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@alexanderparady4774
October 30, 2024 at 10:43 pm
Crazy adversarial interviewer, and Aravind frankly killed it with a calm and conscious answers through this new era of technology. Was in the room and you can tell the tech community’s energy is very behind him.
@jieminsworld3734
October 30, 2024 at 10:57 pm
Agreed! Omg.. I like TechCrunch less now because of this. I mean what’s right or wrong is up to the judge, but if they don’t like them, don’t have them there, is that hard?!
@alexanderparady4774
October 30, 2024 at 11:03 pm
@ they threw a great event this week and I think this was still very engaging conversation all withstanding. Seems like the interviewer may have had some personal grievance coming from a journalism background, but I think it brought about a very candid conversation which is welcomed.
@mriz
October 30, 2024 at 11:57 pm
@@jieminsworld3734journalist is not advertisement, duhh
@mriz
October 31, 2024 at 12:00 am
@@jieminsworld3734journalism is not advertisement, duh
@jieminsworld3734
October 31, 2024 at 12:12 am
@@mriz if you call this journalism that’s just laughable. Also audiences were in the room to get to know and learn from different founders from different backgrounds, whether right or wrong they could judge, not to be there watching you do “journalism”, thanks
@pramitmajumder6738
October 31, 2024 at 3:33 am
the interviewer will never build anything of consequence. his opinions dont matter. i wish he is put in his place soon. he was not coming from a place of curiosity but a place of motivated vengence
@DomWeb-v9j
November 5, 2024 at 11:00 pm
Those who can’t, write.
@DeepuAsok
October 31, 2024 at 5:27 am
Rooting for Perplexity! Phenomenal product.
@gimmedatthing7829
November 5, 2024 at 7:49 am
only cause you’re an indian
@DeepuAsok
November 5, 2024 at 11:16 am
@@gimmedatthing7829 I didn’t even know it was started by an Indian when I started using it. Also, unlike you, I don’t look up the race of the founder before using a product.
@DomWeb-v9j
November 5, 2024 at 10:59 pm
@@gimmedatthing7829lol you must be an artists or writer cuz only these two professions are butt hurt by perplexity
@sandeeepbandaru
October 31, 2024 at 7:19 am
Citations mean shit when you lift and place more than X% of the content.
@sandeeepbandaru
October 31, 2024 at 7:20 am
They need to take monetization seriously, it’s okay if companies fail to build great UIs, as long as their content is useful for the LLMs
@nish6106
October 31, 2024 at 1:11 pm
Its funny how Journalists get so pissed when talking to perplexity but be so soft when asking questions to Zuck or Sama while they be ripping the whole internet apart to train Llama and Chat GPT
@ankitmhatre1764
October 31, 2024 at 2:17 pm
Composed and Insightful. Way to go Aravind.
@MihirrPanchaal
October 31, 2024 at 3:19 pm
the interviewer doesnt even shake hands once the interview is over. Why so much shade dude?
@TimZaman
October 31, 2024 at 5:13 pm
What an embarassing interviewer. Decent questions but he doesn’t need to be such a hater
@gtleshow
November 1, 2024 at 12:10 am
Aravind out here talking about an AI-curated web while I’m still trying to get my AI to stop recommending 10-year-old cat videos
@abhiumn
November 1, 2024 at 3:44 am
What a buzzkill interviewer asking a LLMs based company why they are raising money? For infra, compute, training and inference. Could not have gotten a more uneducated interviewer. Decades of journalism experience my foot.
@ChrizzeeB
November 1, 2024 at 10:07 am
My god, this interviewer is an a-hole..
the quickfire round on acquisition offers? Why do a few lame tech journalists treat those transactions like tabloid gossip – and expect that he would divulge non-public info, heavily tied up in paperwork with third-parties.. what’s even the point?
@ChrizzeeB
November 1, 2024 at 10:10 am
On my last search in Google (my search bar default is now GPT Search),
there were:
top-4 results – SPONSORED
4 YT videos (full of Google ads)
next 3-results – SHITTY LISTICLES
bottom-3 results – SPONSORED
Google USED to be about finding the most apt and useful info. I guess that was a long time ago. They can just generate $150BN/year with these shenanigans instead..
And this interviewer finds so many problems with someone who tries to offer something better????
@tejasudha
November 1, 2024 at 11:56 am
Neither of us are lawyers
@rahulkhanna9660
November 1, 2024 at 12:26 pm
Perplexity rocks..
@broHanSolo
November 1, 2024 at 1:54 pm
It sounds pretty adversarial, but it’s kinda good for reporters to ask tough questions, and hopefully he keeps the same energy when talking to other leaders in the space. Also, wonderfully handled by Arvind tbh.
@warrenv.930
November 2, 2024 at 4:34 am
This is the WORST interviewer. Do better #TCDisrupt
@Breaking_Bold
November 2, 2024 at 10:09 am
Not good interviewer…he will not be able to extract Knowledge out of Arvinds experience..he lost an opportunity
@orkomaximus4989
November 2, 2024 at 10:46 am
Great mind.
@sugiv
November 3, 2024 at 1:44 am
Mr Senior Editor – Easy to ask questions and also written down questions, blah blah blah, oops. Perplexity and AI is great. Lets have editor agent ask questions next time with clear system prompt, dont be rude 🙂 How the heck this guy has survived as senior editor for 15 years.? Hehe Will this editor have the same body language and questions to Elon M?
@theglobaltruthseeker
November 3, 2024 at 2:49 am
The interviewer was a total embarrassment. Aravind was a class act!
@nirmalacharya5719
November 3, 2024 at 7:59 am
Total embrassment for the interviewer. Shame on you Senior Editor.
Aravind Srinivas completely Killed it with grace and calm. Perplexity is next revolution.
@aysuad
November 3, 2024 at 8:33 am
Absolute waste of time. Nobody from the event gets anything from these idiotic questions. The highlight of the event bit the dust by this shitty senior editor. Nice that Aravind answered with patience and with nose cuts. Senior psych spoiled the show.
@aliasgarjh
November 3, 2024 at 9:11 pm
#TCDisrupt, couldn’t you find a proper interviewer? Or is that the best you got?
@dudeabideth4428
November 4, 2024 at 2:01 am
AI to media/content industry
Let me work with you so that I can take over what you do ????
@droopy_eyes
November 4, 2024 at 7:11 am
Iconic how tech bros defend mr. Srinivas because they invested in AI bubble, like blockchain folks did in previous craze.
Trying to “call out” mr. Coldewey for confronting thief in silk gloves.
Just a reminder, you people believed in Theranos and Juicero as well.
@Facticly
November 6, 2024 at 7:49 am
After reading these comments they’re most likely paid for, or actually working for this scam artist boasting about replacing people striking for people he’d pay pennies on the dollar for.
@rohitsrao
November 5, 2024 at 8:15 am
That was one of the worst interviews I’ve ever seen. Seem like he just walked in with an agenda to discredit. I mean the question about why raise so much money is just ridiculous. The questions actually reveal more about the interviewer than Aravind. Admire the patience and well thought out answers from Aravind. Inspiring.
@aditube8781
November 7, 2024 at 4:53 am
who tf is this interviwer joker