Aravind Srinivas

They had like deep academic grounding, very different from the other founders who are more like undergraduate dropouts trying to do a company. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, they all fit in that sort of mold. Larry and Sergey were the ones who were like Stanford PhDs trying to like have those academic roots and yet trying to build a product that people use.

They had like deep academic grounding, very different from the other founders who are more like undergraduate dropouts trying to do a company. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, they all fit in that sort of mold. Larry and Sergey were the ones who were like Stanford PhDs trying to like have those academic roots and yet trying to build a product that people use.

And Larry Page has inspired me in many other ways too. Like, When the product started getting users, I think instead of focusing on going and building a business team, marketing team, the traditional how internet businesses worked at the time, he had the contrarian insight to say, hey, search is actually going to be important. So I'm going to go and hire as many PhDs as possible.

And Larry Page has inspired me in many other ways too. Like, When the product started getting users, I think instead of focusing on going and building a business team, marketing team, the traditional how internet businesses worked at the time, he had the contrarian insight to say, hey, search is actually going to be important. So I'm going to go and hire as many PhDs as possible.

And Larry Page has inspired me in many other ways too. Like, When the product started getting users, I think instead of focusing on going and building a business team, marketing team, the traditional how internet businesses worked at the time, he had the contrarian insight to say, hey, search is actually going to be important. So I'm going to go and hire as many PhDs as possible.

And there was this arbitrage that internet bust was happening at the time. And so a lot of PhDs who went and worked at other internet companies were available at not a great market rate. So you could spend less, get great talent like Jeff Dean and like, you know, really focused on building core infrastructure and like deeply grounded research and the obsession about latency.

And there was this arbitrage that internet bust was happening at the time. And so a lot of PhDs who went and worked at other internet companies were available at not a great market rate. So you could spend less, get great talent like Jeff Dean and like, you know, really focused on building core infrastructure and like deeply grounded research and the obsession about latency.

And there was this arbitrage that internet bust was happening at the time. And so a lot of PhDs who went and worked at other internet companies were available at not a great market rate. So you could spend less, get great talent like Jeff Dean and like, you know, really focused on building core infrastructure and like deeply grounded research and the obsession about latency.

That was, you take it for granted today, but I don't think that was obvious. I even read that at the time of launch of Chrome, Larry would test Chrome intentionally on very old versions of Windows on very old laptops and complained that the latency is bad. Obviously, the engineers could say, yeah, you're testing on some crappy laptop, that's why it's happening.

That was, you take it for granted today, but I don't think that was obvious. I even read that at the time of launch of Chrome, Larry would test Chrome intentionally on very old versions of Windows on very old laptops and complained that the latency is bad. Obviously, the engineers could say, yeah, you're testing on some crappy laptop, that's why it's happening.

That was, you take it for granted today, but I don't think that was obvious. I even read that at the time of launch of Chrome, Larry would test Chrome intentionally on very old versions of Windows on very old laptops and complained that the latency is bad. Obviously, the engineers could say, yeah, you're testing on some crappy laptop, that's why it's happening.

But Larry would say, hey, look, it has to work on a crappy laptop so that on a good laptop, it would work even with the worst internet. So that's sort of an insight. I apply it like whenever I'm on a flight, I always test perplexity on the flight Wi-Fi because flight Wi-Fi usually sucks. And I want to make sure the app is fast even on that. And I benchmark it against ChatGPT or...

But Larry would say, hey, look, it has to work on a crappy laptop so that on a good laptop, it would work even with the worst internet. So that's sort of an insight. I apply it like whenever I'm on a flight, I always test perplexity on the flight Wi-Fi because flight Wi-Fi usually sucks. And I want to make sure the app is fast even on that. And I benchmark it against ChatGPT or...

But Larry would say, hey, look, it has to work on a crappy laptop so that on a good laptop, it would work even with the worst internet. So that's sort of an insight. I apply it like whenever I'm on a flight, I always test perplexity on the flight Wi-Fi because flight Wi-Fi usually sucks. And I want to make sure the app is fast even on that. And I benchmark it against ChatGPT or...

Gemini or any of the other apps and try to make sure that like the latency is pretty good. It's funny.

Gemini or any of the other apps and try to make sure that like the latency is pretty good. It's funny.

Gemini or any of the other apps and try to make sure that like the latency is pretty good. It's funny.

And every detail matters. Like on the search bar, you could make the user go to the search bar and click to start typing a query. or you could already have the cursor ready and so that they can just start typing. Every minute detail matters and auto scroll to the bottom of the answer instead of them forcing them to scroll.

And every detail matters. Like on the search bar, you could make the user go to the search bar and click to start typing a query. or you could already have the cursor ready and so that they can just start typing. Every minute detail matters and auto scroll to the bottom of the answer instead of them forcing them to scroll.

And every detail matters. Like on the search bar, you could make the user go to the search bar and click to start typing a query. or you could already have the cursor ready and so that they can just start typing. Every minute detail matters and auto scroll to the bottom of the answer instead of them forcing them to scroll.