By India Today Education Desk
Publication Date: 2026-04-13 10:17:00
There comes a moment in working life when routine begins to feel heavier than ambition. The desk, the deadlines, the repetition, all of it quietly builds into a question many hesitate to voice: is this what I want to keep doing? From a glass tower in Mumbai to office clusters in Delhi, Noida, Gurugram, Bengaluru and Pune, the thought arrives in similar ways, a passing idea of doing something of one’s own, often dismissed as impractical.
It is within this familiar hesitation that Aravind Srinivas, the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, places a different argument. Speaking on the All-In podcast, Srinivas suggested that the rise of artificial intelligence, even with its disruption, could open a pathway many have quietly imagined but rarely pursued.
“Most people don’t enjoy their jobs,” he said. “There’s suddenly a new possibility, a new opportunity, to go use these tools, learn them, and start your own mini business.” He added that even if job losses occur in the short term, “that sort of glorious future is what we should look forward to.”
His words do not dismiss fear. They acknowledge it, but attempt to reframe it, not as an end, but as a forced beginning.
A SHIFT IN HOW WORK IS BEING UNDERSTOOD
What emerges in its place, according to this line of thinking, is a more fragmented but potentially more independent ecosystem. AI tools now allow individuals to write, design, code, analyse and even manage operations that once required teams.
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