Yarats: Perplexity built unreleased Twitter, Salesforce, and HubSpot integrations early on
Denis Yarats · No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats · Apr 25, 2023 · at 14:40
Denis Yarats is co-founder and CTO of Perplexity AI. He explains the company's early experimentation before narrowing its focus.
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“Even though we're like six months or like seven months old company, we actually built so many things. We had like, you know, Twitter, we had like a Salesforce integration. We have like HubSpot integration, like many other things that we never like released.”
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