How Perplexity Built a $9B Search Company in 24 Months
Perplexity challenged Google Search and reached $9B in 24 months. Here's the growth playbook, the moat, and what founders can learn from it.
Field notes from four reinventions — a $200M exit, two unicorns, and building AI-native. Published as I learn.
Perplexity challenged Google Search and reached $9B in 24 months. Here's the growth playbook, the moat, and what founders can learn from it.
ARC-AGI-3 scored every AI model under 1% on reasoning tasks humans ace. Here is why founders shipping AI agents are not losing sleep over it.
Bloomberg says Anthropic may IPO by October. Combined with the DOD ruling and agentic commerce explosion, this signals a fundamental shift for founders.
The most capital-efficient, fastest-moving companies in 2026 are increasingly built by solo founders armed with AI. Here's why the economics have flipped.
Every few months, a new wave of AI tools emerges that doesn't just improve existing software — it makes entire categories redundant.
The hardest part of entrepreneurship is not building — it is walking away from something that works to chase something that matters more.
Every enterprise wants AI. Almost none are ready for it. The gap between AI ambition and AI readiness is the biggest opportunity in tech today.
After backing two unicorns and dozens of startups, the patterns are clear. The best founders share traits that have nothing to do with pedigree.
Seven years building India's largest real estate platform taught me that the best businesses solve problems people did not know they had.
The next wave of AI is not chatbots — it is autonomous agents that act on your behalf. This changes everything about how personal brands operate.
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