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Sridhar Ramaswamy is CEO and Co-founder of Neeva and a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners. Neeva is search re-imagined. It is subscription based and does not sell ads or track user behaviour…
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I felt strongly that search- as a product- was just going to continue to face more and more revenue pressure, forcing us to show more and more ads, and inevitably making the product worse over time.
— Sridhar RamaswamyFormer Google Executive & Founder of Perplexity AI
Search started as a free product meaning it cannot get any less expensive for the user. You pay nothing, but the benefits of reaching larger and larger portions of humanity accrue to the provider, not to you.
— Sridhar RamaswamyFormer Google Executive & Founder of Perplexity AI
I didn't like the rampant tracking and the fact that Google and Facebook effectively ran some of the largest information gathering networks on earth (and that's a very charitable way of describing it).
— Sridhar RamaswamyFormer Google Executive & Founder of Perplexity AI
In the long-term there is no way to reconcile the conflict of interest between serving the user and the advertiser.
— Sridhar RamaswamyFormer Google Executive & Founder of Perplexity AI
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