# The Human Cost of Convenience | Ex-VP @Yahoo! Srinija Srinivasan

An episode of [Office Drama](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1752596006), 5 Oct 2026, 1 h 32 min.

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We’ve spent decades making everything faster, easier, and more convenient, but what if we optimized away some of the things that actually make us human? Srinija Srinivasan is basically a founding mother of the internet. She was employee #5 at Yahoo, spent 15 years there as Editor-in-Chief and VP, helped shape how the early internet was organized, chaired the board of SFJAZZ, served on Stanford’s Board of Trustees, and later co-founded Loove, bringing technology and the arts together. And now, she’s building an entirely new kind of college. In this ep, we talk about: → what it was really like helping build Yahoo! in the early internet → what makes the best business partnerships actually work → why imagination, creativity, and curiosity matter even more in the age of AI → why art is so hard to make money from → the human cost of optimizing everything for efficiency → why convenience might be the wrong North Star for technology → how we can build technology that makes us more human Submit your Coworker Confessions 👇 https://bit.ly/coworker-confessions If you like what you hear please follow, rate 5 stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts ⭐️ and leave a comment! 🫶 It's free~ 𝙎𝙊𝘾𝙄𝘼𝙇𝙎 🌸 instagram → https://www.instagram.com/chloe.shih OD instagram → https://www.instagram.com/officedrama.pod tiktok → https://www.tiktok.com/@chloeshih threads → https://www.threads.net/@chloe.shih linkedin → https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-shih/ patreon → https://patreon.com/OfficeDrama ✹ business inquiries: business@colorsofchloe.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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