Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas warned young founders that bigger companies will copy good ideas to explore new revenue streams, advising them to prepare for such challenges.
Srinivas emphasized the need for hard work and the likelihood that larger corporations will imitate successful models to capitalize on potential profits worth hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.
Perplexity, initially focused on providing precise answers from web searches, faced competition as other companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google released similar web browsing functionalities.
The discussion on tech giants copying innovative ideas emerged following the release of Perplexity's Comet browser and reports of OpenAI's development of a browser challenging Google Chrome.