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Kylie Robison

This former Twitter exec could be Elon Musk’s pick to be the company’s CEO

Sriram Krishnan on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, with pen in hand, talking. (Credit: Noam Galai—Getty Images for TechCrunch)

One thing Sriram Krishnan believes in is the importance of making a big entrance.

Seriously, it’s on his website under “things I believe in.” The tech exec, who began his career at Microsoft, says he was inspired by professional wrestling, where participants are known to crash the stage in all-terrain vehicles or flanked by marching bands blasting fireworks. In these grand entrances, the wrestlers tend to destroy a lot of things while the audience screams—much like Elon Musk’s first week at Twitter.

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