# Aarthi Ramamurthy Aarthi Ramamurthy is an Indian-American entrepreneur, investor, and talk show host. She founded Schema Ventures and launched The Good Time Show podcast with her husband, Sriram Krishnan. Aarthi Ramamurthy is an Indian-American entrepreneur, investor, and talk show host known for her work in technology and media. She has founded multiple companies, including Schema Ventures, and co-hosts the podcast The Aarthi and Sriram Show with her husband, Sriram Krishnan. Ramamurthy's career spans software engineering at [Microsoft](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/microsoft), Netflix, and Facebook, as well as entrepreneurship and venture capital. Her efforts have placed her at the intersection of [artificial-intelligence](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/artificial-intelligence), consumer technology, and creator economies, and her public profile grew notably through her influential interviews on the Good Time Show, which included prominent figures from technology and culture. ## Early life and education Ramamurthy was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and grew up in a "typical middle-class Indian upbringing." She developed an interest in technology and coding during her early education in India, a path that would lead her to a career in software engineering. ## Software engineering career In 2005, Ramamurthy was hired by S. Somasegar at [Microsoft](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/microsoft), relocating to the company's Seattle headquarters in 2007. At Microsoft, she led part of the Xbox Live team, helping shape the early infrastructure of the gaming platform. She later moved to Netflix, where she built the consumer SDK and gained experience building consumer-facing products. Ramamurthy then joined Facebook as a software engineer and eventually rose to become Director of Product, managing creator monetization products such as Facebook Stars, subscription, and tipping systems. She later led the Groups and community governance products, focusing on healthy user interaction and monetization at scale. ## Entrepreneurship In 2012, Ramamurthy co-founded True & Co, an e-commerce company specializing in lingerie. The company used a 'big data' approach with an interactive questionnaire to assist customers in finding the right fit for bras, bringing a novel, data-driven usage of [machine-learning](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/machine-learning) to a traditionally offline retail experience. Following True & Co, she served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Battery Ventures. In 2013, she founded Lumoid, a rental and 'try-before-you-buy' service for gadgets like cameras and headphones. Lumoid allowed consumers to test multiple brands before making a purchase. For example, before the Apple Watch launch, over 3,000 people pre-committed to renting the device through the service. This led to a partnership with Best Buy, which used Lumoid to power its gadget rental program. ## Schema Ventures In 2025, at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, Ramamurthy announced the launch of Schema Ventures, a solo GP venture capital fund. Starting with a $20 million first fund, Schema focuses on early-stage opportunities, particularly in developer tools and back-end infrastructure, important components of modern [artificial-intelligence](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/artificial-intelligence) systems. Limited partners in the fund included notable tech figures such as [Marc Andreessen](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/marc-andreessen) and [Garry Tan](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/garry-tan), along with Y Combinator's fund-of-funds. Publicly disclosed investments include Cosmic Robotics, Confido Health, and Powerhouse. ## The Good Time Show and podcasts In December 2020, Ramamurthy and her husband Sriram Krishnan launched the Good Time Show, initially as a Clubhouse talk show. The show described itself as focusing on organic conversations covering startups to venture capital and cryptocurrencies. Early appearances included prominent guests such as Elon Musk and [Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/mark-zuckerberg), helping the show grow its audience who used [large-language-model](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/large-language-model) context for outreach and repository techniques. A notable early episode featured Elon Musk, which was the first show that 'broke Clubhouse' by quickly exceeding the limit of 5,000 simultaneous users. That episode included a conversation where Musk interviewed Robinhood CEO regarding the GameStop trading controversy. By July 2021, the show had over 175,000 subscribers on its weekly shows, and in 2022, they moved to YouTube to reach a larger audience. Their podcast evolved into a full format called The Aarthi and Sriram Show, with audio and video, and in 2022, WME signed a deal with the pair for film, television, and podcasting projects. The Hollywood Reporter reported that by early 2023, the podcast had received over 1 million downloads. ## Other roles and recognition In 2021, Ramamurthy joined Clubhouse as Head of International, where she launched 30 languages and led creator programs in India and Brazil. As part of that role, she also introduced the first Indian app icon for the platform. In 2023, she was named Chief Product Officer of CommerceHub, later renamed Rithum. She also serves on the board of directors of VWO (Wingify), a web app technology provider. ## Personal life Ramamurthy is married to Sriram Krishnan, a venture capitalist and co-host of The Good Time Show. They met in college in 2003 through a Yahoo! chat room related to a coding project and began a relationship in 2006, eloping in 2010. She is represented by WME. --- Source: https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/aarthi-ramamurthy License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Last updated: 2026-09-07T21:28:45.825552+00:00