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Aarthi & Sriram - Twitter, 10x Engineers, & Marriage
I had fun chatting with Aarthi and Sriram.
We discuss what it takes to be successful in technology, what Sriram would say if Elon tapped him to be the next CEO of Twitter, why more married couples don’t start businesses together, and how Aarthi hires and finds 10x engineers.
Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan are the hosts of The Good Times Show. They have had leading roles in several technology companies from Meta to Twitter to Netflix and have been founders and investors. Sriram is currently a general partner at a16z crypto and Aarthi is an angel investor.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:19) - Married Couples Co-founding Businesses
(00:09:53) - 10x Engineers
(00:16:00) - 15 Minute Meetings
(00:22:57) - a16z's Edge?
(00:26:42) - Future of Twitter
(00:30:58) - Is Big Tech Overstaffed?
(00:38:37) - Next CEO of Twitter?
(00:43:13) - Why Don't More Venture Capitalists Become Founders?
(00:47:32) - Role of Boards
(00:52:03) - Failing Upwards
(00:56:00) - Underrated CEOs
(01:02:18) - Founder Education
(01:06:27) - What TV Show Would Sriram Make?
(01:10:14) - Undervalued Founder Archetypes
Transcript
This transcript was autogenerated and thus may contain errors.
[00:00:00] Aarthi: it's refreshing to have Elon come in and say, we are gonna work really hard. We are gonna be really hardcore about how we build things.
[00:00:05] Dwarkesh: Let's say Elon and says Tomorrow, Sriram, would you be down to be the
[00:00:08] Sriram: CEO of Twitter Absolutely not. Absolutely not. But I am married to someone.
We
[00:00:12] Aarthi: used to do overnights at Microsoft. Like we'd just sleep under our desk,, until the janitor would just , poke us out of there , I really need to vacuum your cubicle. Like, get out of here.
There's such joy in , Finding those moments where you work hard and you're feeling really good about it.
[00:00:25] Sriram: You'd be amazed at how many times Aarthi and I would have a conversation where be, oh, this algorithm thing.
I remember designing it, and now we are on the other side
We want to invest in something , where we think the team and the company is going to win and if they do win, there's huge value to be unlocked.
[00:00:40] Dwarkesh: Okay. Today I have the, uh, good pleasure to have Arty and Sriram on the podcast and I'm really excited about this.
So you guys have your own show, the Arty Andre Good Time show. Um, you guys have had some of the top people in tech and entertainment on Elon Musk, mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Yang, and you guys are both former founders. Advisors, investors, uh, general partner at Anderson Horowitz, and you're an angel investor and an advisor now.
Um, so yeah, there's so much to talk about. Um, obviously there's also the, uh, recent news about your, uh, your involvement on, uh, twitter.com. Yeah, yeah. Let's get started.
[00:01:19] Married Couples Starting Businesses
[00:01:19] Dwarkesh: My first question, you guys are married, of course. People talk about getting a co-founder as finding a spouse, and I'm curious why it's not the case that given this relationship why more married people don't form tech st
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