Aarthi Ramamurthy
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VWO / Wingify (Board of Directors)
Former Product Director at Facebook
Co-founder of True & Co.
Chief Product Officer of Rithum
Co-host of The Aarthi and Sriram ShowAarthi Ramamurthy | |
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| Born | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Occupation | Venture capitalist • entrepreneur • software engineer • podcaster • clubhouse host |
| Employer(s) | Schema Ventures (Founder) VWO / Wingify (Board of Directors) |
| Title | Founder of Schema Ventures
Former Product Director at Facebook Co-founder of True & Co. Chief Product Officer of Rithum Co-host of The Aarthi and Sriram Show |
| Spouse | |
| Website | schemavc |
Aarthi Ramamurthy is the founder of Schema Ventures, a venture capital firm. She is also known as an Indian-American entrepreneur, talk show host, and internet celebrity.[1] She founded two venture-backed companies, as well as launching the Good Time Show Clubhouse (later, YouTube) chat show with her husband, Sriram Krishnan.[2] She has featured guests including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Virgil Abloh, and Steve Ballmer.[3][4] The show has evolved to a podcasting format under the name The Aarthi and Sriram Show via a deal with iHeartMedia.[5][6] She is represented by WME.[7] She serves on the board of Wingify, parent company of the web app technology provider VWO.[8]
Ramamurthy was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and had a "typical middle-class Indian upbringing."[1]
Career
Software engineering
In 2005, Ramamurthy was hired by S. Somasegar at Microsoft, moving to the company's Seattle headquarters in 2007. There, she led part of the Xbox Live team.[9] She later worked at Netflix, where she built the consumer SDK.[9] She also worked at Facebook as a software engineer, where she served as Director of Product leading creator monetization products such as Facebook Stars, subscription and tipping products, and later led Facebook Groups and community governance products.[1][9]
Entrepreneurship
Ramamurthy co-founded True & Co, a lingerie e-commerce company in 2012. The company provides a "big data" approach to fitting bras based on an interactive questionnaire.[10]
She then served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Battery Ventures.[11]
In 2013, she founded Lumoid, a rental/try-before-you-buy service for gadgets such as camera gear and headphones.[12] The company's goal was to allow consumers to test different brands before committing to a purchase.[13] For example, prior to the Apple Watch's launch, over 3,000 people committed to rent the device through Lumoid.[14] Best Buy partnered with Lumoid to power its gear rental program.[15]
Schema Ventures
Ramamurthy announced the launch of Schema Ventures at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit 2025.[16] She described it as a solo GP venture capital fund, starting with a $20mm first fund focused on early-stage opportunities,[17] particularly on developer tools and back-end infrastructure. Limited partners included Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and Y Combinator's fund-of-funds, while publicly disclosed investments included Cosmic Robotics, Confido Health, and Powerhouse.[16]
The Good Time Show and podcasts
In December 2020, Ramamurthy and her husband, Sriram Krishnan, launched the Good Time Show, which began as a Clubhouse talk show.[18] They describe it as "focuse[d] on organic conversations on anything from startups to venture capitalism and cryptocurrencies."[19] An early appearance by Elon Musk on The Good Time Show was described as the first show that "broke Clubhouse"[20] by rapidly exceeding the limit of 5,000 simultaneous users. The desire to interact with a larger community led to a variety of later innovations to allow streaming and replaying of Clubhouse chats. On that episode, Elon Musk grilled Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev regarding the GameStop trading controversy.[21] As of July, 2021, the show had over 175,000 subscribers.[1] During Krishnan's interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg described augmented and virtual reality as the future of work, alluding to the then-unannounced Meta concept. Additional guests have included Tony Hawk, Diane von Furstenberg, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja,[2] Kanye West,[22] and MrBeast.[23]
In 2022, WME signed Ramamurthy and Krishnan for film and TV development projects, as well as other publishing and podcasting ventures.[7]
In 2022, the Good Time Show moved to YouTube.[24] Ramamurthy's departure was cited as a major blow to Clubhouse.[25] It then evolved to a podcasting format under the name The Aarthi and Sriram Show, with both audio and video content.[26] The Hollywood Reporter reported that the podcast had received more than 1 million downloads by early 2023.[26]
Other roles
In 2021, Ramamurthy joined Clubhouse as Head of International,[27] launching 30 languages, creator programs in India and Brazil, and the first Indian app icon.[28]
In 2023, Ramamurthy was named the Chief Product Officer of CommerceHub, later renamed Rithum.[29]
She serves on the Board of Directors of VWO/Wingify.[8]
Investing and other activities
Ramamurthy has made early-stage investments in technology and growth companies.[30] She has spoken on panels about diversity in technology and product leadership.[31]