#aravind-srinivas
From 'lower middle class' Tamil family, he missed IIT Madras CSE by 0.01, was rejected by MIT. Today, he is the CEO of $20 billion AI startup
Aravind Srinivas, from a financially lower-middle-class Tamil family, missed Computer Science at IIT Madras by 0.01 CGPA and was later rejected by MIT. He turned the setbacks into motivation, topping a machine learning class and earning a PhD from UC Berkeley…
‘I have nothing to lose’: Perplexity CEO says fear of failure is ‘the stupidest thing’ holding you back
When fear of failure strikes, Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of AI giant Perplexity, reminds himself that just having a job was once the bar for success.