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Aravind Srinivas
India 32 years old
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Artificial intelligence
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
Biography
Aravind Srinivas is the CEO and cofounder of AI search startup Perplexity, which hit a $20 billion valuation in 2025.
Perplexity uses a mix of AI models to summarize information from different websites and provides footnote-style citations to the source.
The startup is backed by investors including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, AI pioneer Yann LeCun and Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean.
Originally from Chennai, India, Srinivas cofounded Perplexity in August 2022 with Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho.
Before starting Perplexity in 2022, he worked as a researcher at companies like OpenAI and Google DeepMind.