Inside How Perplexity is Disrupting Online Search | Aravind Srinivas (CEO)

My guest today is Aravind Srinivas, CEO and co-founder of
Perplexity.


Aravind is the CEO of Perplexity, the AI answer engine disrupting
online search. Aravind gave me an inside look at how Perplexity
builds products, how it scaled to 100M queries a week, and how
it’ll deliver better ads than Google’s ten blue links.


Timestamps: (00:00) We don't do product reviews (01:22) The
secret to Perplexity's incredible shipping velocity (05:16)
Giving feedback as a user instead of as the CEO (07:01) How
Perplexity decides what to build next (10:56) Perplexity's "7
friends in 10 days" metric (14:02) How Perplexity uses AI to
build Perplexity (17:30) How to get a great job without
traditional credentials (21:50) Key drivers behind Perplexity's
growth to 100M queries (27:50) The future of search ads and why
10 blue links are dead (35:56) Closing advice to get what you
want out of life Get the takeaways:
https://creatoreconomy.so/p/inside-how-perplexity-is-disrupting-search-aravind-srinivas
Where to find Aravind: X: https://x.com/AravSrinivas Website:
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