“Everyone’s the CEO of their own life. Perplexity is the CFO.” Aravind Srinivas, CEO and Co-Founder of Perplexity, sits down with JD Durkin at Money 20/20 USA in Las Vegas to explain how AI is evolving from answering questions to running tasks in the background, from tracking your spending to helping build your own personal Bloomberg terminal. Srinivas makes the surprising case that people don’t actually want AI agents making purchases for them. They want AI to do the research, comparing thousands of websites and reviews so they can decide with confidence. He breaks down how Perplexity earns that trust through accuracy, citations that trace every number back to its source and secure connections to personal financial data. He also explains why Perplexity wants to be “the Switzerland of AI,” a model-neutral platform that works with every major AI provider instead of competing with them, and what excites him most about the future: AI that can tackle questions about the unknown.