Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: What would you do with 10,000 agents?
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-19
On the 20VC podcast, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argues people should ask: "assuming I have a lot of agency available, what do I actually do?" His framing: imagine being given the headcount of 10,000 people plus enough compute credits to run that many agents — most haven't figured out what tasks and arbitrage they'd point that capability at, and that's the real bottleneck of the agent era.
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