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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