Meet Chennai techie set to guide Trump on all things AI tech
Sriram Krishnan is the latest addition to the growing list of Indian Americans appointed in the Trump 2.0 administration. He will serve as senior White House policy advisor for artificial intelligence (AI).
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A graduate from SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) in Tamil Nadu, Krishnan began his career at Microsoft and went on to work with big tech giants like Facebook (now Meta), Snap and Twitter (now X).
He was handpicked by billionaire Elon Musk to help with Twitter’s transition after his takeover of the microblogging platform in 2022.
The 41-year-old software engineer joined Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as a general partner in 2021 and lead or worked on many investments at the firm in AI, consumer and crypto. He also engaged with various domestic and international stakeholders on AI policy while opening and running the firm’s UK office.
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