Overview

• The 31-year-old Chennai-born founder debuts on the M3M Hurun India Rich List 2025 as India’s youngest billionaire.
• Srinivas co-founded Perplexity in 2022 with Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski after IIT Madras and a UC Berkeley PhD and research roles at OpenAI, Google and DeepMind.
• Perplexity is positioned as a conversational, citation-first search engine challenging traditional link-based results.
• By mid-2025, coverage put Perplexity at a reported ~$18 billion valuation with more than 30 million active users.
• Recent updates include a reported Airtel deal offering Pro access to subscribers, the Comet AI browser for Pro users, and media reports of a $34.5 billion letter of intent for Google’s Chrome attributed to AFP.