Perplexity Co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas, during his appearance on Nikhil Kamath's podcast, shared that his mother had always envisioned him studying at IIT Madras. "Every time we would go on a bus and pass by the IIT Madras campus, my mom would...say, 'This is where you're going to study'," he said. "That was the expectation," Srinivas recalled.