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Perplexity

privateBearish

Develops an AI-powered conversational search engine that provides sourced answers to user queries.perplexity.ai ↗

3 takes · first discussed May 17, 2024 · last Jul 11, 2025

Net conviction
Bearish
Who's weighed in
ChamathGSacks
Takes
3
First discussed
May 17, 2024

Private company — no public price to score. We track what they said; valuation-mark tracking is on the roadmap.

Where they stand now

ChamathChamath
Mixed

Chamath believes building a browser is a stupid capital allocation decision for Perplexity in 2025, and instead argues Perplexity's best path to a durable, high-value business is to replace Bloomberg in financial data and information, a $100B+ opportunity they are well-positioned to capture.

E235 · Jul 11, 20251 take ↓
SacksSacks
Bearish

Sacks argues that Google copying Perplexity's AI-overview search format with citations effectively kills Perplexity's standalone business unless it gets acquired.

E179 · May 17, 20241 take ↓
GGuests
Bearish

Keith Rabois argues that absent a successful agentic browser pivot, Perplexity is toast as ChatGPT becomes the dominant consumer AI verb, though he acknowledges the Comet browser is a sensible Hail Mary attempt.

E235 · Jul 11, 20251 take ↓

The discussion

The hosts are broadly bearish on Perplexity's standalone prospects, though they disagree on the right path forward. Sacks (high conviction, 2024) argued that Google's adoption of Perplexity's citation-based search format effectively commoditized its core product, leaving acquisition as the only viable exit. Guest Keith Rabois (medium conviction, 2025) extends that pessimism, warning that ChatGPT's dominance as the consumer AI "verb" renders Perplexity toast unless its Comet browser pivot succeeds — a bet he views as a sensible but long-shot Hail Mary. Chamath (mixed conviction, 2025) agrees the core search business is in trouble but breaks with Rabois on the browser strategy, calling it a poor use of capital and instead arguing Perplexity's best durable opportunity is displacing Bloomberg in financial data — a $100B+ market he believes they are well-positioned to capture.

How they got there

ChamathChamath1 take since Jul 11, 2025
MixedE235Jul 11, 2025⚑

Chamath believes building a browser is a stupid capital allocation decision for Perplexity in 2025, and instead argues Perplexity's best path to a durable, high-value business is to replace Bloomberg in financial data and information, a $100B+ opportunity they are well-positioned to capture.

Building a browser is an absolutely stupid capital allocation decision. Just totally stupid and unjustifiable in 2025. Specifically for Perplexity, I think their path to building a legacy business is to replace Bloomberg... I think it's”52:27
SacksSacks1 take since May 17, 2024
BearishE179May 17, 2024⚑

Sacks argues that Google copying Perplexity's AI-overview search format with citations effectively kills Perplexity's standalone business unless it gets acquired.

Sucks for Perplexity. I think they're kind of screwed now unless they get an acquisition deal. But Perplexity came up with the idea of having citations in your search result with citations and related questions. And they did it extremely”1:32:43
GGuests1 take since Jul 11, 2025
BearishE235Jul 11, 2025⚑

Keith Rabois argues that absent a successful agentic browser pivot, Perplexity is toast as ChatGPT becomes the dominant consumer AI verb, though he acknowledges the Comet browser is a sensible Hail Mary attempt.

I think absent something like this, Perplexity is toast. Like for the stat about ChatGPT going to a billion users, like it's becoming the verb... There's nothing left of perplexity if they can't pull this off.”48:47
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