Perplexity
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10 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2024 by Emilie Gerber · said 88 times in 55 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (77), Andrew Wilkinson (3), Grant Lee (2), Ethan Smith (2), Zevi Arnovitz (1), Mike Krieger (1), Bob Baxley (1)
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2026 15 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy
- How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 71 mentions in 43 episodes 2 per episode
- The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
- Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- 35 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
Everything said about Perplexity, oldest first
Mar 21, 2024 positive
Gerber: Perplexity spends zero on paid marketing and drives growth via PR
“So for instance, perplexity, they have invested essentially zero in any paid marketing. They don't have a marketing person even, but they do do PR. And so essentially after their most recent announcement, they saw, you know, a massive spike in growth, a massiv…”
Apr 28, 2024 positive
Beykpour: Perplexity is one of few consumer AI products that retains
“It's like one of the only non-development tool AI products that actually has retained. A lot of people try and consumer AI products that just aren't really, haven't retained, but perplexity is one that is a, it's a daily driver for me.”
Sep 19, 2024 negative
Schwartz: Top-Of-Funnel Search Queries Will Shift Into AI Overviews
“So now a lot of those keywords are going to be moving into these AI overviews. And I don't want to just focus on Google, although I think Google's going to own the entire search page forever and ever for at least for a very long time. But other engines, whethe…”
Sep 19, 2024 bearish
Schwartz: AI Startups Cannot Unseat Google Purely on Search Product Quality
“I don't think there's a chance, and this is the biggest takeaway, I don't think there's a chance that ChatGPT or Perplexity or Claude or any of these other LLM startups, because they're startups now, even, even OpenAI as a startup with Bing's part, with Micros…”
Jul 3, 2025 positive
Sep 14, 2025 neutral
Sep 14, 2025 neutral
Oct 9, 2025 neutral
Perplexity employees must ask AI before asking colleagues a question
“I did an interview with the founders of perplexity a few years ago, asking about how they work at perplexity. And the founder said that before they were ruled before they ask a question of anyone on the team, they have to ask AI first.”
Nov 13, 2025 positive
Lee: Gamma used Perplexity early on for outline generation
“Early on, things like creating the outline perplexity was actually great. You know, not one that people talk about as often, but creating the outline and doing web search and, you know, actually integrating some of those elements together for us was pretty pow…”
Mar 29, 2026 negative
Vo: No AI tool has successfully unlocked agentic browser use
“I don't think anybody has really unlocked browser use. That is not just an OpenClaw thing. I think we look at ChatGPT Atlas, you look at Perplexity, Comet, you look at all of these kind of browser use. Plod has a browser use component. I don't think any of the…”