Sriram Krishnan

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Sriram Krishnan is an American investor and partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.  His investments include Atlys and he serves on the boards of companies including Hopin.  He previously led product teams at Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo!, Facebook, and Snap. He rose to additional prominence in 2021 for leading the “Good Time Show” Clubhouse chat show with his wife that has featured Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Virgil Abloh, as well as Steve Balmer calling from his hot tub.[1][2][3][4] In early 2022, Variety reported that WME was representing the "tech power couple" of Krishnan and spouse Aarthi Ramamurthy in film and television projects, as well as additional podcasting work.[5]

Sriram Krishnan
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 - Day 1 (cropped) - Sriram Krishnan.jpg
Born
Chennai, India
OccupationInvestor, Clubhouse host
Spouse(s)Aarthi Ramamurthy

Early life and education[]

Krishan was born in Chennai, India.[1]

Career[]

Early career[]

In 2007, he began working at Microsoft where he served as a program manager for Visual Studio.  At Facebook, Sriram built the Facebook Audience Network, a competitive platform to Google’s ad technologies.[6][7][8] At Snap he built the company’s ad tech platform shortly before its IPO. He then joined Twitter, where he served as senior director of product and contributed to the core user experience, driving a 20% annual user growth rate and launching a redesigned home page and events experience.[9][10][11]

The Good Time Show[]

In early 2021, Krishnan and his wife, Aarthi Ramamurthy, launched a Clubhouse talk show that “focuses on organic conversations on anything from startups to venture capitalism and cryptocurrencies."[12] An early appearance by Elon Musk on The Good Time Show was described as the first show that “broke Clubhouse”[13] by rapidly exceeding the limit of 5,000 simultaneous users.  The desire to interact with a larger community led to a variety of later innovations to allow streaming and replaying of Clubhouse chats.  On that episode, Elon Musk grilled Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev regarding the GameStop trading controversy.[14]  As of December 2021, the show had over 187,000 subscribers, plus 735,000 subscribers between Krishnan and Ramamurthy's personal Clubhouse accounts.[15][1]  During Krishnan’s interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg described augmented and virtual reality as the future of work, alluding to the then-unannounced Meta concept. Additional guests have included Tony Hawk, Diane von Furstenberg, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja,[2] Kanye West,[12] and MrBeast; other topics have included emerging issues such as ConstitutionDAO.[15][16]

Andreessen Horowitz[]

Krishnan was appointed a general partner of American venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”) in February 2021.[17]  He is anticipated to serve consumer and social markets, however he has also theorized on the impact of “deep tech” on society.[18] His investments through a16z include Atlys.[19]

Personal life[]

Krishnan is married to Aarthi Ramamurthy, co-host of The Good Time Show and a serial entrepreneur.  They met in college in 2003 through a Yahoo! chat room related to a coding project and began dating in 2006.[1] They live in San Francisco.[20]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Hawgood, Alex (2021-07-30). "These Clubhouse Hosts Are Keeping the Party Alive". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  2. ^ a b "How Sriram Krishnan and Aarthi Ramamurthy Blew Up on Clubhouse". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  3. ^ Newton, Casey (2021-02-01). "Elon Musk just showed how Clubhouse can succeed". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  4. ^ "'Developers, developers, developers!' Ballmer and Sinofsky talk Microsoft, memes, more in Clubhouse". GeekWire. 2021-02-12. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  5. ^ https://variety.com/2022/film/news/wme-signs-sriram-krishnan-aarthi-ramamurthy-1235146180/
  6. ^ Carson, Biz. "Snapchat just poached a key ad exec from Facebook to turn on the money jets". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  7. ^ Wagner, Kurt (2016-02-29). "Snapchat Hires Exec Who Ran Facebook's Ad Network". Vox. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  8. ^ D'Onfro, Jillian. "How an 'oddball' team created one of Facebook's biggest threats to Google". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  9. ^ "Snap, Facebook, Pop: Sriram Krishnan joins Twitter as senior director of product". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  10. ^ PTI (2017-09-23). "From Facebook, Snap, Now to Twitter: Sriram Krishnan | Siliconeer". Siliconeer. Retrieved 2021-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Feiner, Lauren (2020-02-06). "Twitter shares soar after reporting strong user numbers and miss on earnings". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  12. ^ a b International, Business Insider. "Kanye West and Elon Musk are slated to appear on a Clubhouse talk show hosted by a Facebook employee and her VC husband". Business Insider México | Noticias pensadas para ti (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  13. ^ King, Hope (2021-02-01). "Elon Musk admits 'talking smack' about Lidar". Medium. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  14. ^ LaPorte, Nicole (2021-08-10). "Inside the only late-night talk show that breaks news". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  15. ^ a b Conger, Kate (21 December 2021). "How the Copycats Came for Clubhouse". The New York Times.
  16. ^ "Clubhouse Surpasses 10 Million Users After Musk, Zuckerberg, Rogan, and MrBeast Join and Starts Drawing More Scrutiny". Voicebot.ai. 2021-02-23. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  17. ^ "Social platform veteran Sriram Krishnan is Andreessen Horowitz's latest general partner". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  18. ^ "How can we define deep tech?". TechSPARK. 2021-04-01. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  19. ^ "Atlys raises $4.25M to make visa applications faster and easier". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  20. ^ "You Should Know: Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan". Guest of a Guest. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
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