Dmitry Shevelenko is Chief Business Officer at Perplexity. He previously co-founded Tortoise, a robotics and commerce automation startup and held business development roles at Uber, LinkedIn, and Meta. He also serves on the board of Lazard. 

In this episode of Summation, Dmitry and Auren discuss:

• Why CEOs and executives are Perplexity Computer’s biggest power users and what that says about who wins the AI era
• Scaling Perplexity past $500M ARR with only 34% headcount growth
• The $34.5B Chrome bid and the TikTok bid before it
• Why AI's biggest constraint right now is adoption and not capability

You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Dmitry Shevelenko on X at @dmitry140