Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko on why curiosity is AI’s scarcest resource

About this episode

Dmitry Shevelenko discusses the role of curiosity in AI and the growth strategies of Perplexity.

Dmitry Shevelenko is Chief Business Officer at Perplexity. He previously co-founded Tortoise, a robotics and commerce automation startup and held business development roles at Uber, LinkedIn, and Meta. He also serves on the board of Lazard. In this episode of Summation, Dmitry and Auren discuss: Why CEOs and executives are Perplexity Computer’s biggest power users and what that says about who wins the AI eraScaling Perplexity past $500M ARR with only 34% headcount growthThe $34.5B Chrom...

People in this episode

Host: Auren Hoffman

Guest: Dmitry Shevelenko

Topics covered

• AI
• business development
• technology
• entrepreneurship
• scaling companies

Keywords

• AI
• Perplexity
• business development
• scaling
• technology
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Perplexity, Tortoise, Uber, LinkedIn, Meta, Lazard

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