Aravind Srinivas is Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Perplexity AI, an AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, sourced answers to user queries. Born in Chennai, India, Srinivas is pioneering the future of information discovery as an alternative to traditional search engines.

Srinivas earned a dual degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras and a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley under AI pioneer Pieter Abbeel. He worked as a research scientist at OpenAI, Google Brain, and DeepMind, focusing on machine learning, reinforcement learning, and generative models including contributions to DALL-E 2.

Srinivas published 9 papers during his time at IIT Madras in top AI conferences including ICLR, AAAI, and NeurIPS. He is an angel investor in 8 startups and has been recognized as India's youngest billionaire on the 2025 M3M Hurun India Rich List.

Perplexity has raised over $1.22 billion in funding, reaching a $20 billion valuation as of September 2025 with investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and SoftBank Vision Fund. The platform processes 780 million queries monthly and generates approximately $200 million in annual recurring revenue.

Under Srinivas' leadership, Perplexity grew from launch in December 2022 to 30 million monthly active users and unicorn status within two years. The company launched innovative products including Perplexity Pro, Enterprise solutions, Comet AI browser, and a Shopping Hub, challenging Google's search dominance.