The Economic Times

How to find what you are naturally good at? Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas shares the career advice from Sam Altman that changed his life

Perplexity AI founder Aravind Srinivas credits OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with career advice that helped shape his approach to work: focus on things that come naturally to you but are difficult for others. Srinivas says his experience winning a Kaggle competition at IIT Madras, despite having limited machine-learning knowledge at the time, helped him recognise this strength. His journey through UC Berkeley, OpenAI, Google Brain and DeepMind eventually led to the launch of Perplexity in 2022.