iHeartMedia, the No. 1 podcast writer globally in keeping with Podtrac, introduced final week that “The Aarthi and Sriram Present” — the hit podcast hosted by veteran technologists Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan — will be part of iHeartPodcasts.
“Our present is all about optimism and telling the tales of distinctive people who’ve reached the highest of their fields after beginning on the skin. We’re grateful to our neighborhood for supporting us and serving to us develop. We’re excited to accomplice with iHeartPodcasts on this subsequent chapter and collaborate on thrilling content material for our viewers,” mentioned Ramamurthy and Krishnan in a joint assertion.
The couple initially launched the present on Clubhouse in December 2020, and the collection shortly turned one of the vital influential packages on the app.
In 2022, Ramamurthy and Krishnan pivoted “The Aarthi and Sriram Present” to a weekly podcast collection — interviewing luminaries similar to Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Virgil Abloh, Indra Nooyi, A. R. Rahman, Rob McElhenney and Diane Von Furstenberg for a reside present they known as “The Good Time Present”.
Two years later, Ramamurthy and Krishnan transformed the reside present right into a extra conventional edited podcast, known as The Aarthi and Sriram Present, with the identical concentrate on having optimistic conversations with influential figures who’ve gone from the “exterior” to the “inside” of an business, as Ramamurthy and Krishnan describe it in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan grew up in Chennai the place they met as youngsters and went on to have management roles within the coronary heart of Silicon Valley working organizations at Meta, Twitter, Microsoft and extra. Sriram is at present an investor at a number one enterprise capital agency and Aarthi is Chief Product Officer at a big commerce firm.
“We grew up in a small city in India, and so for us to have the ability to come right here, begin these corporations, be tech execs and sort of present it, individuals see the authenticity,” Ramamurthy, who left her place as Clubhouse’s head of worldwide in 2022 to develop into the chief product officer at CommerceHub, says. “Our friends even have that very same sort of story and journey and trajectory.”
The present has amassed thousands and thousands of downloads and views throughout YouTube and social media since launch – reaching a world viewers spanning the US, India, United Kingdom and the Center East.
“Aarthi and Sriram have created a powerful present that includes insightful conversations with prime minds throughout industries,” mentioned Will Pearson, President of iHeartPodcasts.
“There was simply one thing so fantastic about that have of speaking to them for the primary time [that] you get it — you perceive why individuals gravitate to them.”
“These two have additionally constructed a extremely engaged neighborhood, and we’re thrilled to welcome ‘The Aarthi and Sriram Present’ to iHeartPodcasts — and assist the present to achieve a fair wider viewers,” he added.
Krishnan, who’s a normal accomplice at VC agency Andreessen Horowitz, says he and Ramamurthy don’t intend on leaving their full-time jobs to develop into full-time podcasters. However the two see potential in increasing their connections to audiences with reside occasions and thru a possible docuseries centered on founders with “unlikely origins,” Krishnan says.
“On the coronary heart of it,” Krishnan says, “it’s about optimism, it’s about individuals constructing issues, and hopefully individuals feeling like they’ll additionally go construct issues once they watch or take heed to it.”
“The Aarthi and Sriram Present” is now distributed by iHeartPodcasts and out there on the iHeartRadio app and all main podcast platforms.
Up to date: 05 Jun 2023, 11:25 PM IST