Rhea Purohit focuses on research-driven storytelling in tech. She writes about the psychology and history of adopting new technologies.
Inside The Browser Company: Why They Killed Arc to Build Dia
When AI gave cofounders Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal a chance at reimagining how we use the internet, they abandoned their hit product to take it
Nov 25, 2025 · 6 min readUpdated Dec 30, 2025
Tl;dr: It’s nearing the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., so we’re republishing one of our favorite episodes from our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper went in-depth with Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal, cofounders of The Browser Company, which created the popular web browser Arc and, more recently, Dia. It follows Rhea Purohit’s piece about which AI browsers the team is using; Dia made the grade for several of our engineers. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here’s a link to the episode transcript.
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