Sriram Krishnan
Senior Policy Advisor on AI, White House · Host, The Good Time Show · General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. On 4 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Before serving in the White House, Krishnan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and held key product leadership positions at Microsoft, Snap, Meta, and Twitter. Alongside his wife, Aarthi Ramamurthy, he co-hosts The Good Time Show, interviewing prominent tech and cultural figures.
4shows
4appearances
55statements
6resolved
1supported
2contradicted
17%fully supported
6said about them ↓ Everything Sriram Krishnan said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Krishnan: No successful company was ever built using 'Jobs to Be Done'
“I think no successful company has ever been built on top of JDBD. And if you pick JDBD, you're probably doomed.”
Krishnan: Passing SB 1047 Would Have Ended American Open-Source AI
“You know, like until last a year and a half ago, I was in California, along with all of you, California almost passed SB, which if that had happened, it would have been the end of open source, by the way, in the United States, we would not have a Lama. We woul…”
Krishnan: Biden Administration Attempted to Demonize and Ban Open-Source AI
“The Biden administration really, really tried to scare people about open source, talk about how unsafe it was. SB. And obviously tried to kind of basically ban it in many ways.”
Krishnan: Biden AI Policy Sought Centralized Control Across Four Companies
“One, very fundamental difference I think we have with the Biden administration is the Biden team really looked at AI as something to be centralized and controlled. Everything was about how do we make sure that we regulate these three or four companies and only…”
Krishnan: Climate Lobbyists and Doomers Blocked US Nuclear Development for Decades
“Nuclear, that's another case where I think for decades and decades, the climate lobby and the doomers that kind of stop any real efforts over there.”
Krishnan: Biden Diffusion Rule Effectively Banned US GPU Exports to Allies
“Under the Biden era, there was something called the Biden diffusion rule, which basically was a 200 page document, which basically made it illegal for America to export GPUs. It was really hard for you know, if you're Jensen or if you're Lisa Su to really kind…”
Krishnan: Senior Global Officials Lacked Basic Competence in AI Policy
“A lot of people who are in very senior roles in governments in the United States back then and other parts of the world didn't know what they were talking about when it came to AI. I was convinced that they were doing the absolute wrong thing on many topics, f…”
Krishnan: America Currently Holds Only a Very Small Lead in AI
“It told us that America doesn't have a huge lead. On AI. It actually has a very, very small lead.”
Krishnan: Chinese Models DeepSeek and Qwen Are the Best Open Source
“I think to even today, I would probably say the Chinese models, Deepsea, Quan are the best open source models”
Krishnan: Measure AI Dominance by American Hardware and Model Inference Share
“And one of the measures I've been thinking about is let's say the world inferences, I don't know, maybe it's called 10 quadrillion tokens a month. We don't know what the number is, right? What share of those tokens are being inferenced on American hardware on …”
Krishnan: Global Usage of DeepSeek and Qwen Is Geopolitical Soft Power
“When somebody is using DeepSeq or Quinn, that's an expression of soft power.”
Krishnan: Undetectable Backdoors in Coding Assistants Threaten Critical Infrastructure
“Interpretability is still a nascent field and you could very easily see ways where You plug a model into a cursor or windsurf and you generate a piece of code. And then two years down the road, it turns out that code had a little if statement saying, if I'm ru…”
Krishnan: Exporting US GPUs Strongly Incentivizes Allies to Run American Models
“And one of the other things we're doing that is we get our GPUs over, we probably get them to run our models as opposed to models from, you know, another country, and we go from there.”
Krishnan: Robotics Startups Are Heavily Using Distilled DeepSeek and Qwen Models
“When I was talking to a bunch of robotic startups, you're seeing a lot of distilled DeepSeq, a lot of distilled Quen out there.”
Krishnan: Chinese AI Powering Global Devices Will Have Catastrophic Geopolitical Consequences
“There are going to be catastrophic consequences if Chinese models are running on every robot, Every camera, every car, every device around the world.”
Krishnan: Early Twitter failed by not defining its social norms and vibe
“And by the, I think one of the things that Twitter didn't get right in the original days with some of the other apps did, it never told people what kind of party it was. It was like, are we going to Michelin star restaurant where you sit down or it's a sports …”
Krishnan: The algorithmic timeline saved Twitter, despite power users hating it
“The single best product launch for the last five years at Twitter. Was the introduction of the algorithmic ranking algorithmic ranking and it saved the company and power users hated it.”
Krishnan: Twitter Needs Decentralization With Open Protocols and Pluggable Algorithms
“Twitter needs to be decentralized, one, into a protocol so people can use a different client. The second is they can use their algorithms of choice, right?”
Krishnan: AI Leadership Will Create an Accelerating Economic Flywheel Effect
“AI might be the most transformational economic cultural force of our lifetime. And I believe that if the country or the ecosystem Which winds up getting ahead is going to have these cyclic effects, right? Like you're going to, you know, you're going to power p…”
Krishnan: Twitter Algorithms Easily Injected Cultural Bias Into Mainstream News Cycles
“One of the things I saw when I was at Twitter was how easily you could inject cultural bias in your algorithms. I have so many stories about how if you pick the right kind of Twitter accounts, which then feed into the trending algorithm, which then feed into T…”
Krishnan: David Sacks Regularly Explains Deep AI Technical Concepts in White House
“Like you'd be shocked at how often I've seen David Sachs in a meeting explain how inferencing works, you know, what high bandwidth memory is, you know, how the world has shifted from a, you know, pre-training context to a post-training context.”
Krishnan: Independent Open-Source Scrutiny Detects AI Vulnerabilities Better Than Internal Teams
“If you have a model up on hugging face and somebody downloads a final gigabyte file and the thousands of students and researchers just kind of pounding away on that, I think there's a good chance they're going to find issues a lot better than a very small safe…”
Sriram Krishnan Assisted Elon Musk During the Twitter Acquisition Transition
“I was briefly helping Elon at Twitter. I was there on the let it sink in day”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 NO PRIORSLEDGER | Senior Policy Advisor on AI, White House | 1 | 22 | 0% 0/2 | full record on No Priors → |
| LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER | 1 | 14 | 0% 0/1 | full record on Lenny's Podcast → | |
| a16zLEDGER | Host, The Good Time Show | 1 | 13 | 33% 1/3 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 6 | — | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |