The Aarthi and Sriram Show

Updated: 30 Jan 2025 • 111 episodes
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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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0:00 Intro 3:15 - State of AI at the beginning of 2024 12:30 - Valuations and fundraising landscape today 16:20 - Founder backgrounds for AI startups 19:15 - Are AI companies defensible? What moats do they have? 26:40 - Impact for large enterprise businesses 30 35 - Exit options and M&A 35:45 - What problems do they wi

Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:50 Gokul Rajaram on Google and what makes a great CEO 14:30 Ishan Mukherjee on the State of LLMs 22:23 Mark Pincus on how to come up with good ideas and build great products 33:12 Anil Varanasi on how to spot great talent 36:18 Rio Ferdinand on Leadership and Young Prodigies 41:33 Hudzah on using

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Chapters: 0:00 Introduction to Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere 2:12 Childhood and growing up in Canada 5:50 Getting into computers and internet 10:30 Sending cold emails 14:20 How to work with Aidan 16:40 The AI paper - "Attention is all you need" 18:45 Starting Cohere 21:10 Why choose enterprise (vs consumer) as a market 2

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Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:30 The big political divide in the US 7:50 The new media election 19:55 Pre-Zynga: Mark's entrepreneurial origins 26:10 Being in the room where it happens 30:50 How to choose the right idea to work on 34:35 Meeting Mark Zuckerberg and investing in Facebook 40:20 Founder Mode 43:15 Zynga board and

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Chapters: 0:0 Intro 1:30 The big political divide in the US 7:50 The new media election 19:55 Pre-Zynga: Mark's entrepreneurial origins 26:10 Being in the room where it happens 30:50 How to choose the right idea to work on 34:35 Meeting Mark Zuckerberg and investing in Facebook 40:20 Founder Mode 43:15 Zynga board and

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0:01Intro 3:04 Ishan's Story 4:43 Inside IIT: India's Most Competitive Universities 6:50 How Quiz Championships Shaped a Tech Founder 11:45 Moving to the US 19:38 Building Kiva - The Early Days 24:45 The Amazon Acquisition 28:30 Immigration 34:55 What is ROX 37:00 Where are AI agents lacking/ State of LLMs 41:35 Reinve

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