His mother had always wanted him to attend IIT Madras, Mr. Srinivas revealed.

On Nikhil Kamath’s WTF Online show, Aravind Srinivas, co-founder of Perplexity, talked about his work and personal life, including his early influences, his time in Bengaluru, and his eventual venture into artificial intelligence.

His mother had always wanted him to attend IIT Madras, Mr. Srinivas revealed.

‘This is where you’re going to study,’ my mother would say whenever we passed the IIT Madras campus on a bus. It was an expectation, not even a suggestion,” he recounted.

Mr. Srinivas acknowledged that he hardly ventured out of his three-week internship in Bengaluru, preferring to remain indoors. He blamed the notorious traffic in Bengaluru for this choice. Read more »