Molly Graham - Fight the fight 3 times
After the third attempt, you let it go.
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there are some fights you are simply not going to win. Sometimes the timing isn’t right. Sometimes the CEO needs to see the chosen path play out for themselves. Sometimes you are just wrong about what will happen next.
The reality is that most decisions inside a startup are experiments.
People like to say disagree and commit. I’ve always preferred a slightly more honest version:
Disagree and let’s see!
Spoiler - it's the same old change management / software adoption problem as always 💁♂️
So you're going to want to
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Check out my tracker spreadsheet here: Perplexity Table
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Perplexity baffles me!
It’s a fast-growing startup that has built a great product and is stirring competitive reactions from the likes of Google and OpenAI.
At the same time, it's sustainable competitive advantage is unclear, and it's saddled with growth expectations attached to a $3B valuation (maybe $9B).
To help wrap my had around Perplexity, I created a running 2 year timeline to understand where they've been and help me think through where they might be going.
Read on for a fully sourced timeline of Perplexity's rise, covering:
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