Aarthi Ramamurthy

Founder of Schema Ventures, an early-stage venture fund backing technical founders in enterprise software, developer infrastructure, workflow intelligence, AI/ML tooling, and industrial software. She is also a former product and engineering leader at Microsoft, Netflix, Meta, and Clubhouse, a startup founder, investor, and co-host of The Aarthi and Sriram Show with Sriram Krishnan.

Platform Dependence Is Breaking Across AI Products and Digital Media

AI and media incumbents are being forced to respond to systems changing faster than their strategies, regulations or business models. Sriram Krishnan, Aarthi Ramamurthy and Condé Nast chief executive Roger Lynch make that case across AI regulation that may miss the next generation of products, private AI investing repackaged through SPVs, and media businesses built on platform traffic that is disappearing. Lynch’s counterpoint is that media companies can still endure if they move away from click incentives and toward authority, direct audience relationships and human creative work.

TBPNMay 12, 202624 min read