Perplexity CEO warns over-planning kills startups, urges fast experimentation

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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas has identified over-planning as one of the most damaging habits a startup founder can have. He says his toughest lesson was unlearning the academic tendency to refine ideas on a whiteboard before taking action. Srinivas argues that films like 'A Beautiful Mind' promote a misleading image of genius that makes careful planning feel productive when it actually generates no useful information. His recommended approach is to launch small experiments quickly, observe real user behavior, and improve from there. According to him, only effort tested against reality — not polished strategy — yields genuine learning.

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