00M raised before his first acquisition, his hiring and interview process, vanity metrics versus authentic signals, extending lifespans, business prenups, and running a dual IPO and acquisition process.
Ramji Srinivasan is now on his second big startup, and is working to make immune measurements routine as blood pressure measurements.
On the Dealmakers Show Srinivasan talked about genomics, surviving financial crises, raising
00M raised before his first acquisition, his hiring and interview process, vanity metrics versus authentic signals, putting more time back on the clock, business prenups, and running a dual IPO and acquisition process.
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Ramji Srinivasan grew up in New York, where he promptly returned after college.
Even back in high school he began building things and experimenting with engineering.
One of his friends from school came up with the idea of a new brake light for cars that would change in intensity with pressure on the brakes. They created a prototype for that, which ended up winning third place at Intel’s science and engineering fair.
Tired of NY weather, he sought out colleges that offered something better. That took him to Stanford to study computer science. Followed by a Master’s in financial math.
Between the dot com bubble bursting, mass layoffs, and ecommerce appearing to be a fad, then 9/11, Ramji quixotically (his words) decided that he needed to personally save capitalism and New York by working on Wall Street.
In the summer of 2004, everyone else was outside enjoying the weather and having fun. While he was working 100 plus hours a week preparing forGoogle’s public offering. It was a big wake up call to what was possible, and how much others were out there changing the world in some way, while he was just pushing paper from behind a desk.
After reading Paul Graham’s book “Hackers and Painters”, he decided that if he didn’t make a leap he would just be stuck on this treadmill forever.
His eventual cofounders brought him an idea around genomics. It seemed like it could be the next big thing in the wake of the internet.
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