Aravind Srinivas

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, the world’s first generally available conversation answer engine. Founded in August 2022 with Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski, and Denis Yarats, Perplexity delivers accurate, sourced answers to any question. Born and raised in Chennai, India, Srinivas moved to the U.S. in 2017 and earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also taught a course in Deep Unsupervised Learning. He previously held prominent research roles at OpenAI, DeepMind, and Google, and he has positioned Perplexity as a leader in AI-powered information access with backing from top investors including Jeff Bezos, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, and many others. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Athletic Nicotine https://www.athleticnicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Atheneum is a new podcast on the Tetragrammatine Network.
0:10.0	Do you know about the connection between Charlie Manson and M.K. Ultra?
0:14.5	The U.S. government's mind control operation?
0:18.4	What if everything you thought you knew about the Manson murders was wrong?
0:23.6	Join Ayesha Akambi for a once-in-a-lifetime in-depth conversation with Tom O'Neill,
0:29.9	author of the runaway bestseller Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the 60s.
0:46.3	In this limited deep dive series, Tom O'Neill unpacks his 20-year investigation into the CIA's mind control program, linking it to Charles Manson and the disturbing secrets buried in America's history.
0:51.3	From missing FBI files to Hollywood cover-ups, government surveillance, LSD, and the dark
0:57.4	collapse of the 60s hippie dream.
1:00.9	This is the story behind the story.
1:04.0	It's not true crime.
1:05.5	It's true.
1:06.3	Chaos.
1:08.2	Hear it on Athenium, the new podcast on the Tetragrammaton podcast network, available wherever you get your podcasts.
1:16.2	Truth isn't just stranger than fiction. It's far more dangerous.
1:23.6	Coming soon on the Atheneum podcast.
1:32.9	Okay. Coming soon on the Athenian podcast. Tetrogrammitten.
1:37.8	Tetrackameter.
1:40.0	Tetrameterate.
1:40.1	Tetrameterate. Tremat. coding is certainly seen as like a burdensome thing by most people,
1:58.4	which is why there are very few software programmers in the world.
2:01.9	And the reason it's burdensome is because there's a lot of, you know,
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