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Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

28 Oct, 11 tweets, 4 min read

@mohaknahta

🚨🌎✈️ Investing in Atlys/@mohaknahta : Thrilled to announce @a16z is investing in Atlys.

Atlys makes international travel paperwork+processes seamless. And something you should definitely use for your next international trip.

Post: a16z.com/2021/10/28/inv…

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@aarthir

COVID has reminded us all how important travel is. For @aarthir and me, it has has meant not being able to visit family in India. For others, it meant postponed vacations, or missing that dream trip. Or real stress over not being able to make an urgent trip in time of need.

As we slowly figure out a return to safe travel, paperwork+processes around intl. travel has been confusing. Rapidly changing vaccine/testing requirements, paperwork, and several disjointed government systems–all leading to long hours of stress and airport horror stories.

This has added to an already complex international travel paperwork/visa system that frustrated travelers have been forced to navigate for decades (especially those on passports not from the US).

Atlys fixes this by simplifying the travel paperwork process. By building a digital layer over multiple complex archaic systems, it can help you process paperwork+payments with a few simple questions.

@mohaknahta

We had long known @mohaknahta by reputation as a star product builder but when we met him, it was clear he had personally lived through the "idea maze" and first hand knew the issues. You can tell this was built by someone who had felt this pain.

As an immigrant, Atlys deeply resonates with me. Years figuring out arcane visa processes, waiting in lines at consulates, navigating poorly designed websites. It’s the app I wish I had a decade ago.

Atlys’ mission of enabling everyone to travel freely is one we’d all love to see come to life. I’m thrilled to announce a16z is leading Atlys’s seed round of funding. Traveling anywhere soon? Check out atlys.com

Our post on the investment -> a16z.com/2021/10/28/inv…

@paulgraham

PPS I can't think of a better example of a startup going after a "schlep blindness" space as @paulgraham called it. Making multiple legacy+complex systems look simple.
paulgraham.com/schlep.html

PPPS: Check this out for yourself:

US citizen traveling to Greece? -> atlys.com/covid/greece?f…

Indian citizen traveling to France? -> atlys.com/covid/france?f…

You can pick any combination from atlys.com and then go through the process.

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@sriramk

21 Oct

@airgarageinc

👋🚨 Investing in @airgarageinc - thrilled to announce that @a16z is investing in AirGarage, a full-stack parking lot operator and marketplace that is changing parking across the country. I'll be joining the board.

Post: a16z.com/2021/10/21/air…

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AirGarage is a “full-stack parking operator”—a marketplace with parking lot owners on one side and drivers on the other.

Since launching in 2019, AirGarage has quickly grown to manage over 150 parking lots/garages across over 30 states, growing 12x (!) just last year alone.

For owners: tools to automate the operation of parking lots/garages, including payments, camera-based enforcement and analytics for occupancy and revenue trends over time.

For consumers: the AirGarage app helps you find the best spot to park.

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Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

@sriramk

20 Oct

Seeing a lot of interesting consumer startups where the community being built *is* the company.

This + the toolset/stack being used to build these are super fascinating.

Common stack

- member directory
- multiple spaces to congregate ( often Discord or Slack but multiple other options)
- lots of member-member interaction tools
- Content programming
- IRL events/schedules
- multiple tiers for you to “level up” to.

Multiple amazing examples in web3 of course often wrapped by a DAO ( FWB being a great example).

Here though, referring so many in non-crypto companies ( and of course not a new phenomenon!).

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Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

@sriramk

26 Sep

On processing information - a few habits I've now adopted on processing any new topic.

a) Always go to the source: going to the root of anything you read (the actual transcript, the actual paper, the actual video, etc) will teach you a lot about any topic and is essential.

b) Barbell approach: when approaching any topic, go for a barbell approach.

Read first hand/raw sources and then studies done years after the fact. Anything in the middle is suspect.

c) Contemporary sources for history: When reading history, reading contemporary accounts (newspapers of the time, commentators of the era) are often key and will give you a 360 view that you may miss if you only read modern historians.

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Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

@sriramk

6 Sep

🧵 Someone asked on Discord how to "learn" a new space. I'm not an expert but here's my algorithm mid-2021. This works for me, may or may not work for you.

Tried to use the example of NFTs below that I tried to learn this year but can work for any space.

What I try to do is to build a "map" of the space - the lowest level fundamentals, high level analysis, key people, major companies, communities, movements.

@WillPapper

1. Learn/do the basics:

For anything technical, I like to go deep on the fundamentals first. Write/deploy code/build something. Helps build scaffolding on top.

Here, learning ERC 721/reading popular contracts/learning through tutorials like from @WillPapper has been great.

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Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

@sriramk

13 Jun

👉🧵 How to build a personal brand in tech - available to anyone with a laptop with an internet connection.

↳ 1. Real names optional. Some of the most interesting people online are known only by pseudonyms and we don't know who they are and where they're from. Feel free to do this under a pseudonym.

↳ 2. Follow your curiosity and figure out which piece of tech/community you want to build mindshare in. There are *so many* exciting things in tech happening in 2021 so you have a lot to choose from.

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Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

@sriramk

6 May

@bitski

👋Announcement:

A16Z is leading @bitski's $19M Series A. Bitski is a "Shopify for NFTs" that lets creators, brands, and platforms easily create, sell, and purchase NFTs.

I'm super thrilled to be working with @donnie+ @jatescher!

Post -> a16z.com/2021/05/06/inv…

🧵 below:

NFTs represent one of the most exciting evolutions of the internet and a key building block of the metaverse.

Over the last several months, millions of consumers have been introduced to NFTs and the entirely new ownership structures they unlock for digital goods.

Though the ecosystem has come a long way in a very short time, the list of things for brands to figure out and build is long: building custom storefronts, payment mechanisms, helping customers set up wallets/crypto transfers, handling traffic spikes,...

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