Why they are on the map
CEO per Wikipedia source — evidence dated 2026
Decides whether the problem is funded.
How Perplexity buys data
Hiring 'Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals)' (Apr 2026, infra-focused, no human raters mentioned), 'Search Quality Analyst' (Sep 2026) and 'Data Acceleration' (Jul 2026). No human-data vendors publicly named.
AI Research & Systems org (post-training, answer quality/evals) under CTO Denis Yarats; separate Search and Data Science orgs.
Full dossier pending
This person was mapped in pass 1. Career, what they have said on the record, interviews, connections, why they matter to us and how to reach them are added in pass 2.