Sriram Krishnan

General Partner, a16z
Sriram Krishnan is an investor with hands-on leadership at major platforms—leading Twitter’s core consumer and algorithmic feed teams—who co-hosts The Good Time Show and bridges investing, media and AI policy.
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Asia-Pacific, USA
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About Sriram Krishnan

Sriram Krishnan is an Indian-born venture investor at Andreessen Horowitz who brings rare hands-on experience from building products at major platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Snap, including recent work leading Twitter's core consumer teams and algorithmic feeds. He co-hosts "The Good Time Show" with his wife, giving him direct access to top founders and CEOs while operating at the intersection of investing, media, and AI policy work—a combination that sets him apart from traditional venture investors.

Sriram Krishnan's Interests

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  • A focus on the physical infrastructure and resource constraints required to scale artificial intelligence. This includes deep interest in the supply chain of data centers, energy availability, and hardware, such as his observation that electricity shortages may impede progress before chip shortages do, or his comparison of data center water usage to that of fast food chains.
  • Strong support for technologies that advance American national interests and competitiveness. He frequently highlights the importance of United States innovation outpacing geopolitical rivals like China and champions entrepreneurs building tools to secure American technological leadership, including open-weight models developed domestically.
  • Appreciation for hands-on engineering and the evolution of coding with large language models. He shares his personal experience returning to software development after two decades by leveraging AI tools to write code, specifically citing technical projects involving inference and libraries like JAX.
  • Fascination with science fiction and fantasy literature as a lens for understanding modern technology. He draws parallels between current agent-based software and concepts found in techno-thriller novels, while also expressing deep admiration for world-building fantasy authors like Brandon Sanderson.
  • Interest in the realistic trajectory of general artificial intelligence rather than hype. He critiques the utility of terms like AGI for predicting near-future developments and prefers analyzing the concrete progress of systems, such as the history of solving protein folding, over abstract timelines.

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AI, Defense, Biotech, Consumer, Web3 / Crypto
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Seed - Series B+
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$500K - $100M

Andreessen Horowitz built a 150+ person operating platform providing recruiting, marketing, and technical support to portfolio companies, and transitioned from a traditional venture fund to a Registered Investment Advisor to make aggressive crypto investments and buy illiquid assets. The firm explicitly positions itself as "a media company now" that produces podcasts and research to capture founder mindshare, while using unusually large fund sizes to lead mega-rounds backing controversial, highly ambitious visions in frontier technology.

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