# How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas

**Author:** David Lieb
**Type:** Video
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/MC-how-to-build-the-future-aravind-srinivas
**YouTube ID:** SP7Ua8FKZN4

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Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder & CEO of Perplexity, an AI search engine that's changing the way people discover
information.  
  
For this episode of How to Build the Future, YC General Partner David Lieb sat down with Aravind to discuss his Silicon
Valley origins, what it's like to compete with Google, and his vision for the future of search.

