Dmitry Shevelenko
CBO of Perplexity
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Sana Labs: Culture Carriers & Rebuilding Abroad (Valentino Pacifici)
The hosts wrap up their conversation with Valentino Pacifici of Sana Labs on expanding the company into new countries. He argues expansions should be led by top-performing "culture carriers" given full decision-making freedom, and that employer branding must be built intentionally with a "zero to one" approach — creating buzz inside targeted companies. He also reflects on the pressure of living up to the enormous early hype around Sana, before the hosts say goodbye.
Perplexity: Hybrid Inference, ARR Surge & the SMB Play (Dmitry Shevelenko)
Dmitry Shevelenko, CBO of Perplexity, breaks down the newly announced hybrid agentic inference orchestrator with Intel, which load-balances compute between local devices and the cloud for cost, security, and performance. He attributes Perplexity's jump from ~$450M to $500M+ ARR to usage-based billing on its agentic product — including one user now paying $100K a year — plus an upcoming SBA small-business partnership. He also covers Perplexity Finance's credibility with finance professionals, why the C-suite is the most engaged user cohort, and why small businesses reached through the consumer funnel will drive the future of business.