Farouk Hussein

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Orbit - An Hg software leadership podcast · Trust, Velocity, and Building the Answer Engine: Dmitry Shevelenko of Perplexity speaks to Farouk Hussein · 28 Oct 2025 podcast

Is it a is it an IPO?

Is uh is what what is the end game in at least in that time frame?

Got it.

I listened to an interview that you did recently on science of scaling, where you talked about how you guys eat your own dog food, you use perplexity and I think other AI tools.

Um, how do you think about what are the right use cases to be leveraging perplexity, other AI tools?

How do you what kind of returns are you seeing on on those efforts?

Just how does perplexity use AI?

Do you guys have like a there's the Shopify Toby memo where he said, you know, no more hiring unless AI can't solve it first?

Is that something that you guys adopt or employ?

Any uh insights into a n the new AI first world that you've been able to divine from perplexities user behavior?

Makes a ton of sense.

So I think that was really helpful on perplexity.

Maybe zooming out.

So I think you know from our summit this summer, HG, we're software investors.

Uh, we invest in mostly vertical software, mission critical control points that are deeply embedded in customer workflows.

Our point of view is that long-term differentiation and value will accrue to um data and distribution and um really understanding.

You know, there there are folks that think that open AI moving up the stack and gonna try and attack kind of the application layer.

What's your perspective on kind of what happens long term in terms of where the model and frontier um players are are are going to move or what are their grand um plans?

I think it's very smart.

We're continuing to be very focused on product innovation and I think I think what you're saying is basically one of the new motes is just velocity, continuing to innovate, continuing to move very quickly, continuing to experiment.

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