Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas has revealed a piece of career advice he received from OpenAI’s Sam Altman years ago\u2014one that he says shaped his confidence in machine learning and, eventually, his path to building a billion-dollar AI company. In a podcast conversation that recently went viral on X, Srinivas recalled asking Altman a direct question: how do you figure out what you’re naturally good at?<\/p>\n
Altman’s answer was disarmingly simple\u2014pursue whatever comes easy to you but seems hard to other people. It’s a heuristic that flips the usual “follow your passion” advice on its head, and Srinivas says it put words to something he’d already experienced firsthand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas has revealed a piece of career advice he received from OpenAI’s Sam Altman years ago\u2014one that he says shaped his confidence in machine learning and, eventually, his path to building a billion-dollar AI company. In a podcast conversation that recently went viral on X, Srinivas recalled asking Altman a direct question: how do you figure out what you’re naturally good at? Altman’s answer was disarmingly simple\u2014pursue whatever comes easy to you but seems hard to other people. It’s a heuristic that flips the usual “follow your passion” advice on its head, and Srinivas says it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}