The Aarthi and Sriram Show

Jan 30 2025 95 ep. 62 mins 107
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A show on optimistic conversations with people building and creating new products and technologies, hosted by veteran technologists Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan.

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Ep 95 - AI Tools, Trends & Future – a16z’s Justine & Olivia Moore Break It Down

Jan 30 2025 65 mins  
First episode of 2025! For our very first episode of the year, we invited Justine and Olivia Moore, who are Partners at Andreessen Horowitz VC firm, focused on investing in all things AI. We covered a wide range of topics from the current funding landscape in AI startups, defensibility, their favorite AI startups as well as what 2025 is going to look like for the AI landscape. Enjo

Ep 94 - 2024 Rewind: AI, Entrepreneurship & Life Lessons

Jan 28 2025 50 mins  
It’s the end of 2024 and we put together the best content of this year in one final year-end episode. We categorized the content into 3 segments - 1. Silicon Valley stories and lessons 2. AI and what’s in store for us for the future 3. Advice and guidance - for being the best version of yourself in 2024. We loved talking to the guests this year and have big plans for 2025

Ep 93 - From Reading Papers in the Gym to a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Cohere's Untold Story

Jan 28 2025 55 mins  
Aidan Gomez is the CEO and co-founder of Cohere. Aidan was an intern at Google Brain in 2017, when he helped co-author the now-famous “Attention Is All You Need” paper that conceptualized the transformer and eventually kicked off the Generative AI boom. He then left Google in 2021 to start Cohere, an AI startup valued at over $5b, that specializes in building LLMs for enterpris

Ep 92 - Mark Pincus on Zynga, Media, Tech, and Democracy

Dec 17 2024 83 mins  
We chatted with Mark Pincus - in his own words, he is the "most unmanageable founder in tech". He was the CEO of the mobile gaming platform, Zynga, and is an outspoken critic of the current state of media and journalism. In this episode, we covered it all - from his take on the US elections, the state of media, the story of Zynga, then the comeback story, him meeting Zuckerberg and

Ep 91 - Ishan Mukherjee on launching Rox, and living the American Dream

Nov 19 2024 61 mins  
Aarthi and Sriram talk to Ishan Mukherjee - a multi-time Silicon Valley based startup founder, launching his new AI startup Rox. Coming from a small town in India with working class beginnings, Ishan tells us his story of immigrating to the US, starting and exiting multiple companies, working at companies like Amazon and Apple and essentially, living the immigrant American Dream.

Ep 90 - Elon’s DOGE and the First Podcast Election

Nov 17 2024 62 mins  
The year is 2024 and it has been a few days since the remarkable US elections. Trump is now President elect. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy (both former guests of our podcast!) are leading DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency). What does it all mean for tech, for startups and for skilled immigration? What is the future of journalism and media? Is this election a one of one, or

Ep 89 - Anil Varanasi from Meter on AI and networking hardware, spotting talent early, on China and Cinema

Nov 03 2024 130 mins  
The one where our show becomes the Aarthi, Sriram and Anil show? Sriram and Aarthi are joined by Anil Varanasi, the CEO and co-founder of Meter, the company building networking hardware. In this wide-ranging conversation, Anil shares his fascinating journey from his and his brother’s unconventional upbringing, his ability to find and fund talent early, to building Meter, includin

Ep 88 - Gokul Rajaram on Founder Mode and building the next Meta and Google

Oct 03 2024 81 mins  
Sriram and Aarthi are joined by Gokul Rajaram who is a Silicon Valley icon. Gokul has done it all - founder, angel investor, executive at the best of the best technology companies such as Facebook and Google, and best of all, a good friend and guide to Aarthi and Sriram during their career inflection points. We covered everything from Paul Graham’s famous essay on Founder Mode, G

EP 87 - Rio Ferdinand on Life After Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo, Alex Ferguson, Mbappe, Bellingham

Sep 08 2024 63 mins  
Rio Ferdinand is a football legend who spent over a decade playing for Manchester United and was a cornerstone of the England national team. With six Premier League titles, two League Cups, and a UEFA Champions League trophy under his belt, Rio is no stranger to the highs and pressures of elite football. He joined Sriram and Aarthi for a deep dive into the trials and tribulations o

EP 86: This Kid Built A Fusion Reactor In His Bedroom Using AI

Sep 02 2024 30 mins  
A math undergraduate from the University of Waterloo, Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, constructed a miniature fusion reactor, known as a fusor, in his bedroom. He completed the project over several weeks, utilizing the Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI assistant from Anthropic, which he provided with relevant data. In a series of tweets, he detailed the entire process of building the reactor from start to