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

2672.561 - 2698.108 Aravind Srinivas

And there was this arbitrage that internet bust was happening at the time. And so a lot of PhDs who went and worked at other internet companies were available at not a great market rate. So you could spend less, get great talent like Jeff Dean and like, you know, really focused on building core infrastructure and like deeply grounded research and the obsession about latency.