Farouk Hussein
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Welcome to Orbit, the HG podcast series where we speak to leaders and innovators from across the software and tech ecosystem to discuss key trends that are changing the way that we all do business.
I'm Farouk Hussein, a partner at HG, focused on transatlantic software investing.
Today, we're diving into one of the most consequential questions in technology: Can anyone actually unseat Google and its search dominance?
For two decades,
Countless well-funded startups have tried and failed, but something different is happening in 2025.
Gen AI has created the first genuine opening in the search wars since Google itself disrupted the industry roughly 20 years ago.
And at the center of this battle is Perplexity AI, a company that's gone from obscurity to roughly 800 million monthly queries in fewer than three years.
But perplexity isn't just another ChatGPT clone with search bolted on.
They're building something fundamentally different, an answer engine that they believe will replace how we find information online.
And in July, they launched Comet, a native AI browser that went GA today.
I'm thrilled to be joined today by Dmitry Shevolenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity.
You joined the company in October of 2023, frankly, at a time when taking on Google seemed fairly unthinkable.
Um so thank you for joining us today.
Yeah.
So I think we met this summer at HG's um senior software leadership gathering in Lucerne, Switzerland.
You'll recall that Jeffrey Hinton was our keynote.
Love to um hear what I
That's right.
You did make it to the championship match and you lost to one of our partners, Chris Fielding.
And I think you promised fifty percent of the equity and perplexity if you lost, if I'm not mistaken.
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