Dynamite News Twitter: Elon Musk Includes Indian-American Sriram Krishnan In Twitter 'Inner Circle'
The team includes Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin software engineer and former Twitter executive who left the company last year. Read on for details:
San Francisco: To implement his vision for the social media platform Twitter, Elon Musk has reportedly put together a small team of his friends and confidantes and entrusted them with the job.
The team includes Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin software engineer and former Twitter executive who left the company last year, a report says.
Just after the unceremonious sacking of former CEO Parag Agrawal and other Indian-origin executives, Krishnan, who now works at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz or a16z, tweeted that he was "helping out Mr Musk temporarily",
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It is not immediately clear in what capacity Krishnan will be joining Twitter.
In a 2021 interview to a YouTube channel called Silicon Valley Girl, Krishnan said he and his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy first got to know Musk when he helped with "something Twitter-related" a few years ago and that they "built a relationship through that".
The couple also met Musk during a private tour of SpaceX's headquarters in California "several years ago", according to reports.
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Krishnan was born in Chennai to a "very traditional" middle-income household. His life changed when he convinced his father to buy him a computer - a luxury in the late 1990s, he had told the YouTube channel. (Agencies)