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View From The Top with Aravind Srinivas, Cofounder and CEO of Perplexity

In this View From The Top interview, Aislin Roth, MBA ‘25, speaks with Aravind Srinivas, CEO & Co-Founder of Perplexity.

Aislin RothhostAravind Srinivasguest
Dec 2, 202452mWatch on YouTube

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Released
December 2, 2024
Duration
52m
Channel
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

In this View From The Top interview, Aislin Roth, MBA ‘25, speaks with Aravind Srinivas, CEO & Co-Founder of Perplexity. Aravind shares his journey from growing up in India, moving to the U.S. to pursue his PhD in computer science, and founding Perplexity, an AI-powered “answer-engine” that recently tripled its valuation. Aravind shares his own leadership lessons, offers advice to prospective founders, and dives into what makes Perplexity unique. A must-listen for anyone interested in entrepreneurial leadership, the future of AI, and reimagining search as we know it.

SPEAKERS

  • Aislin Roth

    host

    Host/interviewer for Stanford GSB’s “View From The Top” conversation.

  • Aravind Srinivas

    guest

    Cofounder and CEO of Perplexity.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Stanford Graduate School of Business, featuring Aislin Roth and Aravind Srinivas, View From The Top with Aravind Srinivas, Cofounder and CEO of Perplexity explores Perplexity’s CEO on citations, moats, monetization, and scaling fast Aravind Srinivas linked Perplexity’s distinctive citation-first “answer engine” experience to his PhD training in academic norms, where claims require sources and impact comes from being cited.

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