{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI & I","title":"Best of the Pod: Would You Shut Down Your Most Successful Product? The Arc to Dia Story","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5025,"description":"If you had millions of people using a product you spent years building, would you kill it?\nThat’s exactly what The Browser Company did with Arc.\nOriginally recorded in July before The Browser Company’s acquisition by software giant Atlassian earlier this year, we’re republishing this episode because its lessons are truly timeless. Today, the team continues to operate independently under Atlassian’s umbrella.\nThe internet backlash when the company killed Arc in May 2025 was intense, but cofounders Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal saw that AI was about to make the web something you talk to, not just click into. The best home for that assistant was the thing that's already between you and the internet—the browser. And they realized they couldn’t just duct-tape it on to Arc.\nOne year of heads-down work later, the team launched Dia in beta, and people are raving about it. Dia is a sleek, fast, browser with AI at its core—it gets better with every tab you open, becoming more and more helpful with time.\nAnd even though it’s still early, Josh and Hursh’s big pivot looks like one for the ages.\nIn this episode of AI & I, Josh and Hursh spoke for the first time in a full-length podcast about their pivot from Arc to Dia. We talked through their decision-making process, the very public backlash the company faced, and the grit it took to stay the course.\nIf you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!\nWant even more?\nSign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free.\nTo hear more from Dan Shipper:\nSubscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe\nFollow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper\nTimestamps:\n00:00:00 - Start\n00:00:48 - Introduction\n00:02:22 - The story of how Dan might've been the CEO of The Browser Company\n00:09:40 - The moment Josh and Hursh knew they had to walk away from Arc...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tpm1hNSy8JXTtPDypo5McPF0S6eDqruRTGYywu9SVrc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNDM2/YzU4NDNmYTQxNTJh/MTEzYjE4YmJmYTg5/ODY1NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}