#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

2140.014 - 2169.542 Aravind Srinivas

Why did Amazon build the cloud business before Google did, even though Google had the greatest distributed systems engineers ever, like Jeff Dean and Sanjay, and built the whole MapReduce thing? server racks because cloud was a lower margin business than advertising. There's literally no reason to go chase something lower margin instead of expanding whatever high margin business you already have.