Sriram Krishnan: The Indian-American 'helping' Elon Musk run Twitter
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63481873Face:
More about Sriram:
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/wme-signs-sriram-krishnan-aarthi-ramamurthy-1235146180/S. Somasegar, a legacy Microsoft executive and current venture partner at Madrona Group, noted in the same profile that “a lot of people in the industry join companies like Facebook or Twitter and are happy to be there for decades… but Sriram and Aarthi are not content with the status quo. They have a restlessness that drives their curiosity and a need to ask questions.”
I have always theorized that in the tech industry, regular workers, even those that make it to the executive level, are less Westernized than VC/founder types, due to the latter selecting specifically for traits such as extrovertedness, innovativeness, and aggressiveness. Contrast the face shape of this well-known tech worker turned executive with the previous image:
More about Pichai:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/20-years-of-google-iit-kgp-remembers-sundar-the-student/story-m1A6akTDlLWQszk7uLBTIN.htmlFormer professors of Google CEO Sundar Pichai remember him as “shy, quiet , but extremely intelligent” in class
Bonus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-up_NationThe Council on Foreign Relations states in its publisher's blurb for the book that Start-up Nation addresses the question: "How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million people, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources—produces more start-up companies on a per capita basis than large, peaceful, and stable nations and regions like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and all of Europe?"[5] The Economist notes that Israel now has more high-tech start-ups and a larger venture capital industry per capita than any other country in the world. The success of Israel's high-tech sector over the past two decades has attracted recent attention from business journalists and The Economist describes Start-up Nation as the most notable of a "growing pile" of books on the subject.[6]
What do you think? Do you agree with this theory, or merely think it is a coincidence?