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Aarthi Ramamurthy is an Indian-American entrepreneur, talk show host and Internet celebrity.[1] She founded two venture-backed companies, as well as launching the Good Time Show Clubhouse (later, YouTube) chat show with her husband, Sriram Krishnan.[2] She has featured guests including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Virgil Abloh, and Steve Ballmer.[3][4] The show has evolved to a podcasting format under the name The Aarthi and Sriram Show via a deal with iHeartMedia.[5][6] She is represented by WME.[7]
Ramamurthy was the subject of a New York Times profile with Krishnan,[1] a Variety profile,[7] and an Economic Times profile.[8]
Early life and education
Ramamurthy was born in Chennai, India to a Tamil family, and had a "typical middle-class Indian upbringing."[1]
Career
Software engineering
In 2005, Ramamurthy was hired by S. Somasegar at Microsoft, moving to the company's Seattle headquarters in 2007. There, she led part of the Xbox Live team.[9] She later worked at Netflix, where she built the consumer SDK.[9] She also worked at Facebook as a software engineer, where she served as Director of Product leading creator monetization products such as Facebook Stars, subscription and tipping products, and later led Facebook Groups and community governance products.[1][9]
Entrepreneurship
Ramamurthy co-founded True & Co, a lingerie e-commerce company in 2012. The company provides a "big data" approach to fitting bras based on an interactive questionnaire.[10]
She then served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Battery Ventures.[11]
In 2013, she founded Lumoid, a rental/try-before-you-buy service for gadgets such as camera gear and headphones.[12] The company's goal was to allow consumers to test different brands before committing to a purchase.[13] For example, prior to the Apple Watch's launch, over 3,000 people committed to rent the device through Lumoid.[14] Best Buy partnered with Lumoid to power its gear rental program.[15]
The Good Time Show and podcasts
In December 2020, Ramamurthy and her husband, Sriram Krishnan, launched the Good Time Show, which began as a Clubhouse talk show. They describe it as "focuse[d] on organic conversations on anything from startups to venture capitalism and cryptocurrencies."[16] An early appearance by Elon Musk on The Good Time Show was described as the first show that "broke Clubhouse"[17] by rapidly exceeding the limit of 5,000 simultaneous users. The desire to interact with a larger community led to a variety of later innovations to allow streaming and replaying of Clubhouse chats. On that episode, Elon Musk grilled Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev regarding the GameStop trading controversy.[18] As of July, 2021, the show had over 175,000 subscribers.[1] During Krishnan's interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg described augmented and virtual reality as the future of work, alluding to the then-unannounced Meta concept. Additional guests have included Tony Hawk, Diane von Furstenberg, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja,[2] Kanye West,[19] and MrBeast.[20]
In 2022, WME signed Ramamurthy and Krishnan for film and TV development projects, as well as other publishing and podcasting ventures.[7]
In 2022, the Good Time Show moved to YouTube.[21] Ramamurthy's departure was cited as a major blow to Clubhouse.[22] It then evolved to a podcasting format under the name The Aarthi and Sriram Show, with both audio and video content.[23] The Hollywood Reporter reported that the podcast had received more than 1 million downloads by early 2023.[23]
Other roles
In 2021, Ramamurthy joined Clubhouse as Head of International,[24] launching 30 languages, creator programs in India and Brazil, and the first Indian app icon.[25]
In 2023, Ramamurthy was named the Chief Product Officer of CommerceHub.[26]
Investing and other activities
Ramamurthy has made early-stage investments in technology and growth companies.[27] She has spoken on panels about diversity in technology and product leadership.[28]
Personal life
Ramamurthy is married to Sriram Krishnan, a venture capitalist and co-host of The Good Time Show. They met in college in 2003 through a Yahoo! chat room related to a coding project and began dating in 2006. They live in San Francisco.[29] She is a photographer.[30]
References
External links
- The Aarthi and Sriram Show (formerly The Good Time Show)
- Official website of The Aarthi and Sriram Show
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