Aarthi Ramamurthy

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Building for Communities @ Facebook. Previous - founded Lumoid (YC S13), built products at Netflix and Microsoft. Live in SF. Best part? Married to @sriramk.

The next big trend in consumer tech is subscriptions and paid memberships. Twitter Blue is just the beginning.

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Aarthi Ramamurthy 3 months ago

Great thread on how to build an effective subscription model

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Aarthi Ramamurthy 4 months ago

If you like math (and/or are a fan of Ed Thorp and his excellent books), you’ll enjoy this podcast interview with Tim Ferriss - well done!

I’ve learned a lot about building startups over the past few years, and have become much more opinionated on how to do it well. I spent the last 2 years at Clubhouse, where my learning was supercharged by the caliber of our team, the rate of growth, and the very nature of building in a new product c
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Aarthi Ramamurthy 6 months ago

Wow, this is incredibly well written. Startups are hard at every stage - they require clarity of thought, great conviction, courage, and people with the right skills. This is a really good set of lessons whether you’re starting a company or working at one. Well done @anuatluru!

Some potential things likely to happen in next 3-18 months for tech startup world

Likely does not mean “100% certainty” but base case seems to be in motion today
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Aarthi Ramamurthy 7 months ago

Bellwether tweetstorm from Elad is always worth a read.

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Aarthi Ramamurthy 8 months ago

I’m calling it - Top Gun Maverick is the best movie of 2022 (@sriramk)

1. Thinking about this tweet lately. Here we have someone with a "tech people vs word people" dichotomy, but unlike @balajis and all the others who do this, crypto ends up on the side of... the word people.

This is not my image of what crypto is! So what's going on? twitter.com/tszzl/status/1473156331297120256
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Aarthi Ramamurthy 1 year ago

Leave it to Vitalik to take a meme and make it an amazing tweet thread on crypto and it’s future. So much to unpack here.

People talk a lot about scarcity in crypto. Whether it’s enforcing digital scarcity through NFTs or the idea that “there’s 55m millionaires but only 21m bitcoins”. In reality, the only scarce resource in crypto is attention. Risk-seeking capital is certainly not scarce. People that joined crypto in
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Aarthi Ramamurthy 1 year ago

Fantastic piece on how attention is the only scarce resource in crypto by @cobie (really great substack overall too) -

This is a one-of-a-kind reference for anyone with a serious interest in mathematics. Edited by Timothy Gowers, a recipient of the Fields Medal, it presents nearly two hundred entries, written especially for this book by some of the world's leading mathematicians, that introduce basic mathematical to
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Aarthi Ramamurthy 1 year ago

Best book ever.

In the this episode of Origin Stories, Twitch Co-Founder Justin Kan and Sriram cover a wide variety of topics -- both fun in nature and serious at times. The conversation spans Justin's childhood and what it was like coming from an immigrant family, his college years, building startups, Justin.TV, T
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Aarthi Ramamurthy 1 year ago

This is very cool. @justinkan is (and has been for a decade now) one of the most helpful people in Silicon Valley for founders. Highly recommend this one 👇

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