Browserbase

“We're gonna double the team, so we're getting to 50 this year.”

“If you're going to, you know, try and renew your driver's license, the DMV is not going to have an MCP server, or some sort of API, or some sort of first-party AI integration. It's going to be this, you know, website that people have to interact with.”

“For the series A, we flew a plane over San Francisco and had a little banner.”

“We have it on easy mode these days starting businesses. Like, I can go raise capital. I can go, you know, hire people. I can use the internet. I think it's, was so much harder to build great businesses in, like, the eighties and nineties”

“And I think that there's so much of this existing internet, there's so much of this existing infrastructure that people have to depend on and use every single day that we're probably not gonna rewrite all of it. We're not going to rebuild a new internet. We're…”

“For browser base, we've really invested a lot into our customer engineering team and they're not traditional like CS people that you might find on the street. Like they're actually the most educated people at browser base. Like one went to Columbia, they went …”

“I'm very lucky to have Jeff Lawson, the CEO and founder of Twilio, as an angel investor, and he's been instrumental in the growth of this company and a big advisor to me.”

“I think it's actually such a great use of, you know, marketing spend because then they become advocates. They end up giving you great feedback and hopefully you're building champions with the creators you work with.”

“So all in, it's 67 and a half million, though I kind of wish we'd just raised the extra 500 K, so I didn't need that extra half.”

“So we're actually launching a new product today. Part of series B. First, first heard on sorcery. Breaking news. You know, and it's called director, director.ai.”

“A use case that I use Browsebase for recently was I had to file my Delaware franchise tax. And if you ever had to do that as a founder, it is a really annoying web form on the Delaware website. Where you go in, you fill in your cap table, and you correct some …”

“Yeah, I think 15% of our signups came from, well, AI told me about BrowserBase.”

“We have an office in San Francisco, the team is in person five days a week.”

“You know, we have early access to the Gemini computer use model at BrowserBase, and it's very, very good.”

“We actually just crossed a thousand.”

“As a solo founder, you remove this alignment step within co-founders where you have, we have several co-founders. Often the co-founders have to get aligned and then you get aligned to the rest of the company. So when you're a solo founder, It's just you and th…”

“Guillermo from Vercel has also been a very inspirational person for us, and we're lucky to have them both as a customer and an investor. Patrick Callison from Stripe, another angel investor that we're really happy to have on board.”

“You know, one of our investors, Okta the founders of clerk, the founders of stitch, the founders of workOS, all investors in browser base.”

“And not only do we provide the browser infrastructure, browsers at scale in the cloud, but we also have this framework called stagehand, and it's the code interface for the browser, which gives developers and LLMs an easy way to programmatically control a brow…”

“You need to have an emoji that's recognizable with your brand. That way your logo is installed on everyone's keyboard.”

“We also have no PMs, and that's by design. Like, the engineers drive the product requirements from the customer needs”

“So no, if you're watching this, we are not, we're not even really an AI company. We're an infrastructure company. We help companies use model, but people bring their own models on BrowserBase. Their models control our browsers, right? So we're more of a primit…”

“Yes, we are the only AI company In AI grant that spent like zero dollars on models while we were in a grant.”

“I think it's Gemini. I think the DeepMind lab has been doing a really fantastic job. I think it's really tough because I always see like these stats of like DeepMind engineers leaving to go to places, but the team really did a great job. You know, we have earl…”

“We're announcing our series B fundraise, which was led by notable capital Glenn Solomon joining our board.”