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title: Paraga Agarwal
description: Former Twitter/X CEO; founder and CEO of Parallel AI, Jan Wilmake's employer in 2025
category: People
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# Paraga Agarwal

**Paraga Agarwal** (`@paraga`) is an entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the former CEO of Twitter (now X). He is the founder and CEO of **[[Parallel AI]]** — a San Francisco-based AI company building next-generation web search and retrieval infrastructure for AI agents. [[Jan Wilmake]] worked directly under him as a DevRel contractor from August to November 2025.[^x-posts-2025-08-06]

## Background

Prior to Parallel AI, Paraga served as CEO of Twitter following Jack Dorsey's departure. He is described by Jan as leading an *"incredibly talent-dense team who are rebuilding web infrastructure for AI from first principles."*[^x-posts-2025-08-06]

## Parallel AI

Under Paraga's leadership, Parallel AI focused on:

- **Web Search API** — state-of-the-art web search engineered for AI agents, with proprietary index and retrieval infrastructure
- **Extract API** — HTML-to-markdown extraction with configurable engines
- **Task API** — long-running parallel research tasks with multiple processor tiers
- **Monitor API** — always-on web monitoring with structured output schemas

In November 2025, Paraga shared benchmark results showing Parallel Search outperforming products built over years by major companies.[^x-posts-2025-11-05]

In January 2026, Parallel's web search was made available in preview on **Google Vertex AI**.[^x-posts-2026-01-14]

## Connection to Jan

Jan publicly announced his Parallel AI role on August 6, 2025, citing Paraga directly: *"Very excited and grateful to be working with @paraga (ex-Twitter CEO) and his incredibly talent-dense team."*[^x-posts-2025-08-06]

## See Also

- [[Parallel_AI]]
- [[Jan_Wilmake]]

[^x-posts-2025-08-06]: X post archive: `x-archive/raw/posts/2025-08-06.md`
[^x-posts-2025-11-05]: X post archive: `x-archive/raw/posts/2025-11-05.md`
[^x-posts-2026-01-14]: X post archive: `x-archive/raw/posts/2026-01-14.md`