Dmitry Shevelenko
Chief Business Officer, Perplexity. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Dmitry Shevelenko is the Chief Business Officer at Perplexity, where he oversees global business operations, enterprise partnerships, and commercialization initiatives. Previously, he co-founded the robotics startup Tortoise and held senior business development roles at Uber, LinkedIn, and Meta.
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Everything Dmitry Shevelenko said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sales Teams Should Use AI for Discovery Before Meetings
“Every question that you would ask in a meeting with some, you know, third party and an external party, you can be asking those questions of perplexity of different AIs in advance, right? So the, there's no excuse to not be informed. You should not actually be …”
Perplexity to Launch Projects Feature for Building Mini-Apps
“We're going to have the ability to build many apps and perplexity soon, or something's going to get announced called projects.”
AI Reduces Early Startup Prototyping From Weeks to One Hour
“To quickly visualize different concepts and get feedback on them, that should no longer take a week, a month. That's like an hour. And you should be constantly running through your head. You know, how can I do in one hour, what used to take a day? In one day, …”
Shevelenko: AI delivers 80% first drafts without replacing human judgment
“You should never then just take that output and immediately hit send. That's not, I think that's, it's not about replacing human judgment and oversight. It's about saving you that time to get to the 80% quality first draft and then making sure you're applying …”
Shevelenko Predicts AI Context Windows Will Continue to Expand Reliably
“The one thing that you can rely on in terms of the direction of AI progress is the context windows will expand, right? You'll be able to feed more into the prompt and get a useful output right now.”
Perplexity CBO: Asking the Right Questions Remains Critical as AI Evolves
“Coming up with the right questions to ask will become the critical skill, right? And you can say that's a form of like prompting, but preserving the spark of curiosity and knowing where to take the next question. That's because the answers will keep getting sm…”
Shevelenko Predicts AI Will Shift to Proactive Assistance Within 12 Months
“I think where we want to take the technology is to become a lot more proactive rather than being reactive, right? So instead of you having to always ask for the update of what's happening with this account, we're able to detect those changes that are meaningfu…”
Perplexity Serves 5,000 Enterprise Clients With Just Five Sales Reps
“We have around over 5000 enterprise clients for Prophexity Enterprise Pro, and we have five sellers.”
Human Sales Reps Remain Essential for Security and Compliance Reviews
“Where sellers end up being still very essential is things like security and compliance review, where you're actually, it goes back to trust where it's somewhat arbitrary process.”
Over 75,000 Developers Currently Use Perplexity's Sonar APIs
“We have. 75,000 developers using them and in very much in the space where Sam is building, we're seeing a lot of traction.”
Related Questions Are Perplexity's Most Popular Product Feature
“One of the most popular features in the product are the related questions that we show below the answer.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Dmitry's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Chief Business Officer, Perplexity | 1 | 19 | — | full record on Big Technology → |
 SAASTRLEDGER | Chief Business Officer, Perplexity | 1 | 17 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |