Elon Musk is making big management changes at Twitter, bringing together a team of advisers to help him run the show. Some of the people helping him are Alex Spiro, Musk’s personal lawyer who is acting as Twitter’s de facto general counsel, Andrew Musk (Musk’s relative who is associated with the brain-interface start-up Neuralink), Jehn Balajadia (COO of The Boring Company), David Sacks (political donor), Jason Calacanis (a VC and longtime friend of Musk) and Sriram Krishnan (a former Twitter product leader and current VC at Andreessen Horowitz).

Krishnan is a popular name in the Silicon Valley, besides being a partner at investment firm Andreesen Horowitz, also called a16z. He has tweeted that he is “helping out Musk with Twitter temporarily with some other great people” and he believes that “this is a hugely important company and can have great impact on the world”.

Krishnan and his wife, Aarthi Ramamurthy, were born in Chennai and according to a profile published last year in The New York Times, they had a “typical middle-class Indian upbringing”. The couple also kept the party alive at the social audio app Clubhouse as hosts of The Good Time Show. The show started in December 2020 and quickly had 175,000 subscribers. Fans included Calvin Harris and Paris Hilton, and just about anyone who wants to hear tech entrepreneurs.

The two met in 2003 when they were in college studying to become software engineers. A mutual friend added them to a Yahoo! chat room to help with a coding project, said the profile piece. Soon after, the couple met S. Somasegar, the Indian American technology executive, who was at Microsoft at the time. Impressed, Somasegar hired them both in 2005. They became romantically involved in 2006 and a year later moved Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle.

Sriram has held managerial positions at Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Snap and earlier this year, he was hired by Andreessen Horowitz, one of Clubhouse’s lead investors. As for Aarthi, she has worked at Netflix before introducing two start-ups: True and Co., a lingerie e-commerce site in 2012, and Lumoid, a service that allows people to try gadgets before buying. She joined Facebook in 2017 as a product director before leaving for Clubhouse to expand it to other countries.