This product by Perplexity AI has come up 4 times across 3 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Aravind Srinivas, Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, Seth Godin. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-06-19 and the most recent from 2026-03-12. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Joe Rogan Experience #2467 - Michael Pollan
“I set up Perplexity on my phone and I have it right there and then I write on the computer... whoa, it's so much better than a Google search”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Michael Pollan: Bestselling author of food and psychedelics books like 'How to Change Your Mind' and 'The Omnivore's Dilemma.' He teaches writing and reports immersively on science, diet, and the mind. Michael Pollan joins Joe Rogan to explore consciousness, plant intelligence, psychedelics, AI sentience, and the gut microbiome.
Seth Godin — This is Strategy
“I use perplexity exclusively I almost never do a search with a search engine”— Seth Godin
The guest here is Seth Godin: Bestselling author and marketing thinker (Permission Marketing, This Is Strategy), creator of the altMBA and the strategy deck of cards. Seth Godin reframes strategy as a philosophy of becoming built on systems, time, games, and empathy.
Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler | Lex Fridman Podcast #444
“let me give a shout out to perplexity that I'm using here for to uh to sort of summarize and take quick notes ... which is extremely useful”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Vejas Liulevicius: A historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe who has lectured extensively on the rise, reign, and fall of communism. He grew up in a Lithuanian American family in Chicago and authored 'The German Myth of the East' (Oxford University Press). Historian Vejas Liulevicius traces the ideas and atrocities of communism and Nazism, from Marx to Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and modern Russia.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434
“so you know I got together with my co-founders Dennis and Johnny and all we wanted to do was build cool products with llms”— Aravind Srinivas
The guest here is Aravind Srinivas: Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine that backs every answer with citations. Formerly a Berkeley PhD student and AI researcher at DeepMind, Google, and OpenAI. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on building an answer engine, how search and LLMs combine, and the future of AI reasoning.
