Srinivas: Perplexity launched voice assistant early over waiting for perfection
Aravind Srinivas · Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd · Apr 25, 2025 · at 11:51
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, shares an internal Slack exchange with an engineer illustrating how Perplexity prioritizes rapid shipping velocity over corporate perfectionism.
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“I'll literally read out to you the chat I had with our engineer who worked on this. Be good to launch and announce today, question mark. And then he's like, yes, still making improvements, but let's launch. And me like, do you want to address some of the onboarding concerns people had? Like all the, which calendar of which maps to use? And he's like, yeah, there are valid concerns, but I'm worried about waiting too long to launch the Apple engineer and me says to wait until it's perfect. The perplexity engineer in me says that's why Apple has never launched anything. So and then I said, okay, let's roll.”
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