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Klein: Browserbase Employs Zero Product Managers by Design
“We also have no PMs, and that's by design. Like, the engineers drive the product requirements from the customer needs”
Klein: New CS graduates face higher unemployment than art history majors
“And apparently, and this is such a bummer cause I'm a CS major, but new grad CS majors have a larger unemployment rate than art history majors.”
Klein: 15% of Browserbase signups come from AI model recommendations
“Yeah, I think 15% of our signups came from, well, AI told me about BrowserBase.”
Klein: Traditional SEO playbooks apply directly to AI model optimization
“I think it's the same, you know, content playbook you use for SEO, put a lot of written content out there, make sure it's scrapable, make sure LLMs can get that into its It's context as well as, you know, making sure we have our content in other places with go…”
Klein: ChatGPT Enterprise will not eat the vertical AI market
“I think there's constantly a debate around like, well, won't, you know, chat GBT enterprise, just eat up all of this market. I don't think that's the case at all. I think that to build a great vertical AI company, like a Decagon, a Sierra, or Harvey, you have …”
Klein predicts federal AI regulation focused on deepfakes will pass in 2025
“I think there will be some sort of regulation, right? Like, especially around like deep fakes or, you know, video, like it feels like you, if you use AI generated video to, you know, cause pain or harm or reputational harm to someone is that standalone AI regu…”
Klein: Browserbase Works In-Person Five Days a Week in San Francisco
“We have an office in San Francisco, the team is in person five days a week.”
Klein: Solo founders eliminate internal co-founder alignment friction
“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…”
Klein: Starting tech businesses today is 'easy mode' compared to the 90s
“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”
Klein: Google Gemini will be the best AI model this month
“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…”
Klein: AI agents need web browsers to do human work
“And if we want AI to do the same work that we're doing, we need AI to use a web browser to work the same way we do.”
Klein: DMVs and legacy government portals will not build AI APIs
“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.”
Klein: Sponsoring technical creators is high-ROI marketing that builds champions
“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.”
Klein: Using an emoji as a brand logo puts it on keyboards
“You need to have an emoji that's recognizable with your brand. That way your logo is installed on everyone's keyboard.”
Klein: AI must navigate legacy web infrastructure rather than rebuilding it
“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…”
Klein: Browserbase is an infrastructure primitive, not an AI agent company
“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…”
Klein: Authentication is the biggest barrier to reliable AI web browsing
“The biggest thing holding back AI agents from really browsing the web reliably is authentication, and there needs to be some innovation there, probably from a couple very well-established companies.”
Klein: Combating AI disinformation requires cryptographic proof of reality
“I think the opportunity for disinformation is really large and it's going to take some sort of, you know, proof of reality in media. Same thing along with like proof of personal. I think there's just more, I'm not a crypto person, but it seems like there's a c…”
Browserbase launches Director.ai, a natural-language agent builder for browser automation
“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.”
Browserbase raises Series B led by Notable Capital
“We're announcing our series B fundraise, which was led by notable capital Glenn Solomon joining our board.”
Klein: Browserbase has raised $67.5M in total funding
“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.”
Browserbase offers Stagehand framework for LLMs to control cloud browsers
“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…”
Twilio founder Jeff Lawson is a Browserbase angel investor and advisor
“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.”
Vercel's Guillermo Rauch and Stripe's Patrick Collison backed Browserbase
“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.”
Browserbase spent zero dollars on models during its AI Grant cohort
“Yes, we are the only AI company In AI grant that spent like zero dollars on models while we were in a grant.”
Founders of Okta, Clerk, Stytch, and WorkOS invested in Browserbase
“You know, one of our investors, Okta the founders of clerk, the founders of stitch, the founders of workOS, all investors in browser base.”
Klein: Browserbase plans to double headcount to 50 this year
“We're gonna double the team, so we're getting to 50 this year.”
Klein: Browserbase has early access to Gemini computer-use model
“You know, we have early access to the Gemini computer use model at BrowserBase, and it's very, very good.”
Klein automated his company's Delaware franchise tax filing using Browserbase
“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 …”
Klein: Browserbase flew an airplane banner over San Francisco for Series A
“For the series A, we flew a plane over San Francisco and had a little banner.”
Browserbase's customer support team consists exclusively of software engineers
“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 …”