San Francisco: To implement his vision for the social media platform Twitter, Elon Musk has reportedly put together a small team of his friends and confidantes and entrusted them with the job.
The team includes Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin software engineer and former Twitter executive who left the company last year, a report says.
Just after the unceremonious sacking of former CEO Parag Agrawal and other Indian-origin executives, Krishnan, who now works at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz or a16z, tweeted that he was "helping out Mr Musk temporarily",
It is not immediately clear in what capacity Krishnan will be joining Twitter.
In a 2021 interview to a YouTube channel called Silicon Valley Girl, Krishnan said he and his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy first got to know Musk when he helped with "something Twitter-related" a few years ago and that they "built a relationship through that".
The couple also met Musk during a private tour of SpaceX's headquarters in California "several years ago", according to reports.
Krishnan was born in Chennai to a "very traditional" middle-income household. His life changed when he convinced his father to buy him a computer - a luxury in the late 1990s, he had told the YouTube channel. (Agencies)
