YC General Partner David Lieb sits down with Aravind Srinivas, the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, to discuss his origins in Silicon Valley, what it’s like to compete with Google, and what the future of search could look like.
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0:00 Intro
0:51 Aravind’s early days in AI
3:45 What made Aravind start a company
6:35 The first iterations
14:10 Realizing Perplexity had potential
19:02 “The user is never wrong.”
22:20 Managing the team
24:53 Brutal honesty brings out the worst bugs
25:33 Avoiding becoming a big slow company
27:37 The future of search
31:11 Perplexity’s advantage against its competitors
34:26 Outro
