Along with venture capitalist David Sacks and several close business acquaintances, Elon Musk has surrounded himself with a team of advisers as he moves to make top-level changes at Twitter. One of these consultants is an Indian-American named Sriram Krishnan.
Krishnan, who used to work for Twitter earlier, is a partner at the Silicon Valley investment firm Andreesen Horowitz, also called a16z, which invested in Musk’s buyout of the social media company.
The New York Times said that while Elon Musk had traveled to New York on Sunday, October 30, Krishnan and others were keeping things afloat in Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. On October 31, Krishnan announced his temporary assistance to Elon Musk in a Twitter post that included a photo of the workspace.
According to an article published in The New York Times in July of last year, both Krishnan and his wife, Aarthi Ramamurthy, were raised in Chennai and had “typical middle-class Indian upbringings.”
Ramamurthy was reported in the story as claiming that the couple met while they were both studying software engineering in college in 2003. They had previously conversed online in a chatroom on Yahoo! created for a coding project. The couple, who are both 37 years old, have a 2-year-old daughter and reside in San Francisco’s Noe Valley, according to the story. According to a story in The NYT, they moved from Seattle to Palo Alto in 2010.
Sriram Krishnan had managerial positions at Yahoo, Facebook, and Snap
In addition to Twitter, Krishnan had managerial positions at Yahoo, Facebook, and Snap. He joined Andreesen Horowitz in 2021, a company that invested heavily in Clubhouse, a social audio app introduced in 2020. According to the couple’s NYT biography, his wife Ramamurthy has experience working for Netflix and Facebook and launching the start-ups True and Co. and Lumoid.
Relationship with Elon Musk
In February 2021, Elon Musk made an appearance on “The Good Times Show,” a Clubhouse program hosted by Krishnan and Ramamurthy. According to The NYT piece, they had previously met him during a trip to the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. The pair also included Mark Zuckerberg and the late fashion designer Virgil Abloh on their show in addition to Musk.
