Sriram and Aarthi
Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan are founders, angel investors, and product leaders who host the podcast Aarthi and Sriram’s Good Time Show. They have both held leadership roles at major technology companies including Meta, Twitter, Snap, Microsoft, and Netflix. Aarthi and Sriram share their lessons from past failures, their experience building communities, and their techno-optimism, and Sriram offers his hot take on the Jobs to Be Done framework.
Career (separate track) Skills
Frameworks like JTBD can fail in complex social systems because they focus on individual tasks rather than the essential trade-offs required to balance the needs of multiple users within a network.
"I hate Jobs-to-be-Done, I think it is a terrible framework, I think no successful company has ever been built on top of JTBD and if you pick JTBD, you're probably doomed and I'll give you an example."
Growth & Retention Skills
To bootstrap a social network, recruit high-status individuals who are underserved by existing platforms, as they are the most likely to migrate to a new ecosystem and anchor the network.
"One of the key takeaways from that piece is the idea that when you have a new network, think of it as a new country, you want the high status people and high status mean they're interesting, people wa..."