Aravind Srinivas is the Founder and CEO of Perplexity, one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world. Since the start of the year, Perplexity has tripled revenue to well over $500M in ARR. Aravind has raised over $1BN for the company with reported valuations reaching $20BN. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:25 — From Lower-Middle-Class India to a $20B AI Company 03:04 — “Attack, Attack, Attack”: Aravind’s Founder Mentality 04:06 — Why Perplexity Forced Google to Change Search Forever 08:27 — OpenAI, Agents & Where the Money Actually Is 12:05 — “The Model Is Not the Product” 18:42 — AI Agents Will Generate More Revenue Than Google Ads? 27:03 — The Future of 24/7 AI Agents 32:50 — Why Perplexity Thinks It Can Become the Ultimate AI Orchestrator 34:57 — The Biggest AI Bottleneck Nobody Can Ignore: Power 43:18 — Can Inference Companies Become the Next $100B Giants? 48:57 — The Next Massive AI Bottleneck (and Why It’s Not Models) 54:04 — Di...