Yo, technology.

What is it all about?

What did I say when I first met with Aravind that was different?

Everybody else told him, like, well, Google got integrated into browsers,

so you should go figure out how to get integrated into browsers.

There's no way we win, you know, repeating somebody else's playbook from 25 years ago.

Yeah. when, you know, repeating somebody else's playbook from 25 years ago. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech this week.

We've got a great show.

On the program, his friend of the pod, Dmitri Shevalenko, who is the chief business officer of perplexity.

com.

Which, as you'll hear, I think is one of the AI startups that maybe, just maybe, will break through amidst the thousands of startups that are bubbling away

right now, most of which will not work. But if you will and become very, very, very big.

And perplexity is an interesting one to look at.

And it's interesting because they're taking on a little company called Google.

So what they have done is they've created a really powerful way to search the web.

You can check it out, perplexity.AI.

It's free.

It's basically a search window just like Google,

and you type in your question,

and it just spits out an answer.

So it's not 10 blue links.

There's no ads.

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