Who is Sriram Krishnan the Man helping revamp Twitter?

Twitter boss Elon Musk has roped in Sriram Krishnan to help him revamp the social media platform.

The Tesla CEO acquired Twitter and subsequently fired CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal.

Now in a restructuring bid, Musk has brought in Sriram Krishnan, who is a general partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

Sriram will “temporarily” be part of the restructuring team.

He took to Twitter to announce the new development, writing:

“Now that the word is out: I’m helping out Elon Musk with Twitter temporarily with some other great people.”

He believed Twitter was a “hugely important company and can have a great impact on the world and Elon is the person to make it happen”.

In another tweet, Sriram clarified that he is “still very much in my day job” at his present company.

He added: “If you’re a crypto founder, you know how to find me!”

But who is Sriram Krishnan?

He was born in Chennai where his father worked in the insurance sector, while his mother was a housemaker.

Sriram met his wife through Yahoo messenger in 2002. Three years later, he moved to Seattle at the age of 21.

The investor, technologist, and engineer currently serves as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in early-stage consumer start-ups.

The investor has made 23 investments so far, the latest being Seed Round – Lasso Labs on October 4, 2022.

Lasso Labs raised $4.2 million through the investments.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Sriram did his BTech In Information Technology from SRM Engineering College, Anna University, from 2001 to 2005.

Sriram Krishnan started his career working with Windows Azure at Microsoft.

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, Sriram worked in senior product roles.

He also led core product teams at Twitter, including home timeline, onboarding/new user experience, search, and discovery.

Sriram has also taken charge of revenue product and monetisation efforts at Snap Inc.

He was responsible for various mobile advertisement products at Snap and Meta, including Snap’s Direct Response business and the Facebook Audience Network.

Away from work, Sriram worked as an investor and advisor with many companies including Notion, Coda, Cameo, SpaceX, CRED, Scale.ai, and Khatabook.

He is currently part of the boards of Bitski, Hopin and Polywork.

Sriram got to know Elon Musk in 2020.

He and his wife, Aarthi Ramamurthy host a podcast/Youtube channel called The Good Time Show.

In February 2020, they invited the entrepreneur to the late-night Clubhouse event.

Sriram then revealed that Musk agreed to be part of the show following a text message.

Several years prior, Sriram and his wife met Musk during a private tour of SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California.