブロックマン、OpenAI社長）、Hock Tan（ホック・タン、Broadcom CEO）、Richard Ho（リチャード・ホー、OpenAIハードウェア責任者）、ASIC（エーシック、用途特化型チップ）、inference（インファレンス、推論）、CNBC（シーエヌビーシー）、Engadget（エンガジェット）2. Google（グーグル）がAIモデル「Gemini 3.5 Flash（ジェミニ3.5フラッシュ）」に、画面を見て操作する「コンピュータ操作（コンピュータ・ユース）」機能を標準搭載AIがスクリーンショットを見てクリック・入力・スクロールを代行し、ブラウザ・スマホ・パソコンを操作。従来は専用モデルが必要だったが高速モデルに統合。料金は入力100万トークンあたり1.5ドル（約240円）。Salesforce（セールスフォース）やXero（ゼロ）などが採用。安全面ではプロンプトインジェクション対策が課題。【主な固有名詞】Google（グーグル）、Gemini 3.5 Flash（ジェミニ3.5フラッシュ）、Gemini 2.5 Computer Use（ジェミニ2.5コンピュータ・ユース）、computer use（コンピュータ・ユース、コンピュータ操作）、agentic（エージェンティック、エージェント型）、Salesforce（セールスフォース）、Agentforce（エージェントフォース）、Xero（ゼロ、会計ソフト）、Shopify（ショッピファイ）、Ramp（ランプ）、Browserbase（ブラウザベース）、OSWorld（オーエスワールド、画面操作ベンチマーク）、prompt injection（プロンプトインジェクション、不正な指示の埋め込み攻撃）、sandbox（サンドボックス、隔離環境）、token（トークン）、Gemini API（ジェミニ・エーピーアイ）、9to5Google（ナイントゥファイブ・グーグル）3. 病院の電話予約を肩代わりするAIエージェント「Assort Health（アソート・ヘルス）」が、評価額12億ドル（約1,930億円）に到達新たに1億2,000万ドル（約193億円）を調達。AIが予約・問診・保険確認などを多言語で代行し、23の診療科・約1万5,000人の医師が利用、累計1億9,000万件の患者対応を処理。創業者はともに29歳のジョン・ワン氏とジェフ・リュー氏。評価額は2025年9月の7億ドルから70%以上の上昇。【主な固有名詞】Assort Health（アソート・ヘルス）、Jon Wang（ジョン・ワン、共同CEO・29歳）、Jeff Liu（ジェフ・リュー、共同CEO・29歳）、Menlo Ventures（メンロ・ベンチャーズ）、Lightspeed（ライトスピード）、First Round（ファーストラウンド）、Chemistry（ケミストリー）、Epic（エピック、電子カルテ）、Athena（アテナ、電子カルテ）、EHR（電子カルテ、Electronic Health Record）、AI agent（エーアイ・エージェント、自律的に業務を代行するAI）、Series C（シリーズC、資金調達ラウンド）、PR Newswire（ピーアール・ニュースワイヤー）、Forbes（フォーブス）【提供：Podchotto（ポッドちょっと） － ポッドキャストとの、偶然の出会いを。】https://podchotto.comあなたの制作・運営しているポッドキャスト番組も無料でお気軽に登録可能です。またリスナーもユーザー登録の必要がありません。この配信で話されている内容は与太話です。誤認や思い込み、ハルシネーションが多々含まれますのでお気を付けくださいパーソナリティ：YOSHIO
2026-06-2514 min
The Dart Board with Daniel DartPaul Klein IV | Browserbase - AI for the internet, headless browsers, and going all inMeet Paul Klein, founder and CEO of Browserbase.Paul started his career at Twilio, where he saw firsthand what it looked like to make something programmable that wasn't designed to be. He spent time at Mux building headless browser infrastructure before founding Browserbase himself and taking it from zero to Series B in under 18 months. The company is backed by Kleiner Perkins, CRV, and Notable Capital, with customers including Ramp, Stripe, Vanta, and Vercel using Browserbase to power their agents across the web.In this episode, we get into...
2026-05-1338 min
Solo FoundersFrom 498 Rejections to a $300M Company | Paul Klein IV (Browserbase)Paul Klein IV applied to 500 internships and got rejected from 498. Now he's the solo founder of Browserbase – a headless browser infrastructure company for AI agents – valued at $300M in under 14 months. He didn't choose to be a solo founder. He tried to find a co-founder and couldn't. In this conversation, he explains why that turned out to be the right thing.Topics covered:Why Paul thinks first-time founders should not be solo foundersThe five-tool founder concept: product, sales, fundraising, hiring, and operationsStreamClub founding story and lessons from having co-foundersHow a 3,000-word memo validated the...
2026-03-1154 min
Agents HourAI NEWS - Something Big is Happening: Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.3-Spark, and Anthropic $30B fundraiseIt's time for another AI News roundup with Shane and Abhi! This week was absolutely massive. Matt Shumer's viral article about AI automation, which describes his own job being automated in real time, has reached 84 million views. Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380B valuation (one of the largest private raises in tech history). Claude Sonnet 4.6 launched with a 1M token context window. And the Chinese model tsunami is real: Qwen 3.5, GLM 5.0, MiniMax M2.5 (nearly Opus-level at 1/8 the cost), and DeepSeek v4 rumors.
We also cover Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, WebMCP native browser support in Chrome 146, OpenAI's agent workflow...
2026-02-2124 min
Hunters and UnicornsThe AI Reality Check: Why Most Startups Won’t Survive the Hype with Paul KleinToday we tackle the noise surrounding the AI movement with Paul Klein, CEO and Founder of Browserbase. With a career spanning early-stage Twilio to raising $70 million in under two years for his own infrastructure startup, Paul brings much-needed critical thinking to the "AI bubble" debate.
We explore the bridge between old-world sales principles and modern, developer-first GTM strategies. Paul breaks down why Product-Led Growth (PLG) should be viewed as a pipeline engine rather than just a revenue machine and explains the power of the "Logo Flywheel" in creating executive FOMO.
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2026-02-1140 min
Open Source Startup PodcastE184: Building the Browser for AI - the Browserbase StoryIn this episode, we sit down with Paul Klein IV, Founder & CEO of Browserbase, to explore how his team is redefining the foundation of AI-driven browser automation. Browserbase provides the web browser infrastructure for AI agents and apps, and its open-source SDK, Stagehand, lets developers write automations using natural language - adapting seamlessly as websites evolve.Paul shares his belief that browser automation is a critical but underinvested primitive that future AI applications will depend on for years. He traces the journey from the limitations of traditional headless browsers and brittle RPA tools to the...
2025-10-2943 min
AI Tinkerers - "One-Shot"Browserbase - Automate the Web with Stagehand (Open Source)Today, Browserbase released Stagehand, an open source standard and implementation that bridges the gap between things like Playwright, Playwright, Puppeteer or Selenium, which can control a browser but which were built primarily for testing applications, with LLMs to allow a much more expressive and fault-tolerant solution for agentic systems that control web browsers.We sit down with Paul Klein, the CEO and Founder of Browserbase, and AI Tinkerers San Francisco organizer, as he unveils Stagehand and takes us on a tour of it's natural language interface and simple command interface -- "act," "extract," and "observe."
2025-10-1734 min
Code to Market33. Browserbase's Growth EnginesWhy ignoring best practices works, and why launches only matter if the product sticks.Paul Klein IV, CEO of Browserbase, on growing with launch videos, planes over OpenAI, no dark mode, and red CTA buttons.
2025-09-0245 minCode to MarketCEO ESSENTIALS | "Ship something you're ashamed of" (Paul Klein IV, CEO @ Browserbase)What does a second-time founder consider ESSENTIAL for taking his product to market and running his startup, Browserbase?
2025-08-2708 min
Soft Commitment Podcast: – AI, Girişimcilik ve Yeni Ekonomi | Erman Taylan2026 GenAI tahminleri, danışmanlık şirketleri ve hedge fonların dönüşümüSevgili teknoloji meraklısı, merhaba.
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2025-08-1916 min
TBPNThe Steelman for Grok's Vulgar Anime Mode, AWS Launches Competitor to Browserbase, What AI Product Will Zuck Launch Next? | Delian Asparouhov, Lucas Swisher, Ravi Gupta, Adam Warmoth, Misha Laskin(01:01) - The Steelman for Grok's Vulgar Anime Mode
(20:50) - AWS Launches Competitor to Browserbase
(31:16) - Timeline
(31:49) - What AI Product will Zuck Launch Next?
(01:01:21) - Delian Asparouhov. Delian is a Partner at Founders Fund and the Co-founder & President of Varda Space Industries, which is building the first commercial manufacturing facility in space. He previously worked at Khosla Ventures and studied at MIT. He’s known for his focus on frontier tech, national defense, and aerospace innovation.
(01:31:46) - Lucas Swisher. Lucas is a Founding Partner at Coatue Management’s venture capital arm, where he leads investments in enterprise software and...
2025-07-163h 07
In the Pit with Cody Schneider | Marketing | Growth | Startups50 ai agents are running this guy's business. no employees?https://www.graphed.com/ - AI data analyst to build dashboard and get insightsIn this episode, Adam Silverman — co-founder & CEO of Agent Ops — dives deep into what “AI agents” actually are, why observability matters, and the very real marketing & growth automations companies are shipping today. From social-listening bots that draft Reddit replies to multi-agent pipelines that rebalance seven-figure ad budgets in real time, Adam lays out a practical playbook for founders, heads of growth, and non-technical operators who want to move from hype to hands-on results.Guest socials• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamsil...
2025-07-1052 min
Notable PerspectivesBuilding the Browser Infrastructure for AI Agents with the Founder of BrowserbaseWhat happens when AI agents need to navigate the web just like humans do? In this episode, we sit down with Paul Klein, co-founder and CEO of Browserbase, to explore how browsers are becoming the critical infrastructure layer for AI-powered automation. Paul shares his journey from working at companies like Twilio and Mux to founding Browserbase, a platform that provides headless browser infrastructure for developers building AI agents that can interact with any website on the internet.Key Takeaways:Start with a burning problem: Paul emphasizes that startups should be a "means of last resort" — you sh...
2025-06-2637 minTBPNRamp New $16B Valuation, OpenAI Wins $200M U.S. Defense Contract | Saquon Barkley, Eric Glyman, George Hotz, Joseph Torigian, Paul Klein, Ryan Daniels, Alex Kantrowitz(00:30) - Timeline
(14:02) - Eric Glyman is the co-founder and CEO of Ramp, a financial technology company offering corporate charge cards and expense management solutions. In the conversation, he discusses Ramp's rapid growth, highlighting that the company has reached a $16 billion valuation and serves over 40,000 businesses. Glyman emphasizes the integration of AI into Ramp's products to automate tasks like expense reporting and bill payments, aiming to save businesses time and money.
(29:42) - Timeline
(58:31) - George Hotz, also known as "geohot," is an American software engineer and hacker renowned for unlocking the iPhone and reverse-engineering the PlayStation 3. In the conversation...
2025-06-173h 29
SourceryHow Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe CodersPaul Klein IV, founder & CEO of Browserbase, announces their $40M Series B at a $300M valuation led by Notable Capital. Browserbase has raised $67.5M in total funding in just 15 months (!!) since founding the company. Existing investors include big Silicon Valley funds like Kleiner Perkins, CRV, Basecase, and more. Paul shares how Browserbase is powering the next generation of AI agents and “vibe coders” by providing programmable, cloud-hosted browser infrastructure—what he calls “Twilio for headless browsers.”Special thank you to John at Strike Capital for the introduction, as well as Bucky Mo...
2025-06-1754 min
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch20VC Exclusive: Why Mega Platforms Will Win in VC | Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed | Why Market Sizing is BS | Where Will Foundation Models Build/Buy Apps vs Where Will They Not with Bucky MooreBucky Moore is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, announced exclusively in the show today on 20VC. Prior to Lightspeed, Bucky spent an incredibly successful 7 years at Kleiner Perkins working with Mamoon Hamid to build one of the most successful early stage firms of the last decade. Bucky has made investments in the likes of Prisma, Netlify, Browserbase and more. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 03:07 Big News: Joining Lightspeed Venture Partners 04:09 Why Mega Platforms Will Win the Next 10 Years of VC 09:33 Are Foundation Model Companies Good Venture Investments 16:04 What App...
2025-05-051h 05
The Infra PodAI needs a browser infra! Chat with Paul from BrowserbaseIn this episode of the Infra Pod, Tim from Essence and Ian Livingston host Paul Klein, CEO of Browser Base, to discuss the intricacies and future of browser automation, the challenges of running headless browsers, and the emergence of AI-driven web agents.00:29 What's Browserbase?01:20 Challenges with Headless Browsers02:57 AI Agents and Headless Browsers09:21 The Future of Browser Automation13:26 Technical Challenges in Browser Automation18:10 Differences between Browserbase and Other Tools21:12 Addressing Use Cases and Developer Experience
2025-04-2145 min
The Peel with Turner NovakSurviving Two Seed Extensions, Fixing Auth for AI Agents | Clerk Founder & CEO Colin SidotiColin Sidoti is the Co-founder and CEO of Clerk, the best way to build authentication and user management.I loved this conversation, because Colin is currently in the arena building Clerk. It has not been easy, and he takes us inside some of the harder moments of the past six years.We hit on three main themes: authentication; lessons raising multiple hard Seed extensions in the early days, including a recap before the A, and the demo that got a16z to invest; and things AI and MCP.
2025-04-171h 39
Newcomer PodThe Biggest Deal of the Year!We're opening in a celebratory mood this week with Wiz's big exit to Google, which if it holds will offer some much needed liquidity to venture firms and their LPs. It's a big win for several of Silicon Valley's heavy hitters, including Sequoia's Doug Leone, Index Ventures' Shardul Shah, and Greenoaks' Neil Mehta. IPOs are looking a little bit more uncertain, however. Plus, Deel's allleged corporate espionage at Rippling has all the makings of a great HR tech spy thriller. Next up, we touch on the new liberal "abundance" agenda, which has more than a few similarities to Marc...
2025-03-2144 min
AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & TrendsAnthropic CEO Says AI Will Write All Code, China's Manus AI, New OpenAI Models & More AI NewsAGI is coming & Anthropic's Dario Amoedi says AI will soon write all code but... what happens then? New AI Agent Manus & OpenAI's Agentic Responses API give us a sneak peak at the future. Plus, Hedra's Character-3 is VERY good at lip-sync, OpenAI's got a new Creative Writing AI model that's making people mad, Google's Gemma 3 is a small AI model with big results, multiple new AI-to-video pipelines for creatives, robot are hoverboarding and running marathons and Kevin vibe-coded a special meme-ified HAPPY 100 EPISODES AI FOR HUMANS gift for Gavin. Gavin did nothing for Kevin. BUT...
2025-03-131h 06
mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen LaterOpen Operator, Serverless Browsers and the Future of Computer-Using Agents Podcast: Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Open Operator, Serverless Browsers and the Future of Computer-Using AgentsPub date: 2025-02-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday's episode is with Paul Klein, founder of Browserbase. We talked about building browser infrastructure for AI agents, the future of agent authentication, and their open source framework Stagehand.* [00:00:00] Introductions* [00:04:46] AI-specific challenges in browser infrastructure* [00:07:05] Multimodality in AI-Powered Browsing* [00:12:26] Running headless browsers at scale
2025-03-061h 01
Latent Space: The AI Engineer PodcastOpen Operator, Serverless Browsers and the Future of Computer-Using AgentsToday's episode is with Paul Klein, founder of Browserbase. We talked about building browser infrastructure for AI agents, the future of agent authentication, and their open source framework Stagehand. * [00:00:00] Introductions * [00:04:46] AI-specific challenges in browser infrastructure * [00:07:05] Multimodality in AI-Powered Browsing * [00:12:26] Running headless browsers at scale * [00:18:46] Geolocation when proxying * [00:21:25] CAPTCHAs and Agent Auth * [00:28:21] Building “User take over” functionality * [00:33:43] Stagehand: AI web browsing framework * [00:38:58] OpenAI's Operator and computer use agents * [00:44:44] Surprising use cases of Browserbase * [00:47:18] Future of browser automation and mark...
2025-02-281h 01
The Peel with Turner NovakInfrastructure for AI Browsers with Paul Klein, Founder + CEO of 🅱️ BrowserbasePaul Klein is the Founder and CEO of Browserbase, building infrastructure for AI browsers.Our conversation gets into the future of software and AI agents, why authentication is a huge problem in AI, how the best infrastructure companies become product companies, and the memo he wrote that convinced him to start Browserbase despite not wanting to build another company.A year ago, Paul was a relatively unknown commodity, and definitely did not want to raise venture capital again. He shares the playbook he used to go from zero to raising $27 million in nine months “as a non-famous pe...
2025-01-231h 53
Scaling DevToolsPaul Klein, CEO & Founder of BrowserbasePaul Klein is the founder and CEO of Browserbase - one of the fastest growing DevTools in 2024.Browserbase is a headless browser API focused on helping AI Agent startups.We dig into:Why browser automation?How Browserbase hit "VC-market-fit"Visionary is revisionist-history Tips for hiring your friendsWhy buying a jacket is like buying a devtoolBuilding an in-person DevTool in San FranciscoMaking priorities (what Paul doesn’t care about).Where to find Paul and Browserbase:Twitter/X https://x.com/pauljasonklein?lang=enLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkleinivBrowserbase https://www.browserbase.com/R...
2024-10-2442 min