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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 2:30 Jason Lemkin Spinning up browsers that you're not like using agents to go into browsers, perplexity and Amazon fought over this.
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 19:19 Rory O'Driscoll And then something like perplexity investment or open AI investment is literally, especially the open AI is vendor financing, where you as the vendor of the chips are choosing to give your customer money, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:12 Rory O'Driscoll You have perplexity too, right?
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker A twenty billion dollar company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:10 Aravind Srinivas Maybe in the early days, we'd be very, very loud on social media talking about perplexity with Google, and I used to do that myself a lot, so, and some people don't like me for having done that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:31 Aravind Srinivas That's just, it's less about perplexity or entropic or open AI not having modes or having modes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Aravind Srinivas You know, perplexity is known for.
- ▶ 12:39 Aravind Srinivas And so the reason Greg is right is because, um, if you take codex or perplexity computer or plot code, what is that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:07 Aravind Srinivas And, uh, the way we differentiate ourselves at perplexity
- ▶ 16:57 Aravind Srinivas There are users in perplexity computer 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:04 Aravind Srinivas Um, and that's actually what we focus on for perplexity computer.
- ▶ 31:40 Aravind Srinivas And, uh, and I think that's what, that's what we want to do. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:13 Aravind Srinivas Like you, you can, you can go to perplexity and ask any question and get fact checked on your assumptions.
- ▶ 59:41 Aravind Srinivas Like when we started perplexity, we had like around 200,000 dollars worth of Amazon credits and GCP credits and Azure credits.
- ▶ 1:01:22 Aravind Srinivas Like, like people should look at perplexity and be like, oh, like with 400 people, um, you can build like a multi, like, like, I don't know, like 20,000,000,020 billion dollar company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:02 Harry Stebbings Do you think Pablassi will be a trillion dollar company?
- ▶ 1:16:27 Aravind Srinivas So it's, it's, it's as likely for perplexity to become worth two trillion dollars as a founder who's yet to secure your funding to be worth a billion dollars.
- ▶ 1:21:41 Harry Stebbings Pre this year, there was like a three month period where people were like, oh, perplasticity, what's happening with perplasticity? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:08 Harry Stebbings What's the most plausible story where publicity becomes a trillion dollar company? 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:41 Harry Stebbings I just did a show with Aaron at Perplexity, and he said that export controls have actually hurt the US in many ways, because it's meant that they've innovated on architecture that they wouldn't have needed to, and really built muscle that…
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:53 unnamed speaker What Exit does is around search, because if you think about it, if you remember back when ChatGPT first came out, it was dumb about anything other than what it, you know, what the model had been trained on, and then people like perplexity… 2 times in the scene
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:55 Harry Stebbings Cristiano Ronaldo announced last night that he was investing in perplexity. 2 times in the scene
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:52 unnamed speaker Can Harry, can Harry get me into perplexity? 2 times in the scene
20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 1:06:32 Sandy Diao You optimizing for GPT mentions is very different than you optimizing for perplexity mentions, etc.
- ▶ 1:11:27 Sandy Diao I love perplexity because it really does solve a lot of my research needs. 3 times in the scene
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:04 unnamed speaker They have commanding market share in the consumer chatbot market, you know, though I think between Gemini and perplexity, I think they would argue not, not a monopoly.
Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:53 Harry Stebbings So I was, I was chatting to Aravind from Perplexity a month or so ago.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:56 Byron Deeter You know, you look at an Anthropic or a Perplexity or a Canva, um, and we, you know, we have, you know, nine figures into, uh, into each of these companies, um, and yet, uh, we are still, you know, well below historical venture standards…
- ▶ 28:04 Byron Deeter And, and I assure you, one of the coolest things about the profile of anthropic and perplexity and Canvan, these businesses is the math actually pencils out.
- ▶ 32:52 Byron Deeter And, um, perplexity is doing that in, um, in search and answer engine world.
- ▶ 36:53 Harry Stebbings You know, we're seeing the extension of private, I'm not talking about perplexity here, but just generally we've seen the extension of private markets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:50 Byron Deeter And, you know, Pete's done this many times already with, with perplexity and Databricks and many others where, I mean, he literally was there at the inception stage of these Decacorn businesses.
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:20 Anton Osika So there's, uh, Strawberry, here's Stockholm, there's Dia and Perplexity now. 4 times in the scene
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:15 Harry Stebbings Another element that's just like crazy is perplexity trying to buy Chrome for 34.5 billion dollars. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:46 Harry Stebbings When I look at a McCaw, when I look at a perplexity, when I look at amazing business studies, I want to see me and Harvin chat a lot.
- ▶ 1:13:55 Harry Stebbings Aravind from perplexity.
20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko
- ▶ 53:39 unnamed speaker Yeah, we use Perplexity. 2 times in the scene
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:02 Miles Dieffenbach So, you know, say that someone else wants to do a thirty billion dollar acquisition of perplexity, and perplexity says, ooh, we have to wait 12 months, our board's gonna recommend a 15% breakup fee.
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:45 Harry Stebbings It's funny, you mentioned, you mentioned Google there, and you know, I'll never forget being told by a guest years ago that Google was successful because of their early partnership decisions in large part, and you know, one of the big… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:34 Jason Lemkin What's the perplexity round again? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:02 Rory O'Driscoll No matter, almost, it's hard to imagine that the most ambitious company out there not doing something that, you know, perplexity is doing, other people are doing.
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 40:19 Kieran Flanagan Like, you know, we've seen like perplexity in some of these other companies start to deploy agents.
20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
- ▶ 58:03 Kim Graves And so we'll say here, like the fastest growing companies like OpenAI, Vercel, Perplexity, they're all relying on Notion.
20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
- ▶ 1:11:59 Harry Stebbings An example, for me, I was like, you know what, chat GPT, whatever, fuck it, we'll go to Grop, perplexity, you name it.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:44 Harry Stebbings perplexity raising again, uh, first tranche 15, second move to 18 because there was so much demand.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:46 unnamed speaker It was before perplexity. 2 times in the scene
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:51 unnamed speaker And all the models need access to, quote unquote, modern news to be able to answer the real-time questions the way perplexity initially did, and now everyone has copied, you know, you have LLM plus web search.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:22 Rory O'Driscoll What perplexity is selling from an investor perspective is an at-bat 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:59 Harry Stebbings Uh, perplexity. 7 times in the scene
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:47 Victor Lazarte So, think about, like, I don't know, like, entropic at 60, or you think about perplexity at 15, right?
20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
- ▶ 1:01:27 Aatish Nayak I will say, um, I do think perplexity is honestly just killing it. 6 times in the scene
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:20 Harry Stebbings To grok, perplexity, um, OpenAI.
20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- ▶ 11:05 Ishan Mukherjee AI answers and kind of search, I guess, perplexity-like systems, but that's not going away.
- ▶ 24:00 Ishan Mukherjee If you're a really savvy person, you go to perplexity, you go to chat GPT, hopefully with rocks, you understand everything about the customer, everything about what you're selling, and really ramp much faster.
- ▶ 26:58 Ishan Mukherjee Most sales reps in the world use ChatGPT, perplexity, LLMs in their private life, but they can't use in their professional life.
- ▶ 39:54 Ishan Mukherjee And those things work really well in consumer applications, like perplexity, which is amazing.
- ▶ 1:01:32 Harry Stebbings You said about your love for perplexity earlier. 4 times in the scene
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:47 Andrew Feldman On the other hand, if you want an answer from perplexity,
- ▶ 42:17 Andrew Feldman Well, you can move from OpenAI on an NVIDIA GPU to Cerebrus to Fireworks Service on something else to Together to perplexity with 10 keystrokes.
Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:53 Harry Stebbings And I do it across Grok, I do it across Perplexity, uh, Open Hour Deep Research, and Claude.
- ▶ 45:34 Yamini Rangan If you look at the SEO traffic, especially after AI overviews and what perplexity in some of these sources actually provide, the big shift that has happened, Harry, is search engines used to provide blue links that you can click and then…
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 3:20 Harry Stebbings Perplexity, Vercel, Sierra, I mean, these companies are awesome, and they've raised ninety-five million dollars in funding from amazing people like TwentyVC.
- ▶ 48:01 Harry Stebbings Perplexity, Vercel, Sierra.
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:56 Steeve Morin As we saw with Mistral and perplexity, but I'm not sure, you know, that was done.
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:45 Jonathan Ross But there are, um, startups like perplexity,
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:49 Harry Stebbings What do you think publicity is in three years? 3 times in the scene
Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:06 Marc Benioff Like, for example, we saw perplexity go off and try to be something truly unique in financial services.
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:41 unnamed speaker Perplexity at nine or, or, or. 6 times in the scene
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Raman Malik We can go out and scream from the mountaintops about perplexity, but it is a lot better when someone else is telling you to use it, or it is being bundled into an existing product of yours. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings Like, how the fuck does a kid from Alabama get to being head of growth at Perplexity? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48 Harry Stebbings The other kind of difficult journey that you make is from founder to perplexity. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:14 Raman Malik I'm hurting searches happening in perplexity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 Raman Malik Or you had so much great value early on that you're now rabbit holing into perplexity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Harry Stebbings Um, my question to you is when we think about acquisition, what have been your single biggest lessons on effective acquisition since joining Perplexity? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:29 Raman Malik We're willing to trade off a month of pro, because if you don't use pro, it's pretty variable, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:34 Raman Malik Creators, how do we work with creators to share perplexity? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:18 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, when you came into perplexity, um, I spoke to Aravind before the show and he said that actually you very quickly diagnosed this is not an acquisition problem. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:00 Raman Malik Perplexity is incredibly horizontal. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 Raman Malik I mean, and this is something we're going to never stop banging our head against, but how we tinker with the messaging as soon as you land on perplexity, it's critical for us that people understand that perplexity has up-to-date data that… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:43 Raman Malik Like you look at perplexity, it is completely unoptimized for driving subscriptions.
- ▶ 37:46 unnamed speaker What's cool about Perplexi is we don't have a marketing department. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:32 Raman Malik There are students using perplexity and getting tons and tons of value, but we under index and awareness with students relative to chat GPT. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:19 Harry Stebbings So many people's social posting is like, thrill to announce perplexity's new product. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:35 Harry Stebbings Do you do it for perplexity, or it's a different company? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:01 Raman Malik When I joined Perplexity and was writing out my pro-con list, I think the one that was, like, up there was, like, can the application layer capture and monetize value?
- ▶ 58:31 Raman Malik You know, I think perplexity is his first big swing at a company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:42 Harry Stebbings Why don't perplexity do a perplexity wrapped?
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:31 Harry Stebbings I've been insanely impressed by perplexity, I have to say. 2 times in the scene
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:12 Harry Stebbings Would you be short or long Google to say, just in a hypothetical world, you've got perplasty eating a lot of consumers fast. 2 times in the scene
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:36 Harry Stebbings I get you, but like our end of perplexity is like, no, we're not, we're not doing that.
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:25 Scott Gorlick I'm a huge perplexity user. 3 times in the scene
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:10 Harry Stebbings Does that look like when kids come home from school, they just have perplexity or open up and they have another tutor with them where, as you said, in most cases, they end up doing the work for them.
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:09 Harry Stebbings Have you tried perplexity?
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:12 Harry Stebbings We actually just released a show today with Aravind, the founder of Perplexity. 2 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:25 unnamed speaker Are you not in that same arena? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:38 unnamed speaker That's why we have other, other surface areas for ads too, like even the discover feature and perplexity, which has like, you know, a bunch of threads, interesting, uh, threads every single day to like read, uh, that's just going to be…
- ▶ 40:41 Harry Stebbings How do you think about when's the right time to build out perplexity's enterprise division? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:43 Aravind Srinivas You'll offer an enterprise pro with compliance and security and data governance, and literally offer you the same product with all these, uh, security features. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:17 Aravind Srinivas Or why is it that, uh, people still think, at least a good chunk of people, I'm not saying everyone, think, um, ChatGPT browsing is not as good as perplexity, despite them making so many updates over the last one year. 3 times in the scene
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