Malte Kosub
9 Feb 2026$500M ElevenLabs, Attio & Parloa Founder Joins, Anthropic & OpenAI Beef
2:00:0921 min
Parloa CEO Malte Kosub: Enterprise AI Agents & the $350M Round
After wrapping the reaction to Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, the hosts bring on Parloa's co-founder and CEO. He traces his path from a school music-contest NGO and a lyrics-poster e-commerce business to founding one of the first conversational AI agencies in 2017, years before LLMs made the voice-AI thesis actually work. He explains Parloa's enterprise agent platform used by the likes of Booking.com, Allianz and IKEA in 100+ countries, the recent $350M round, and the 'Parloa Promise' covering enterprises, end customers and retraining workers as agent supervisors. He also argues that overloading agents with context degrades instruction following and tool calling, and shares his 'win the Super Bowl' hiring philosophy.