Ram Shriram

Ram Shriram appears in Ron Conway on Google’s Early History and SV Angel’s Role as one of Google’s early angel investors and as a key ally to Ron Conway in closing the institutional round. Conway lists Shriram alongside David Cheriton, Jeff Bezos, and Andy Bechtolsheim among early backers who helped move Google from Stanford project toward company.

Shriram’s most important role in the episode is Venture Syndicate Orchestration. Conway says he and Shriram worked to get Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital to invest together despite the firms’ initial resistance.

Connections

• Google, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin - early company context.
• Ron Conway and SV Angel - financing collaboration.
• Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Venture Syndicate Orchestration - institutional round.