By One thing Sriram Krishnan believes in is the importance of making a big entrance.
Seriously, it’s on his website under “things I believe in.” The tech exec, who began his career at Microsoft, says he was inspired by professional wrestling, where participants are known to crash the stage in all-terrain vehicles or flanked by marching bands blasting fireworks. In these grand entrances, the wrestlers tend to destroy a lot of things while the audience screams—much like Elon Musk’s first week at Twitter.
Krishnan, as it turns out, is one of Musk’s key lieutenants in the Twitter takeover, alongside investors David Sacks and Jason Calacanis and Musk’s personal lawyer, Alex Spiro. The shadow council of wealthy men has advised Musk during a tumultuous regime change that has already cut Twitter’s workforce in half; sparked feuds with the social network’s celebrity users; and run the media in circles (is Twitter Blue $8 or $20?). Quite the entrance, indeed.
Unlike some of the other “helpers” at Musk’s side, Krishnan knows the inner workings of Twitter firsthand: He worked there as a senior product director from 2017 to 2019. Now a crypto-focused investor at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Krishnan wields considerable influence over the social network’s future thanks to his moonlighting gig at his old haunt. And with Musk widely expected to hand over the Twitter CEO title at some point, Krishnan is well positioned to walk away with the prize in what may be an audition for the top job.
So much of life is just pro wrestling.
In January 2022, Krishnan and Ramamurthy were signed by talent agency WME. In the agency’s announcement of the partnership, they were dubbed a “tech power couple” whom WME planned to work with “in areas including film and television development, as well as publishing and podcasting projects,” according to Vanity Fair.
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