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Feb 2025
34m 38s

How To Build The Future: Aravind Sriniva...

Y Combinator
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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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