Shark Tank India judge to Elon Musk: 'Make Sriram Krishnan Twitter CEO and launch Twitcoin'

moneycontrol.com:

A day after venture capital investor Sriram Krishnan revealed that he's helping Elon Musk with Twitter, Shark Tank India judge and Shaadi.com founder Anupam Mittal lauded the development and shared some advice intended for the tech billionaire.

Good call @elonmusk on bringing another Indian in … not that you had a choice Now quickly make @sriramk CEO & launch a #TwitCoin https://t.co/h0MMwK7MXN pic.twitter.com/AEvs5tuyJy

Anupam Mittal was referring to "Twitcoin" as a new crypto currency inspired by the likes of Bitcoin and Dogecoin. When asked by a Twitter user if he would invest in "Twitcoin", Mittal replied: "Sure. Would be fun."

Both Elon Musk and Sriram Krishnan are cryptocurrency enthusiasts. While Musk favours Dogecoin and has on several occasions caused its price to rise with a tweet, Krishnan seems to prefer Ethereum.

Indian-born Sriram Krishnan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) which is venture capital fund that invests in crypto and web3 startups. On Monday, he tweeted that he was helping Musk "temporarily" with Twitter while continuing with his day job at a16z.

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"I ( and a16z) believe this is a hugely important company and can have great impact on the world and Elon is the person to make it happen," Krishnan had tweeted.

Now that the word is out: I’m helping out @elonmusk with Twitter temporarily with some other great people.

I ( and a16z) believe this is a hugely important company and can have great impact on the world and Elon is the person to make it happen. pic.twitter.com/weGwEp8oga

Prior to this, Sriram Krishnan had also worked with Meta (previously Facebook), Snap and Microsoft.