Aravind Srinivas

14 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 21, 2025 by Aravind Srinivas · across every show →

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Feb 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Releasing follow-up questions doubled user engagement time on Perplexity
“And then we released the ability to ask follow-up questions. That doubled the engagement time on the site, and also increased the number of questions every day, and the number of people, number of questions every day was increasing exponentially.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 15:59 How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2025
Insight
Companies cannot expect their 250th engineering hire to be obsessively detail-oriented
“The obsessive detail-oriented people there are only that many people in the world, so obviously you cannot expect engineer number 250 to be like that.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 26:37 How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2025 positive
Insight
Search and autonomous driving are the only AI product data flywheels
“There are probably only two problems where you can work on AI and also build product at the same time. One is like search, and the other is self-driving car.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 2:55 How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most Perplexity follow-up queries are completely irrelevant to the initial search
“Most of the follow-up queries actually we see are, like, completely irrelevant to the first query, because they just want to keep continuing the session.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 22:01 How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2025
Assertion Supported
Perplexity's co-founders met after publishing the identical paper a day apart
“We had written the same paper a day apart, so we knew each other, and he was a visiting student in my lab”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 5:27 How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2025
Disclosure
Srinivas initially pitched seed investor Elad Gil on smart glasses, not search
“I was like, adoshes enough to go and pitch to the first seed investor of ours, Elad Gill, that like, hey, like you know, I want to disrupt Google but I kind of want to do it from pixels from a glass”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 6:43 How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Perplexity is slowing its development speed to protect production reliability
“Well, it's beginning to happen already a little bit, right? We're not as fast as we used to be. I think some of it is not because of people. It's also because things breaking in production, people start losing trust in the product.”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 25:41 How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
Jul 11, 2025 positive
Opinion
Srinivas: Autonomous mobile AI agents can only be built inside web browsers
“And agents can only be built with a browser. I, I'm very, like, convinced about that vision, that if you want to have a mobile agent, That you can actually build and implement without being restricted by whatever OS rules that Apple or Google sets in terms of …”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 36:10 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
Jul 11, 2025 negative
Opinion
Srinivas: There is still no good way to search X
“There still is no good way to search over Twitter.”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 7:08 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
Jul 11, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Mobile apps will resist adopting MCP servers for AI
“Expecting every mobile app to have MCP servers and then, like, connecting all their data to your thing, It's not going to be that straightforward. Like, nobody wants to be disintermediated by an AI that quickly.”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 36:29 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
Jul 11, 2025 positive
Insight
Srinivas: AI search should offer all perspectives on subjective topics
“Now there are things that don't have one clear accurate answer. I think they're the best thing we can do is offer all the perspectives. And not really take a clear opinion on like what is right and wrong when there's no clear answer to that question.”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 40:25 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
Jul 11, 2025 positive
Opinion
Srinivas: Browsers are the natural graduation step from search engines
“And browser and search are not two distinctive products. They're actually, like, the browser is a natural graduation step from search. Just like how Google graduated from Google search to Chrome. And Chrome is the main reason they got billions of daily queries…”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 35:41 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
Jul 11, 2025 bearish
Insight
Srinivas: Foundation model labs will copy any high-revenue AI startup idea
“You should assume that if you have a big hit, if your company is something that can make revenue on the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars, or potentially billions of dollars, you should always assume that a model company will copy it. Mainly because the…”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 30:26 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
Jul 11, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity started without a clear idea, defying YC advice
“We started the company without actually having clear idea of what to build, which is the opposite of what YC advice is, which is start from a project and turn it into a company.”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 6:07 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
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