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  • Elon Musk’s Indian-origin advisor defends Twitter’s $8 charge, gives four reasons

    Elon Musk’s Indian-origin advisor defends Twitter’s $8 charge, gives four reasons

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    Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk has come under heavy criticism for introducing an $8 charge per month for blue tick verification. Despite stiff opposition, Musk has refused to reconsider the move and said that it is the only way to defeat the bots and trolls on Twitter. Now, his Indian-origin advisor Sriram Krishnan has also defended the subscription service while pointing to some flaws in the current system for verification.

    Krishnan in a series of tweets today said that several of the critiques of the paid verification are logically inconsistent. He listed four reasons to back his claim that subscription will reduce impersonation on the site. He said using a CC/mobile checkout dramatically increases friction, and everyone caught impersonating will lose their money – something which Musk also said earlier.

    The techie further said that there are lots of people who should be verified and aren’t and then there are those who should not be verified but are. He then said that the current path on any social network is opaque and easily gamed. “$8 gives a consistent path for anyone regardless of their level of notability ( which is subjective),” he added.

    Krishnan said the current model also has severe spam issues. He then asked people to check out any reply to Vitalik (@VitalikButerin) or Elon Musk (@elonmusk) and they will see lots of hacked blue check accounts. The techie said giving blue checks in $8 makes those attacks less valuable.

    “Finally, verification on social media was originally meant to solve for “this person is who they say they are”. It was NOT meant to say “we judge this person to be notable”. This brings it back to the original spirit of the design. No more DMing employees for a favor,” Krishnan said.

    Musk’s advisor further wrote that like any launch he is sure there will be room for improvement and changes but he is excited for the first change in how verification works in social media in a very long time.

    A day after Musk bought Twitter in a $44 billion deal, Krishnan announced that he was helping the Tesla CEO with the new company. He in a tweet on October 31 wrote: “Now that the word is out: I’m helping out @elonmusk with Twitter temporarily with some other great people. I ( and a16z) believe this is a hugely important company and can have a great impact on the world and Elon is the person to make it happen.”

    The Twitter CEO in a series of tweets on November 1 announced that blue tick will cost $8. 

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  • When Sriram Krishnan, the techie helping Elon Musk revamp Twitter, talked tech with AR Rahman 

    When Sriram Krishnan, the techie helping Elon Musk revamp Twitter, talked tech with AR Rahman 

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    After firing CEO Parag Agarwal and his core team, Elon Musk’s choice of yet another Indian-origin engineer to help him revamp the microblogging site, Sriram Krishnan, has an interesting connection with Academy Award winning Indian musician AR Rahman – When Krishnan and his wife talked tech with the Mozart of Madras.  

    Krishnan, who invests in crypto/web3 ventures as a General Partner at Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), co-hosts a podcast on product and technologies called Aarthi and Sriram’s Good Time Show along with San Francisco-based entrepreneur and his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy since January 2021.  

    The two, considered a Silicon Valley power couple, quizzed Rahman in an hour-long interview on August 4 mainly about his musical journey but also about how he uses technology in his music, Artificial Intelligence and on Indians building technology companies.    

    To a question on how he applies AI in music, the music maestro said: “If you take mixing, there are certain frequencies we don’t hear. AI helps identify which frequencies are disturbing, what is lacking in a mix, so we can get all that stuff. Some of the organic stuff is really cool. And sorting of samples. It does all those things which took ages to compile. There are many uses of it. Maybe one or two compositions may come out of AI, but any stuff that is cohesive needs to come from a human, so far. That’s a job which can’t be taken away hopefully.”

    Rahman spoke about a doing a course in MIT on imaging and AI when he babysitting his kids during a summer course at Berkeley. “I am a synthesiser and work with algorithm and operators and all this stuff for the past 35 years now. So, it’s just a one-step away thing, not a new thing and I have been dealing with microprocessors, synthesizers and computers and samplers,” he told Krishnan and Aarthi.

    The show, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube has also had co-founder Marc Andrreessen of Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, Oculus founder Palmer Lucky, Indian comedian Tanmay Bhat, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuck as guests.   

    In the early part of 2021. Krishnan and his wife launched a Clubhouse talk show that focused on organic conversations on start-ups, venture capitalism and cryptocurrencies. The show featured prominent guests like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Hawk, Diane von Furstenberg, Kanye West, and social media influencer MrBeast. The Good Time Show moved to YouTube from Clubhouse in 2022. 

    An alumnus of SRM Engineering College in Chennai’s Anna University, Krishnan has held jobs at Snap and Twitter before. On October 31, he tweeted:    
    “Now that the word is out: I’m helping out @elonmusk with Twitter temporarily with some other great people. I (and a16z) believe this is a hugely important company and can have great impact on the world and Elon is the person to make it happen.   

    PS. Still very much in my day job at @a16zcrypto. If you’re a crypto founder, you know how to find me,” he said in a Twitter thread on Monday.  

    Krishnan started working with Microsoft in 2007 as a program manager for Visual Studio. He later moved to Facebook where he helped building the Facebook Audience Network, a competitive platform to Google’s ad technologies. He also worked with Snapchat where he built the social media platform’s ad tech platform shortly before the company’s IPO.   

    After serving at some of the top Silicon Valley companies, Krishnan moved to Twitter where he served as senior director of product and contributed to the core user experience and launching a redesigned home page and events experience.

    Also Read: ‘Make Sriram Krishnan Twitter CEO and launch Twitcoin’: Shark Tank India judge Anupam Mittal to Elon Musk 
     

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  • ‘Make Sriram Krishnan Twitter CEO and launch Twitcoin’: Shark Tank India judge Anupam Mittal to Elon Musk 

    ‘Make Sriram Krishnan Twitter CEO and launch Twitcoin’: Shark Tank India judge Anupam Mittal to Elon Musk 

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    While praising the development, Anupam Mittal, a judge on Shark Tank India and founder of Shadi.com, offered some advice to the tech billionaire a day after venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan disclosed that he is assisting Elon Musk with Twitter.

    He tweeted, “Good call, Elon Musk, on bringing another Indian in. Now quickly make Sriram Krishnan CEO and launch a Twitcoin.”

    With “Twitcoin,” Anupam Mittal was hinting at a new cryptocurrency modelled after Bitcoin and Dogecoin. When a Twitter user asked if he would invest in “Twitcoin”, Mittal replied: “Sure. Would be fun.” 

    Elon Musk and Sriram Krishnan are both interested in cryptocurrency. While Musk favours Dogecoin and has caused its price to rise on several occasions with a tweet, Krishnan appears to prefer Ethereum.

    Sriram Krishnan, who is of Indian origin, is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm that invests in crypto and web3 start-ups. On October 31, he tweeted that he was assisting Musk with Twitter “temporarily” while continuing with his day job at a16z.

    His tweet read, “I ( and a16z) believe this is a hugely important company and can have great impact on the world and Elon is the person to make it happen.”

    Sriram Krishnan had previously worked with Meta (previously Facebook), Snap, and Microsoft.

    Also Read: Elon Musk inside Twitter: In just 4 days, Twitter has already changed in a big way 

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