Monday, 6 July, 2026
"Bill Gates Tricked Us": Perplexity CEO Says Desk Jobs Were Just a Microsoft Sales Ploy
By TechShots Studio
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the modern 9-to-5 desk job was a corporate strategy engineered by Bill Gates. He argued Microsoft deliberately built the concept of the "office worker" to hook generations on Word and Excel and sell software. Srinivas contrasted this profit-driven approach with Steve Jobs' vision of creating inherently beautiful computing.
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