Perplexity CEO shares what he learned from Jensen Huang and Elon Musk about working.
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Perplexity's CEO shared two unusual pieces of advice he learned from the leaders of two of the world's biggest companies.On an episode of the "20VC" podcast released on Monday, Aravind Srinivas said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk taught him two important entrepreneurship lessons that stuck with him.Srinivas cofounded AI search engine Perplexity in 2022 after working as a researcher at Google's DeepMind and OpenAI. In August, Business Insider reported that the company was seeking fresh funding at a $20 billion post-money valuation. The startup's investors include SoftBank, Nvidia, and Jeff Bezos.On Monday's podcast, he said that he learned the importance of always staying on your toes from Huang."Think about it. $5 trillion, guaranteed to make $500 billion in revenue in the next two years. He has the most advanced chips in the world," he said, about Nvidia. "And he operates with the mentality that he could be 30 days away from going out of business. That is what it takes to be Jensen Huang."Srinivas added that Huang also tells others around him that the chip company is a month away from going out of business.From Musk, he took away the importance of working for more than the money.
