Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, has weighed in on an ongoing debate about whether Google’s ecosystem of products can be disrupted.

The Indian-origin AI startup founder has said that while it is possible to challenge Google ’s dominance in some areas, there are certain products that are deeply entrenched and near-impossible to compete with.

“YouTube and Maps are the hardest. Maybe even impossible. The rest are hard but doable,” Srinivas said in a post on X. His remarks were in response to a user on X who posted a screenshot of various Google apps such as Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Drive, Photos, Calendar, Chrome, Meet, and Google TV with the caption: there is no way any start-up can beat the Google ecosystem.

Another user commented that YouTube and Google Maps are hard to challenge

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