Video YouTube - 2/21/2025

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we release the ability to ask follow-up questions that double the engagement time on the site and also increase the number of questions every day so I was like okay there's something here it's not worth killing and pivoting to Enterprise it was not like I want to go and kill Google like that sort of a motivation it was more like what is an idea of that scale and ambition is something like this today my view of perplexity is a more intelligent Google search that's really useful in certain scenarios what do you want me to think it it in 3 or 4 [Music] years welcome back to another episode of how to build the future today we're joined by Arvin shavas co-founder and CEO of perplexity which in less than three years has grown to more than a N9 billion valuation thanks for joining us thank you for having me David how did you get into this world I was pretty interested in AI deep learning research uh that's actually what got me into the US I was an underr in India came here to the US for doing my PhD here at Berkeley life really changed when I got to do an internship at open aai and Ilia s was there I still remember the day I first met him and I was very prepared and had all these fancy ...