Gabriel Hubert
23 Nov 2025etn. - LIVE from Slush
Gabriel Hubert, Dust: agents as coworkers in fast-moving companies
Dust co-founder and CEO Gabriel Hubert explains how fast-moving companies like Cursor and Clay use Dust to design, deploy and maintain agents for internal workflows, with over $6M ARR in June and $22M raised with Sequoia. He argues agents should roll out like spreadsheets — adopted bottom-up by non-technical employees rather than gated by a central team — and that augmenting people beats replacing them. He also shares the founding story: his co-founder Stan left Stripe for OpenAI's reasoning team before they started Dust, after Gabriel himself sold his previous company to Stripe.
19 Nov 2025etn. at Slush 2025
Dust CEO Gabriel Hubert on AI Agents for Internal Workflows
Gabriel Hubert, CEO and co-founder of Dust, describes the platform that lets fast-moving companies design, deploy and maintain AI agents for internal workflows across HR, finance, engineering and beyond. He explains why daily active users on high-value, multi-tool use cases is the metric he trusts over ARR (with $6M+ ARR by June, ~$22M raised and Sequoia as partner), uses the spreadsheets analogy against centralized 'department of spreadsheets' rollouts, and argues for augmenting humans rather than replacing them. He also shares the founding story: selling his previous company to Stripe, co-founder Stan joining OpenAI's reasoning team under Greg and Ilya, writing the Dust memo at the end of 2022, and the mission of making 'we run on Dust' the answer ambitious candidates want to hear.