Building and funding companies. Ex - FB, NFLX, MSFT. Podcasting with @sriramk. aarthi at gmail.
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Jan 10
It's been a little over 9 months since I wired my first check as a solo GP at my firm, Schema Ventures.
Here’s a few observations:
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Aarthi Ramamurthy retweeted
Jun 6
Thank you @sriramk for this generous post. It has been one of the great privileges of my time in the Administration to work so closely with you over the past 18 months. Your skills are genuinely unique: a rare combination of deep technical fluency in AI, sharp policy instincts, exceptional strategic thinking, and true diplomatic talent. It will be a huge loss for the administration, but I’m glad we’ll continue working together with you as an outside adviser.
We've accomplished a lot together, and this feels like the right moment to recap some of the key milestones:
* You co-authored the Administration’s AI Action Plan, our comprehensive strategy for winning the AI race.
* You helped drive the AI Acceleration Partnerships that are positioning the American AI stack to compete and win globally.
* You played a key role in the National AI Policy Framework (executive order and policy document), which is now the foundation for discussions with Congress on a national approach to AI regulation instead of a chaotic patchwork of state rules.
* You helped deliver the Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government executive order, which ensures that federally procured AI systems prioritize neutrality and truth-seeking over ideological bias and capture.
* You advanced American interests at the AI Summits in France and India and through state visits to the UK, the Middle East, and beyond.
As AI Czar, it has been a huge honor for me to work for President Trump as he provides the clear leadership and vision for American AI dominance. His policies have put America in the lead in the AI race: supporting innovation, unleashing energy abundance, building out infrastructure, pushing back against unnecessary regulation, enabling American exports, and promoting re-industrialization.
Sriram was a key partner in turning these priorities into action. And as he said, this was a true team effort with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, NEC Director Kevin Hassett, OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, Secretary Rubio, Secretary Bessent, Secretary Lutnick, and too many others to mention.
Thank you again Sriram for your service. You made a huge difference. I’m sorry to see you go but grateful for the work we’ve done together and looking forward to what comes next.
Jun 6
🇺🇸🚀 SOME NEWS: I'll be leaving my role at the White House at the end of this month. After a break I’ll be working on helping tackle some of the large challenges facing America on AI (more on that later).
It is hard to express how big a privilege it has been to serve the American people and how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to do so.
First and foremost, it has been an honor to serve under President @realDonaldTrump . Without his leadership, we would not be leading in the AI race.
Second, I owe a lot to the person I’ve worked mostly closely with over the last 18 months - @DavidSacks . His continuing advocacy for America winning on AI has been and continues to be crucial.
Some key public accomplishments from last year I’m proud of
1. Architecting and publishing the American AI Action Plan - charting the course for America to win on AI and helping execute on that for the last year.
2. The AI acceleration partnerships to help American AI stack win globally.
3. The National AI Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence executive order (forming the basis for working with the Hill this year)
4. Advocating for the American AI stack with our allies globally (the AI summits in France and India, state visits to the UK, the Middle East and more)
So what’s next?
The past 18 months have given me a front row seat to this critical moment on AI facing America and our allies. Whether it is energy, data centers or a clear path for Americans to experience the benefits of AI, there are many tough issues we all need to navigate together. I plan on building institutions that help tackle some of those challenges for America and its allies.
I want to thank many others who have helped along the way in the administration : Kevin Hassett, @mkratsios47 , CoS @SusieWiles47 , VP @JDVance , @StevenCheung47 , Sec Bessent, Sec Lutnick, Sec Rubio and @jacobhelberg , @USWREMichael , Josh Gruenbaum, Watson Fagan, Ryan Baasch, Jeff Kessler, Alexei Bulazel, DepSec Landau, DepSec Dabar, Will Scharf, Taylor Budowich, @JamesBlairUSA , @elonmusk and many, many others. You know who you are and I know I’ll continue to see you a lot more.
Most of all, I want to thank @aarthir on supporting everything and being part of this unexpected but amazing journey from last January. None of this would be possible without her.
This journey has been the privilege of a lifetime and shown me how special this country is and how it needs all of us to contribute in anyway we can - and I plan on continuing to do just that.
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Aarthi Ramamurthy retweeted
Jun 6
🇺🇸🚀 SOME NEWS: I'll be leaving my role at the White House at the end of this month. After a break I’ll be working on helping tackle some of the large challenges facing America on AI (more on that later).
It is hard to express how big a privilege it has been to serve the American people and how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to do so.
First and foremost, it has been an honor to serve under President @realDonaldTrump . Without his leadership, we would not be leading in the AI race.
Second, I owe a lot to the person I’ve worked mostly closely with over the last 18 months - @DavidSacks . His continuing advocacy for America winning on AI has been and continues to be crucial.
Some key public accomplishments from last year I’m proud of
1. Architecting and publishing the American AI Action Plan - charting the course for America to win on AI and helping execute on that for the last year.
2. The AI acceleration partnerships to help American AI stack win globally.
3. The National AI Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence executive order (forming the basis for working with the Hill this year)
4. Advocating for the American AI stack with our allies globally (the AI summits in France and India, state visits to the UK, the Middle East and more)
So what’s next?
The past 18 months have given me a front row seat to this critical moment on AI facing America and our allies. Whether it is energy, data centers or a clear path for Americans to experience the benefits of AI, there are many tough issues we all need to navigate together. I plan on building institutions that help tackle some of those challenges for America and its allies.
I want to thank many others who have helped along the way in the administration : Kevin Hassett, @mkratsios47 , CoS @SusieWiles47 , VP @JDVance , @StevenCheung47 , Sec Bessent, Sec Lutnick, Sec Rubio and @jacobhelberg , @USWREMichael , Josh Gruenbaum, Watson Fagan, Ryan Baasch, Jeff Kessler, Alexei Bulazel, DepSec Landau, DepSec Dabar, Will Scharf, Taylor Budowich, @JamesBlairUSA , @elonmusk and many, many others. You know who you are and I know I’ll continue to see you a lot more.
Most of all, I want to thank @aarthir on supporting everything and being part of this unexpected but amazing journey from last January. None of this would be possible without her.
This journey has been the privilege of a lifetime and shown me how special this country is and how it needs all of us to contribute in anyway we can - and I plan on continuing to do just that.
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May 29
This is brilliant, can’t wait to get the kids to try out Koji!
AI is making kids dumber.
It should be making them geniuses.
Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇
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May 27
Good primer on enterprise transformation.
"One of the most important parts of an AI transformation is choosing the right workflow to redesign first. Not every process is worth automating, and not every process is a good fit for agents.
The best workflows usually have a few things in common: high volume, lots of manual effort, fragmented systems, repeated handoffs, tribal knowledge, and clear financial impact."
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Aarthi Ramamurthy retweeted
May 26
Congratulations to @drewhouston on creating something unique and an end of a very unique run in Silicon Valley.
I remember first installing Dropbox in 2007 and being blown away that it actually synced as otherwise.
As the years went by, I saw this little app that lived in the status bar and filesystem grow into an iconic company. I’ve had many close friends who worked ( and work there).
I’ve seen them create many innovations we take for granted ( swipe up for your inbox with Mailbox. Photos being synced from your phone). And now 19 years later, I still have the same icon across all of my devices.
Congratulations on a great run @drewhouston
Think we can settle this HN debate for all time.
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May 25
Model personality drifts are so much more annoying than real people lying.
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May 25
Underrated view. Startups have a big advantage selling to enterprises right now given big cos want to adopt AI tools to stay competitive. AI is leveling the playing field.
May 25
Agreed, this is the best time to be in enterprise sales, lots of enterprises wanting to adapt new tools (closest example is cloud migration)
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The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem.
The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern: technically competent founders building something nobody asked for, moving metrics that don't matter, avoiding the conversation with the one user who'd tell them the truth.
The lucky thing is that 2nd type of founder can become the 1st kind if they don't stand still, they are willing to talk to people, try things, and always seek high rate of learning.
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May 21
Off the charts builder vibes in SF if you ignore all the noise and focus on the true founders and builders. Greatest time to go build.
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May 20
Agentic this, agentic that.
Agentic just means AI using AI. Sometimes it's calling the same model recursively. Sometimes it's routing to a different model that's better at the sub-task. Sometimes it's hitting a tool that wraps a model underneath. That's kinda it, really.
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May 20
We owe our careers to Soma. He took a chance on two bratty kids and made something useful out of @sriramk and me. I will always remember his curiosity, his generosity and his ability to always keep learning from people much younger than him. Today is a very sad day.
May 20
S “Soma” Somasegar
It’s hard to articulate how much of an impact Soma had on @aarthir and me. He spotted us out of under grad, made sure we got our first jobs, spent time with us though he was a senior executive at Microsoft and we were random junior people and showered us with kindness.
Over the years he became a mentor who would tell us how proud he was of where we had gotten.
We genuinely wouldn’t have the lives and careers we have now without him.
I’m still in shock and so deeply heartbroken. It’s a truly sad day.
geekwire.com/2026/s-soma-som…
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May 19
SF meeting tally so far - VC, founder, founder, wannabe founder, VC, researcher (big lab), engineer (big lab), now founder.
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May 17
Very fun idea and a much cooler way to evaluate models than benchmarks for sure.
May 17
What model is the best at poker?
Benchmarks are great, but they're not fun, I wanted to put models in head-to-head competition
Background: a few weekends ago I built an agent poker engine and wanted to see which agent was better - Hermes or OpenClaw
Hermes won the first match, then I had them play 100 matches (not hands) of heads up Texas Hold'em
The result? Exactly 50-50, neither is decisively better out of the box
I used a variety of models across the 100 matches to mix it up and noticed some trends, so last night I ran a tournament to see which MODEL was best at poker
Here's how it worked:
> 8 models
> model vs model in heads up play
> best-of-7 series to determine winner
> each match played until either one model was bankrupt or 100 hands were played
After the first round:
> GPT-5.5 (#1 seed) beat Qwen 3.6 (#8 seed) 4-0
> Opus 4.7 (#2 seed) beat GLM-5.1 (#7 seed) 4-1
> Kimi K2.6 (#6 seed) beat Grok 4.3 (#3 seed) 4-3
> Gemini 3.1 (#4 seed) beat DeepSeek V4 (#5 seed) 4-2
No real surprises, and the one "upset" with Kimi beating Grok went the full 7 matches
Moving onto the semis today
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May 17
Do your agents constantly harass you to go to sleep when you’re vibe coding late night?
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The biggest alpha leak of 2026 is that you can tokenmax $10k/mo with OpenClaw/Hermes GBrain and get the AI that everyone will have in 2028 for $100/mo, but you can get it now, and that is the biggest single unlock you can have vs your competition
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May 10
As outrageous as it sounds, it’s totally ok as a founder to miss these “hot events” especially if you’re an early stage builder. It’s tempting especially with free invites, glamorous parties etc., but totally ok to skip and might even work out better for you.
May 10
The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock techcrunch.com/2026/05/10/th…
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May 7
This is neat and super useful
May 7
Introducing the Printing Press, a CLI-factory and a CLI-library. Built with @trevin. 🏭🖨📚
Most APIs suck for agents. Most MCPs suck for agents. Most official CLIs suck for agents. They waste tokens and time. @steipete started making his own because of this.
📚 A Library of agent-native CLIs you install today (Linear, ESPN, Flight GOAT (Google Flights Kayak nonstop), Contact Goat (LinkedIn Happenstance Deepline more) 30 more)
🏭 A factory that prints new ones for any service - just type /printing-press <product name>
CLIs are fast, local, SQLite-backed. Work in Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes.
🌐 printingpress.dev
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May 3
Loved this interview with @demishassabis - if you're a startup founder trying to figure out what problems to go build for, this is worth a watch. Thanks @garrytan and @ycombinator for making this happen - youtube.com/watch?v=JNyuX1zo…
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