Our guest is Philippe Mizrahi, CEO of Linkup: a french startup building the world's best search agents.

In our conversation, Philippe first shares how he got into search by building an internal dataset search tool at Lyft. We then dive into Linkup where Phil explains how linkup started, how it evolved and how they managed to build the best search agents achieving state-of-the-art results on OpenAI SimpleQA dataset.

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Link to Linkup: https://www.linkup.so/

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(00:00) Intro

(03:13) How Philippe Got into AI

(06:03) Building Lyft’s Internal Search Tool

(11:40) How Linkup Started

(16:10) How to use Linkup

(21:55) Search Agents

(31:58) Competing with OpenAI Operator

(36:47) Use Cases of Linkup

(42:28) Phil's Challenges as a CEO

(51:06) Career Advice