Sriram Krishnan
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
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The future is multi-model.
it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.
sriramk.comSaid 15 Jul 2026This on korrents
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Reading online commentary about a movie before seeing it reduces the immersion of experiencing it for the first time.
There are many forces online that want to cast every movie into their pet topic and I find that deeply reduces the immersion and experience from watching a piece of cinema for the first time.
sriramk.comSaid 11 Jul 2026This on korrents
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From one piece Open source models are having a moment 3 beliefs · sriramk.com
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Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.
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Organizations will trade some access to frontier-level AI capability for greater control over how their data is used.Their words
Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control.
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The future is multi-model.Their words
it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.
11 July
From one piece The Odyssey 2 beliefs · sriramk.com
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I find what is most precious is to eliminate the friction necessary to write.
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How a person interprets a major movie is shaped by where they are in their own life at that moment.Their words
Finally, when you watch any major movie, you interpret it through where you are in your life at that moment.
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Reading online commentary about a movie before seeing it reduces the immersion of experiencing it for the first time.Their words
There are many forces online that want to cast every movie into their pet topic and I find that deeply reduces the immersion and experience from watching a piece of cinema for the first time.
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The OdysseyTheir words
this will be the movie of the year, will leave a deep impact on any viewer and will go down as one of the great epic movies made
26 March
From one piece Model capabilities and four minute mile 2 beliefs · sriramk.com
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This is not the case with many other technology driven industries where capability or advancements often tend to be longer held and a fast-follow model is harder.
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frontier model capabilities are always so clustered together as opposed to any one model having an unassailable edge.
11 March
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There are underlying lessons here on humility and the downsides of trying to make complex systems legible.
27 December 2025
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MistbornTheir words
If you’ve never read him, Mistborn is a great place to start.
19 May 2024
From one piece Group chats rule the world 3 beliefs · sriramk.com
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It is impossible to add new members forever without decreasing quality.
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Ideas that first circulate in private group chats often become mainstream public opinion.Their words
Time and time again I've seen group chat conversations act as the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion.
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Private group chats have become the primary venue for the most interesting conversations in tech.Their words
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups.
2 February 2024
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A technology company's success is determined mainly by how fast it operates and learns.Their words
The biggest determinant for success in a technology company is the speed at which it operates and learns - the "clock speed" to use a CPU analogy.
10 June 2022
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The Pigeon TunnelTheir words
The rest of the book is great, do buy it!
7 January 2020
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Beliefs
Korrents What they believe 13 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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The future is multi-model.
it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.
Open source models are having a moment Said 15 Jul 2026
Organizations will trade some access to frontier-level AI capability for greater control over how their data is used.
Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control.
Open source models are having a moment Said 15 Jul 2026
Countries will adopt open-weight models to get frontier-level AI capability inside controlled, sovereign environments.
Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.
Open source models are having a moment Said 15 Jul 2026
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Reading online commentary about a movie before seeing it reduces the immersion of experiencing it for the first time.
There are many forces online that want to cast every movie into their pet topic and I find that deeply reduces the immersion and experience from watching a piece of cinema for the first time.
The Odyssey Said 11 Jul 2026
How a person interprets a major movie is shaped by where they are in their own life at that moment.
Finally, when you watch any major movie, you interpret it through where you are in your life at that moment.
The Odyssey Said 11 Jul 2026
Eliminating the friction involved in writing is what matters most for a writer.
I find what is most precious is to eliminate the friction necessary to write.
Back to writing Said 11 Jul 2026
Frontier AI model capabilities stay tightly clustered together rather than any single model holding a decisive, unassailable lead.
frontier model capabilities are always so clustered together as opposed to any one model having an unassailable edge.
Model capabilities and four minute mile Said 26 Mar 2026
In most technology-driven industries, capability advantages are held for longer and are harder to fast-follow than is the case with AI models.
This is not the case with many other technology driven industries where capability or advancements often tend to be longer held and a fast-follow model is harder.
Model capabilities and four minute mile Said 26 Mar 2026
Trying to make complex systems fully legible carries real downsides.
There are underlying lessons here on humility and the downsides of trying to make complex systems legible.
Daniel Ellsberg, Kissinger and knowledge Said 11 Mar 2026
Private group chats have become the primary venue for the most interesting conversations in tech.
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups.
Group chats rule the world Said 19 May 2024
Ideas that first circulate in private group chats often become mainstream public opinion.
Time and time again I've seen group chat conversations act as the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion.
Group chats rule the world Said 19 May 2024
A group's quality inevitably declines as its membership grows without limit.
It is impossible to add new members forever without decreasing quality.
Group chats rule the world Said 19 May 2024
A technology company's success is determined mainly by how fast it operates and learns.
The biggest determinant for success in a technology company is the speed at which it operates and learns - the "clock speed" to use a CPU analogy.
Clock speed Said 2 Feb 2024
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The future is multi-model. 3 hold this
it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.
Open source models are having a moment Said 15 Jul 2026
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Loved The Odyssey
this will be the movie of the year, will leave a deep impact on any viewer and will go down as one of the great epic movies made
sriramk.com 11 Jul 2026
Recommends Mistborn
If you’ve never read him, Mistborn is a great place to start.
sriramk.com 27 Dec 2025
Recommends The Pigeon Tunnel
The rest of the book is great, do buy it!
sriramk.com 10 Jun 2022
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Loved Bill Gates on Movie Maker
Bill Gates on Movie Maker Bill Gates's internal memo bemoaning the terrible end to end experience of downloading Movie Maker. I love this for many, many reasons.
Loved J Allard - Killer App
J Allard - Killer App Before he became famous for the Xbox, J Allard climbed up the ranks at Microsoft with this famous memo on how to position Windows for the internet. A personal favorite.
Recommends Good PMs, Bad PMs
Ben Horowitz on "Good PMs, Bad PMs" Classic memo from Ben Horowitz on what makes a good product manager.
Recommends Thoughts on Flash
Thoughts on Flash - Steve Jobs. Not technically an internal memo but it's here because a) it's Steve Jobs and b) it's one of the best pieces of business writing I've seen.
Where they publish
Blog sriramk.com His essays and memos on technology, investing and books.
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- Open source models are having a moment 15 Jul 2026 It is clear open source models and harnesses are having a moment. There’s a few factors at work. 1/ It is now obvious that you can catch up to near-SOTA performance and do so with a clear training lineage. See Thinking…
- The Odyssey 11 Jul 2026 I was fortunate to be at the world premier of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey a few days ago. I was asked to hold reviews until the movie releases but allowed to post reactions so will try to tread that line. The toplin…
- Back to writing 11 Jul 2026 I’m going to make a commitment to writing often here, perhaps as often as once a day. There are a few contributing factors here. First, I’m out of government and can speak more freely. Though at no time did anyone ever…
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- Model capabilities and four minute mile 26 Mar 2026 I’ve been discussing with some frontier lab researcher friends as to why frontier model capabilities are always so clustered together as opposed to any one model having an unassailable edge. The best metaphor for this i…
- Daniel Ellsberg, Kissinger and knowledge 11 Mar 2026 I have told this story about once a week for about a decade. This is from Daniel Ellsberg’s book “Secrets” recounting a conversation he had with Henry Kissinger and applicable to anyone who feels they are inside an ecos…
- On Brandon Sanderson 27 Dec 2025 Every Christmas break for several years now, I’ve developed a ritual: getting lost in a world of Brandon Sanderson content. Without fail, each time I come away struck by how amazing a person Brandon seems to be. Brandon…
- Group chats rule the world 19 May 2024 Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups. Being part of the right group chat can feel like having a peek at the kitche…
- Clock speed 2 Feb 2024 The biggest determinant for success in a technology company is the speed at which it operates and learns – the “clock speed” to use a CPU analogy. The easiest external measure for this is how fast you ship product. Howe…
- John le Carré and Bernard Pivot's necktie 10 Jun 2022 When Aarthi and I started doing the show and interviewing people, I read up on all the great interviewers - past and current - to learn the art of interviewing a person. Of all the things I read, the anecdote that staye…
- How to write a cold email 7 Jan 2020 I’m a big believer in cold emails. They’ve personally opened many doors for me and been the basis of many relationships. Here are a few things I’ve learned about powerful/wealthy/interesting people. They read their own…
- First 30 days 10 Oct 2019 You’ve just gotten that fancy job you’ve always wanted.VP of Eng/CRO/CPO/Head of Partnerships/whatever. Congratulations! But what do you actually do? It often goes like this: it’s day one and you’re pumped. You have tha…
- Building something no one else can measure 23 Apr 2017 Any large system picks a metric to goal itself on. Entire books and way-too-long Medium posts have been written on the importance of said metric - it influences everything from people’s incentives to how quickly you can…
- Not fundable 16 Dec 2012 Based on actual quotes and comments from VCs and folks in the industry. Hindsight is 20/20 but if you’re an entrepreneur getting a lot of nos, you’re in good company. Dropbox Storage is a low-margin, commodity business.…
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- This is amazing. 20/10 demo difficulty. 16 Oct 2026
- Love the work on @USTechForce 13 Oct 2026
- Very impressive by @finkd @alexandr_wang and MSI 12 Oct 2026
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- interesting piece from @satyanadella 10 Oct 2026
- New VC term sheet option for founders: when the inevitable movie is made about this company we will help produce it and pick who is cast as you. There are three different movies and one documentary about various tech personalities we know here this year (?!). 9 Oct 2026
- We are in a very unique moment with agents. It was a delight to be invited by @Microsoft to their reveal today of several new agentic capabilities for Windows and to talk to @satyanadella and @JensenHuang . - MXC containers - a local sandbox for agentic execution. - Hybrid intelligence of actions that can take effect using local models or be routed to models in the cloud. - Brand new Copilot experiences around agentic usage (@jacobandreou had a very fun demo doing his taxes without any remote models being involved) - Powered on a new gen of local hardware starting with the Surface Laptop Ultr… 7 Oct 2026
- this reminds me of when oauth was developed in the early 2000s - something that needs to be built cross-industry as an open standard and have buy in. the larger question is how will large retailers and aggregators - Amazon, airlines, etc react and handle an era where they can't own the final user experience. 6 Oct 2026
- This is one of the best things I’ve posted in terms of being able to get talented people in tech connected to potential roles in the public sector. We need a lot more talent working with people like @jgebbia @USWREMichael @SamCorcos @skupor and many others. 6 Oct 2026
- one side effect of the math work solved by leading models is exposing a bunch of us to Lean for formal proofs. wasn’t familiar with how broadly adopted it had gotten in the math community last decade. has been fun to get into. 6 Oct 2026
- congratulations to @reflection_ai on the launch of Beam. It is critical for the U.S. to have leading open models to win the AI race. I know @MishaLaskin and team have been working on this for a while and very excited to see them launch this. 5 Oct 2026
- whenever I see - "claude/chatgpt has started debugging your browser" - have to give an agent full disk and/or accessibility access I'm convinced we need fundamentally better security primitives for agents to do work as us - and we are living in an awkward intermediate era. 4 Oct 2026
- we are seeing a come back of product management when it comes to the design and UX of personal agents. instinct / dot / muse / grok bot all have significant product work on tying together ux with model capabilities underneath and its access to various services. in all of these cases I rarely care about the underlying model but very much care about the big and little touches ( the muse activity notification, the little thumbs up emoji in Instinct to acknowledge a message and more). contrast this with the “upgrade to latest model” path we are otherwise on. 3 Oct 2026
- The Mike Tomlin Minecraft video is one of the best things I’ve seen online in years. Now inspiring me to build something long term in Minecraft with my kids. 2 Oct 2026
- Self recommending conversation between @DavidGeorge83 and @jaltma 1 Oct 2026
- Congratulations to @jgebbia and the @ndstudio team. 29 Sept 2026
- strong recommend every engineer listens to this from @dhh. he is getting a lot of hate but this will be seen as prophetic. 26 Sept 2026
- Fixing login seems like the next hurdle for agents like muse/instinct. find myself fighting with a lot of passwords / 2FA / passkey situations. would want an agent to take over the cookie/session store in one of my local machines and use it for communicating with online services when possible. 25 Sept 2026
- very jealous of @alexandr_wang poasting this week. generational run. 24 Sept 2026
- good piece on China and AI from @DKThomp 24 Sept 2026 derekthompson.org
- My agents should be able to do anything I can on a computer or a phone ( and I should be held accountable for their behavior). 21 Sept 2026
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