Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, who fired Parag Agrawal, who was the head of Twitter and was of Indian origin, has reached out to another Indian for help. Musk has reached out to Sriram Krishnan, general partner at A16Z, to discuss the immediate changes to Twitter. The company is run by Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world’s largest venture capitalist firms.
∙ Sriram said that he is helping Musk to make urgent changes at , an important company that has the power to change the world Twitter
He believes that Twitter is an important company that has the potential to change the world. Sriram informed that Musk is the one who can make it happen and hence he is helping Musk temporarily.
∙ A former Twitter official himself, Sriram is not new to Twitter
He led Twitter’s core consumer product teams from 2017-2019. Sriram has achieved 20 percent growth over the previous year during his tenure. He has launched various services on Twitter. Sriram also oversaw Twitter’s home timeline, new user experience, search, discovery and audience growth products.
∙ Raised in , India, Chennai
Sriram was the son of a father who worked in the insurance sector and a housewife mother. He met his wife Aarti Ramamurthy in 2002 on Yahoo Messenger. Both of them have been living together for almost twenty years. He moved to Seattle, USA in 2005. First job was at Microsoft. Sriram was only 21 years old at that time
. ∙ Sriram has worked on many projects related to Windows Azure (Azure) at /Facebook/Snap/Microsoft
He also published a book called Programming Windows Asher. Subsequently, it has collaborated with Facebook and Snap to implement various mobile advertising projects. Snap’s direct response ads business and Facebook’s Audience Network divisions were partnered. Facebook used to be the world’s largest ad display network. Apart from this, he has experience leading product and engineering teams at Meta and Microsoft.
∙ YouTuber
and his LinkedIn profile says he is a builder, engineer, YouTuber and venture capitalist. He is an investor in crypto and Web3 and works with Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, he has led product-engineering departments in companies like Twitter, Meta and Snap.
∙ Many Investments
MuskThe latest investment is in seed-round Lasso Labs. That is in October 2022. Sriram also has investments in Musk’s SpaceX.
∙ Succeed in new assignment?
Whether Sriram is destined for a short-term run under the self-described Chief Twit mask, or a long-term one, cannot be said at this time. There are some hints that he might be the future Twitter boss, but nothing is predictable. The world is now waiting to see if Shriram will succeed in the task of cleaning up and giving a new face to Twitter.
∙ Some changes that may come to
Twitter It has already been predicted that there may be a change in Twitter that requires Blue Tick Twitter accounts to pay. According to the report of The Verge, it is going to be said that about 20 dollars should be paid for this. Meanwhile, it remains to be seen how many Indian users will pay this amount to keep Blue Tick.
∙ The new content moderation team
Musk has highlighted as one of the main purposes of his Twitter purchase is to bring freedom of
speechThis will break the content moderation rules. However, Musk says that no such change has been made yet. Twitter will have a new content moderation council.
Many people who have been kicked out will return to Twitter and many people including
formerTrump has made it clear that he will not return to Twitter. But it remains to be seen whether he will reconsider his decision in the changed circumstances.
∙ Vine may make a comeback
In 2017, Twitter launched a platform for sharing
shortIt could have been a huge success before Tik Tok and Instagram Reels if they had paid a little attention. Wine was one of the earliest services. Musk is polling his followers on whether to bring back wine. So far, 71 percent have expressed the opinion that wine should be brought back. Musk has previously suggested that platforms like TikTok are more attention-grabbing.
∙ New Explore Feed
Barely 24 hours after
MuskNot sure if this has anything to do with Musk. However, this Explore feed is said to be attractive to new Twitter users. Let’s wait and see if the Musk-Shriram team will change Twitter.