Founder Profile
Aravind Srinivas
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Aravind Srinivas?
Aravind Srinivas is a founder of Perplexity AI, Inc., which was founded in 2022 with Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski.
- Company founded
- Perplexity AI, Inc.
- Founded
- 2022
- Co-founders
- Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski
Background
Studied electrical engineering at IIT Madras and earned a PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley. He held research roles at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Google Brain.
Founding Story
Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity in 2022 and has been CEO since then. Before that he was a research scientist at OpenAI, working on generative models and reinforcement learning. As CEO he has led the company through rounds that took its valuation from $520 million (January 2024) to $20 billion (September 2025). He also oversaw the launches of Comet and Computer. Aravind Srinivas was born in 1994.