The Aarthi and Sriram Show

A show on optimistic conversations with people building and creating new products and technologies, hosted by veteran technologists Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan.

The Aarthi and Sriram Show is a technology podcast hosted by Aarthi and Sriram, with 91 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Aarthi and Sriram hosts The Aarthi and Sriram Show, a technology show with 91 episodes published.

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  Episode #95

  Ep 95 - AI Tools, Trends & Future – a16z’s Justine & Olivia Moore Break It Down

  Jan 30, 20251h 5mS0

  <p>0:00 Intro<br />3:15 - State of AI at the beginning of 2024<br />12:30 - Valuations and fundraising landscape today<br />16:20 - Founder backgrounds for AI startups<br />19:15 - Are AI companies defensible? What moats do they have?<br />26:40 - Impact for large enterprise businesses<br />30 35 - Exit options and M&A<br />35:45 - What problems do they wish founders focused on? And not so much on?<br />42:35 - AI therapy - is it cringe?<br />48:55 - Stanford dropouts and starting AI companies<br />58:35 - Olivia and Justine's favorite AI Tools<br />1:04:00 - Outro </p> <p><p>Follow Sriram:</p><p>https...

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  Episode #94

  Ep 94 - 2024 Rewind: AI, Entrepreneurship & Life Lessons

  Jan 28, 202551 minS0

  <p>Chapters:</p><p>0:00 Intro<br />1:50 Gokul Rajaram on Google and what makes a great CEO<br />14:30 Ishan Mukherjee on the State of LLMs<br />22:23 Mark Pincus on how to come up with good ideas and build great products<br />33:12 Anil Varanasi on how to spot great talent<br />36:18 Rio Ferdinand on Leadership and Young Prodigies<br />41:33 Hudzah on using Claude LLM to build products quickly<br />47:29 Mike Maples on patterns for successful startups<br />56:00 Career and life advice by Aarthi and Sriram<br />1:06:55 Aravind Srinivas on Google’s Larry Page being his favourite entrepreneur<br />1:10:50 Bryan Johnson's 7 simple hacks to...

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  Episode #93

  Ep 93 - From Reading Papers in the Gym to a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Cohere's Untold Story

  Jan 28, 202556 minS0

  <p>Chapters:<br />0:00 Introduction to Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere<br />2:12 Childhood and growing up in Canada<br />5:50 Getting into computers and internet<br />10:30 Sending cold emails<br />14:20 How to work with Aidan<br />16:40 The AI paper - "Attention is all you need"<br />18:45 Starting Cohere<br />21:10 Why choose enterprise (vs consumer) as a market<br />24:45 AI strategy<br />28:20 Hallucinations in LLM models<br />30:10 Enterprise software and security implications<br />32:05 Deloitte, Accenture and the impact of generative AI<br />36:40 Will LLM scaling laws hit a plateau?<br />38:50 AGI, reasoning and inference for LLM models<br />41:30 Synthetic data - what is...

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  Episode #92

  Ep 92 - Mark Pincus on Zynga, Media, Tech, and Democracy

  Dec 17, 20241h 23mS0

  <p>Chapters:<br />0:00 Intro<br />1:30 The big political divide in the US<br />7:50 The new media election<br />19:55 Pre-Zynga: Mark's entrepreneurial origins<br />26:10 Being in the room where it happens<br />30:50 How to choose the right idea to work on<br />34:35 Meeting Mark Zuckerberg and investing in Facebook<br />40:20 Founder Mode<br />43:15 Zynga board and saving the company<br />49:30 Zynga 2.0: The Comeback<br />55:00 Zynga company culture<br />1:01:20 Building product at Zynga<br />1:08:30 How Zynga was Facebook's winning strategy<br />1:14:10 Advice to Founders<br />1:25:15 Outro</p> <p><p>Follow Sriram:</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/sriramk/</p><p>https://twitter...

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  Episode #92

  Ep 92 - Mark Pincus on the state of media and politics, the Zynga story and being the most unmanageable founder in tech

  Dec 1, 20241h 26mS0

  <p>Chapters:<br />0:0 Intro<br />1:30 The big political divide in the US<br />7:50 The new media election<br />19:55 Pre-Zynga: Mark's entrepreneurial origins<br />26:10 Being in the room where it happens<br />30:50 How to choose the right idea to work on<br />34:35 Meeting Mark Zuckerberg and investing in Facebook<br />40:20 Founder Mode<br />43:15 Zynga board and saving the company<br />49:30 Zynga 2.0: The Comeback<br />55:00 Zynga company culture<br />1:01:20 Building product at Zynga<br />1:08:30 How Zynga was Facebook's winning strategy<br />1:14:10 Advice to Founders<br />1:25:15 Outro</p> <p><p>Follow Sriram:</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/sriramk/</p><p>https://twitter...

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