Sriram Vaidhya
@sriram_v2
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Working on something new in fintech. Ex-@Airbnb, ex-@Apple Evangelist, ex-quant @ThirdPointLLC and @Citadel. @CarnegieMellon and @Columbia alum.
Singapore 🇸🇬
Joined March 2009
Can confirm that I learned *a lot* from watching both Ken @Citadel and @DanielSLoeb1 @ThirdPointLLC at the start of my career. From Ken: how to go after opportunities relentlessly, and recognize the difference between taking risk vs. bad process From Dan: the value of sustained excellence, and how to do right by the people you work with, especially in difficult times
Kiddies : read this at least 2-3 times. There’s a semester (or more) of business school packed in this tweet
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RT @balajis: Here’s the thing: Indians are rising. And that is actually why anti-Indian sentiment is rising. Not because Indians are so we…
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When @Apple added third-party apps and the App Store in ~2008, even the most optimistic execs at Apple didn’t fully grasp what it would become. This @Replit @amasad is that type of innovation. Democratizing software creation will unlock millions of use cases none of us can see yet. 👏👏👏👏
Whatever you need… make an app for that. Now on your phone. For everyone. Free.
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Both are necessary to thrive and grow 👍
For the first time in crypto I'm unsure if consumer or institutional will be bigger. Both are growing incredibly fast with so much room to run. Trading memetic online culture vs upgrading global financial plumbing. Either way, seems like this crypto stuff is here to stay.
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@DanielSLoeb1 💯super interesting. But also, I do believe there’s a lot more real value to accrue at the app layer, not just infrastructure. Most consumers just use ChatGPT directly, and enterprises are so far away. Use cases are still day -1.
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RT @jonwu_: markets are transitioning from an expectation of fairness to an expectation of unfairness cabalization means the social layer…
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Great list, yourself included @nikitabier - all of these folks showcase attention to detail and *craft* in these apps that’s a rare commodity.
Making a durable social app is a once-per-decade black swan event. Builders in this space know that you cannot measure a founder’s talent by whether they created one of these outliers—but rather it’s the craftsmanship and decisions they demonstrated with each of their attempts. For those who have tried their hand at the social app lottery, it is abundantly obvious when you download an app by @pdavison, @dhof, @an21m, or @benrbn that they’re the best in the world.
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Been struggling with doing really simple things - transferring a ticket, updating my profile info, etc - and concluded that @Ticketmaster_AU @Ticketmaster is the worst product I've ever used, coupled with even worse customer support. Who's building a web3 Ticketmaster? Hurry!
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The level of UI+UX+growth craft in all of @nikitabier ‘s work is incredible.
Ladies and gentlemen, I pleased to announce my latest app: Introducing Explode · Send disappearing texts & photos inside iMessage · Only the sender needs the app: Drop them right into your chats · Screenshots are blocked too Why did we build it? Explode is a spite app. Yes, an app to spite Snapchat. Two years ago, I met with Snapchat’s CEO to discuss acquiring my previous company. I openly shared how fast we were growing. Just a week later—over the Thanksgiving holiday—Snapchat kicked our app off the SnapKit platform, abruptly halting our growth. As Ghengis Khan once said: the greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies, rob them of their wealth and see them bathed in tears. Get Explode below ⬇️
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Correct @aleximm - Western Union and Moneygram have benefited from their physical agent network for remittances to India and the Philippines for decades (and that network also took decades to build). Part of the erosion of that market share is because of fintechs using direct bank connections (@Wise) or other rails like Visa Direct (@RevolutApp), but also because the recipient is becoming more likely to be able to have access and the ability to use some form of digital banking / wallet. Also bullish on stablecoins but not there yet.
I'm excited about stablecoin adoption, but this is the wrong take. Western Union and Moneygram are primarily losing share to fintech companies. Wise, Remitly, Revolut, TapTap, LemFi, YouTrip (the list goes on...) are winning.
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On credentials alone, appointing @sriramk is a no brainer for any country. But the reaction is a stark reminder that people that look like him - and me - are always going to be “different” in post-2016 🇺🇸
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