Sriram Krishnan is an American software engineer and technologist of Indian origin. As of 2022, he is an investor and partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He came into limelight in 2022 when he tweeted that he was assisting Elon Musk in revamping Twitter after Musk acquired the company.
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Sriram Krishnan was born on Friday, 13 September 1985 (age 37 years; as in 2022) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His zodiac sign is Virgo.
Sriram Krishnan with his father in childhood
He did his schooling from Sir M. Venkatasubba Rao Matriculation Higher Secondary School, T. Nagar, Chennai. While growing up, Krishnan aspired to become a writer. After completing his schooling, he joined SRM Engineering College, Anna University to pursue B.Tech in Information Technology (2001-2005). After completing his graduation, he moved to America and later settled in San Francisco, California.
Physical Appearance
Height: 6′ 5″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
Sriram hails from a middle-class family in Chennai.
parents and siblings
Sriram’s father worked in an insurance company and his mother was a housewife.
wife and children
Sriram Krishnan eloped with Aarti Ramamurthy from Seattle in 2010 and moved to Palo Alto. On September 6 of the same year, both of them got married to each other. Aarti Ramamurthy is an American entrepreneur, talk show host, and internet celebrity who has worked at Netflix and Facebook. Together, the couple have a daughter, Indra Olivia Ram, born in 2019, and a son, Vishnu Ram, born in 2022.
Sriram Krishnan and his wife Aarti Ramamurthy
Sriram Krishnan with his daughter Indra Olivia Ram
Sriram Krishnan with his wife Aarti Ramamurthy and son Vishnu Ram
Sriram Krishnan with his family
relationships/affairs
Sriram Krishnan and his wife Aarti Ramamurthy first met Yahoo! But met. Chatroom setup for coding projects. In 2003, they met in person at SRM Engineering College; Both of them were studying software engineering at that time. They initially became friends and started dating each other in 2006.
livelihood
Sriram Krishnan began his career at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington in 2005 as a program manager for Visual Studio. At Microsoft, most of his work was for its API/Services Windows Azure division. He worked there for about 6 years and resigned from his post in May 2011. In 2013, he joined Facebook (now Meta) as a program manager and worked on the Facebook Audience Network, a competing platform to Google’s ad technologies that creates mobile advertising products. Which later became one of the largest networks in display advertising. From 2016 to 2017, Sriram held managerial positions at Snap Inc. and led various revenue product and monetization efforts. He has also worked at Yahoo! For some time.
Sriram Krishnan at TechCrunch 2017
In 2017, he joined microblogging and social networking company Twitter as senior director of product. As a part of his job at Twitter, Sriram helped develop a core user experience by redesigning the home page. Working on Twitter’s main Timeline, Sriram was responsible for building the new UI for the platform, discovery, and audience growth, among other things. He has also made several investments and served as an advisor to companies including Figma, Notion, Cameo, Coda, VSCO, Scale.AI, SpaceX, CRED, and Khatabook. In 2021, Sriram joined Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) as a general partner; Andreessen Horowitz is a lead investor in Clubhouse, a social audio app. The company also invested in Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Krishnan serves on the boards of companies such as Bitsky, Hopin and Polywork. He also hosts a podcast called The Good Time Show with his wife Aarti Ramamurthy. On the show, he talks about technology and crypto and hosts interesting conversations with his guests, which usually include innovators related to technology and culture. On the show, Sriram has invited many notable personalities like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Kanye West and Calvin Harris. The Good Time Show was first shown on Clubhouse and later moved to YouTube.
Sriram Krishnan hosting The Good Time Show with his wife
In 2022, Sriram helped Elon Musk revive Twitter after Musk acquired the microblogging platform. Krishnan confirmed through a tweet that he is helping Musk on Twitter, saying,
Now that the matter is out of the way: I’m temporarily helping @elonmusk at Twitter along with some other great people. I (and a16z) believe this is an extremely important company and can have a huge impact on the world and Elon is the man to do that.
In his tweet, he also shared a photo showing the inside of the Twitter office in San Francisco.
Sriram Krishnan’s tweet about Elon Musk’s help in revamping Twitter
Favorite
- Song: Winds of Change by Scorpions
- Music Band: U2, Scorpions
Facts/General Knowledge
- Shriram loves reading books in his free time.
- He is fond of collecting shoes and typewriters and has a large collection of both. He has several pairs of sneakers and a huge collection of Air Jordans.
Sriram Krishnan, in an Instagram post, talks about the latest addition to his typewriter collection
- Sriram Krishnan is often seen consuming alcohol on various occasions.
Sriram Krishnan with his wife at a social event
- Sriram and his wife Aarti Ramamurthy are considered the power couple of Silicon Valley.
- During an interview, when Sriram was asked what got him hooked to computers, he replied,
This is quite an interesting story. Till class 12th (sometime in 1999), I had never touched or used a computer, except a few DOS commands which we used to memorize for our exams. I wanted to be a writer or go into graphics and animation. My life changed one day in 12th class when my computer science teacher called me during lunch break. It turned out that an unknown organization (called Comp-U-Learn) was offering a free, promotional “Introduction to Computers” course. Figuring it wouldn’t do any harm (and after all it was free), I happily went to this computer institute where we learned things like creating folders, drawing pictures in Paint, etc.
Furthermore, Sriram shared an incident which had a deep impact on his life.
In one particular class, we were being taught how to copy-paste and the instructor said, ‘Please right-click the ‘My Computer’ icon on the desktop.’ Surprised, I raised my hand and curiously asked ‘Sir, where is the desktop?’ Everyone in the class, including the instructor, laughed. I was hurt. In almost cinematic fashion, I swore to myself then that no one would ever laugh at me when it came to computers. The ‘course’ was for 15 days and the institute wanted students to sign up for an additional 30-day course on C/C++. I was the only student who signed up for additional courses. I completed 12th class and the day after my TNPCEE engineering entrance exam, my dad bought me a computer. It was a P3, 850 MHz machine with an astonishing 256 MB of RAM. I was stuck the entire vacation. I spent the entire vacation writing code in VB6 and have been coding ever since…”
- During an interview, Sreeram revealed that he had sold some household stickers in the fifth grade to earn some extra pocket money.
- Sriram and Aarti Ramamurthy’s podcast show ‘The Good Time Show’, which has managed to gather around 450,000 followers in just four months, was apparently started as a fun hobby in Covid times. Talking about this in an interview, Krishnan said,
This was not planned at all. Aarti and I have been together for almost half our lives; We have been married for more than a decade. “And during the pandemic, this was kind of a pet project that we would enjoy doing.”
He added,
We had no idea that this explosion was going to happen. We started with something like we always do – after putting our two-year-old to bed, we’d host conversations because, during the pandemic, we haven’t been able to see a lot of the people we usually see.
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