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Long before Perplexity challenged the
way people search for information,
Aravind Srinivas was studying
engineering at IIT Madras.
After graduating, he moved to the
United States to pursue research
in Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley.
He went on to work and conduct
research with some of the most
respected AI organizations in the world,
including DeepMind, Google Brain, and OpenAI.
In August 2022, he co-founded Perplexity AI.
Just a few months later, Perplexity
launched with a simple idea:
Give people direct answers backed by sources.
What started as a small startup
quickly became one of the
fastest-growing companies in AI.
By 2024, Perplexity had
reached unicorn status.
By 2025, Aravind Srinivas had become
one of the most recognized
founders in artificial intelligence.
But the most interesting part
of the story is not the valuation.
It is the years spent learning,
researching, and building before
most people had ever heard his name.
Every founder sees the headlines.
Few people see the decade
that came before them.
The breakthrough is usually visible.
The preparation rarely is.
And sometimes the difference between
an idea and a company is simply the
willingness to keep going long
enough to find out what is possible.