Who is Sriram Krishnan: Elon Musk is implementing significant management changes at Twitter, assembling a team of advisors to assist him in running the show. Alex Spiro, Musk’s personal attorney who is acting as Twitter’s de facto general counsel, Andrew Musk (Musk’s relative who is affiliated with the brain-interface startup Neuralink), Jehn Balajadia (COO of The Boring Company), David Sacks (political donor), Jason Calacanis (a venture capitalist and longtime friend of Musk), and Sriram Krishnan are among those assisting him (a former Twitter product leader and current VC at Andreessen Horowitz).
Who is Sriram Krishnan?
In India, Krishnan was born in Chennai. Anna University’s SRM Engineering College awarded him his Bachelor’s in Information Technology. In 2003, he met his wife, Aarthi Ramamurthy, in college. Following his graduation in 2005, he relocated to the United States.
Krishnan is a well-known name in Silicon Valley, in addition to being a partner at Andreesen Horowitz, also known as a16z. He tweeted that he is “temporarily helping out Musk with Twitter with some other great people” and that “this is a tremendously important company that can have a significant impact on the world.”
According to a profile published in The New York Times last year, Krishnan and his wife, Aarthi Ramamurthy, were both born in Chennai and had “typical middle-class Indian upbringings.” As hosts of The Good Time Show on the social audio app Clubhouse, the couple also kept the party going. The show premiered in December 2020 and gained 175,000 subscribers quickly. Fans included Calvin Harris, Paris Hilton, and anyone interested in hearing tech entrepreneurs speak.
In 2003, the two met as college students studying to become software engineers. According to their profile, a mutual friend added them to a Yahoo! chat room to assist with a coding project. The couple then met S. Somasegar, an Indian-American technology executive at Microsoft at the time. In 2005, impressed, Somasegar hired both candidates. They began dating in 2006 and moved Microsoft’s headquarters to Seattle the following year.
Sriram has held managerial positions at Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook, and Snap, and was hired by Andreessen Horowitz, Clubhouse’s principal investor, earlier this year. As for Aarthi, she worked at Netflix before launching two start-ups: True and Co., an e-commerce site for lingerie, in 2012, and Lumoid, a service that enables consumers to try electronics before purchasing them. She joined Facebook in 2017 as a product director before leaving to join Clubhouse and help it expand internationally.
