Aravind Srinivas

5 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2024 by Aravind Srinivas · said 15 times in 8 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Feb 15, 2024 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Srinivas: 50% to 60% of Character.AI Users Are Under 20
“It's more popular among the younger generation, like 50 to 60% of their user base is under the age of 20. Because they're using it to talk to imaginary anime characters and things like that.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 2:18 Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
Feb 15, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity will not extract all search value like Google did
“We perplexity is not trying to be creating a trillion dollar economy On top of ads or on top of all the searches that we get and trying to take all of it and not give away much to others. Like nobody won, only Google won in the past era where, you know, the te…”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 33:04 Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
Feb 15, 2024 negative
Opinion
Srinivas: AI outside Google is now higher quality than Google's internal AI
“So the first time, for the first time, we have had intelligence outside Google, like artificial intelligence outside Google, that's of higher quality than what is inside Google.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 25:09 Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
Feb 15, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Google quadrupled an engineer's pay to stop Perplexity recruitment
“There was one amazing candidate that I tried to recruit from Google. This candidate used to work in the, I mean, he still works there, in the Google search team. Like, it's not one of the AI people. And the moment he told them that he's gonna join us, they qua…”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 10:13 Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
Jul 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Perplexity gave $30 million in discounts to reach 50 million users
“Well, first of all, they're an insanely badly run company. They did, like, thirty-five million. They lost, I forget exactly how much they lost, but they did refunds or discounts of, like, thirty million dollars. They're literally giving money away to make peop…”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 54:05 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
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