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Perplexity
By Perplexity AI
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“What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?”
“What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Versel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?”
“early on things like creating the outline perplexity was actually great”
“as chatbt emerged over the past couple years as perplexity emerged”
“I did a interview with the founders of Perplexity a few years ago”
“I did a interview with the Perplexity founders.”
“used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear”
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“I did a a newsletter post with the company perplexity about how they build product”
“whether it's perplexity or whether it's Claude or whether it's meta”
“I love perplexity”
“it's a daily driver for me U it's on my home screen”
“by the way I love perplexity I I once tweeted a result I had when I was using perplexity”
“my other one which is very self-serving because they are a client but I do use them every day um is perplexity”
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