What is your policy on hiring people with no degree but good background in freelancing? 
  
 How big is your team and are you hiring?  
  
 What is your tech stack?

We hire folks with no degrees. We have a few of them, and they are rockstars.

Founder

Hi Shrey, thanks for doing this .. There are so many companies (Karza, hyperverfe,IDfy, signs, digio)in this space how do you differentiate?

These are companies pre-India stack, and are solving problems for a set layer.  
  
 We’re post the Data governance stack. So layer 3&4. Very different.

What is Layer 3 & 4? Can you please help us understand better.  
  
 Is there also a Layer 1 & 2?

Sales Manager

Software Engineer

Hi Shrey 
 Do your employees work remotely? Hire remote?

No mate. We do work from office for 4 days and Fridays are WFH.  
  
 Tough to do WFH all the time in this industry.

Consultant

How do you see the future of fintech evolving in India?

Product Manager

What is Finsire exactly? How does your value prop differ from other similar players in the market?

What are layers 3&4 you mentioned? Can you brief about it pls?

Why are you operating out of Chennai? Doesn't moving to BLR improve talent profile and hence outcome?

Software Developer

Too many questions, my bad.  
  
 Grapevine should do a video AMA or session so that it’s easier for me to answer all, which I’d ideally want to do.

Being a fintech how is your focus on security and any hiring plans?

Data engineer

Hey Shrey, 
 Here is my question 
 As the CEO, what do you see as the most significant challenges and opportunities in the fintech infrastructure space, and how is Finsire positioning itself to address them?

I feel the RBI is setting up India’s fintech ecosystem in a manner in which there will be no scope for abnormal profits. Seems like they don’t want any one company to have too much power of any stack/application.  
  
 Digital Lending for instance only seems to work profitably (Right now most fintechs can easily patent with NBFCs banks and lend at similar rates) if you have a low cost of capital which doesn’t seem plausible if you’re not a bank.  
  
 What are your views?

I am Shrey, CEO of Finsire - Fintech Infrastructure company from Chennai. Ask me anything!

I am Shrey, CEO of Finsire - Fintech Infrastructure company from Chennai. Ask me anything!- Grapevine

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Soonicorn founder

Shoot your questions!

Fintechfounfer AMA

Product Owner

Fincity is a Bangalore based prop tech startup, I’m looking up to know their culture and work better. Please feel free to drop your thoughts here

Company Review

Social Media Lead

Hello everyone, 

I'm Sandeep, the co-founder of Dezerv. We're an investment management platform helping affluent Indians invest better. 

Prior to Dezerv, I was a Sr. Managing Partner & Head of IIFL-One, and in all have over 15 years of experience within wealth management. 

Would be keen to answer questions about Portfolio Management Services (PMS), Mutual Funds, Wealth-tech as a space, investment management, entrepreneurship, and more. 

I'll be back at 5 pm and start answering away!

AMA: Hey everyone, I'm Sandeep, co-founder of Dezerv. Ask me anything!

Hey Sandeep, are you hiring SDE-1? I would like to work with you.

Co-Founder

Hey Everyone,

I'm Vaibhav Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO at Inc42. We are India’s #1 startup media & intelligence platform that informs, educates and empowers startup leaders & operators through our incisive reporting and industry-leading executive programs like FounderX.

I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Inc42, why we’ve built FounderX and more!

Ask Me Anything :)
I’ll be back at 5PM and answer all your questions!

I'm Vaibhav Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO of Inc42. Ask me anything!

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From CRED to PhonePe to all others, are you guys seeing your company making any money or  path to profitability?

Zerodha guys, please don’t talk 🙅‍♂️

Fintech guys, is your startup making money

Hey guys,

I am currently struggling with my startup and it’s product launch. Having talked to most of the VCs and getting ghosted, what should I do?

I have built the product and it’s ready to be launched, have a small team but I am a solo founder. 

Applied to YC and even got referral from 2-3 YC founders, still no interview. Looking for $500k.

Let me know if anyone knows anyone ❤️

Funding for my startup

What's the scene with Indian FinTech companies, like Jupiter, Razorpay, Navi, Fi, Cashfree etc...

I see some of them have started hiring again, are they a good option to join?

What's the current scene with Indian FinTech

Hi Grapevine,

I'm [Saurabh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabhjain1099/), currently building [Stable Money](https://stablemoney.in/), India’s largest platform for fixed return investments.

I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Stable Money, my thoughts on fintech and financial services, organization building, amongst other things.

Ask me anything, I'll be back at 7 PM and begin answering! :)

I'm Saurabh Jain, Co-Founder & CEO at Stable Money. Ask me anything!

Urgent company review needed

Hi folks, 

I'm Kashish, the CEO of EquityList and Founder of Cloud Capital which I run as a solo GP.
A little bit about what we do: 

EquityList is a full-stack equity management platform by AngelList India. Companies across India, US and Singapore use EquityList to manage their cap table, stock options (ESOP/SAR), shareholders, and related compliances. Managing equity for 10k+ stakeholders, 250+ companies and ~$1B in stock options.

Cloud Capital has deployed $8M+ in 55+ startups such as Airmeet, Rupifi, Orange Health, DevRev, ZET (OneCode) and others. I've also angel invested in startups such as OSlash, Atlys, Chronicle, Even Healthcare and others.

Excited to do this AMA, and look forward to answering any of your questions about ESOPs, cap table management, investing, entrepreneurship, and more!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kashisharma

Live AMA: Hey everyone, I'm Kashish, CEO of EquityList. Ask me anything!

business/finance major, graduated in 2019, been working for 3yrs and 10 months, have doubled my salary since I started my career in 2019.
Exploring options- masters in India only as abroad is expensive and doesn't make any sense in today's market. 
Have seen the fintech space closely boom as a 20y.o fresh out of college, and since then I've worked across sme financing, education financing, b2b credit card payments and now again back to education financing for a traditional nbfc. 
My roles have varied from strategy and operations, to investor relations/nbfc treasury to product management (current role)
I wanted some advice/opinion from the community whether to continue on my career path or switch to masters- take a break of 18 months study from a great school and get back in the industry.
Also, if I explore the later one then apart from the isbs and IIMs of the world are there even good 1 year mba programs in india?

MBA for someone with a  non tech BG

Welcome to Fintech India's Private Community

We run a platform that works with SME'S , MSME's (can't disclose more on what kind, but like any transaction have buyers and sellers), have active 3 lakh users. 

The amount transacted is above 150+ crore every month.

We realised that these SME'S and the sellers have a lending cycle with the seller every 7-14 days. 

Got some queries for lending (Because these businesses run of cash flow), after in-depth research, we just realised the immense potential we have if we start lending to them (both the buyers & sellers - by lending + invoice discounting).

We already have all the data points since these users have been with us for a very long time.

What does the fintech community think, should we add the fintech-lending to our business? 

(P.s.:  Initial Projections show we start making 12-15 Crore net profit, after launch at 50% utilisation)

Fintech - Lending players -Share your expertise

Project Manager

I'll go first.

1. even healthcare
2. Hike/Rush
3. Spartan Poker
4. Ultrahuman
5. Invideo

Mention the reason too if possible.
Let's discover some hidden ones. Brownie points if you mention startups that only a few have heard of.

If you know a less-known Indian startup that is doing some crazy shit (not so obvious ones), do mention.

Your turn.

What are some cool startups (Indian) you would love to work with?

As an ex-Ultrahuman employee, I can confirm that you don’t want to work there. 
  
 The culture is cut throat. I was there for an year and I got a total of 3 weekends where I didn’t touch my laptop. 
  
 Credit where its due, founders and people are amazing, it’s just that the expectations are so high that you are constantly overworked.

Marketing Associate

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Hello everyone,

Saw quite some people doing AMAs on this platform from VCs to Engineers, but nobody from Founder's Office roles.

Knowing that this role is somewhat new in the job market, not many people still know a lot about it. Shoot your questions, would answer them to the best of my capacity.

Background: Worked in the FO role for 2 FMCG brands, before joining a Fintech where I am working right now. Graduated from BIT, Mesra in 2021, but started working alongside my graduation coz of COVID.

AMA - Working in Founder's Office from past 3 years.

Founder’s Office

Hi Grapevine, 

I'm Arnav, Director of Engg at Jio Cinema. I previously exited my startup to Scaler. Some of you may know me from ScalerPod. I've also led engineering teams at Zomato & Target. 

Here to chat with you about my journey in startups, leading engineering teams, and products at scale, among other things.

Ask me your question. I'll be back at 8 pm and begin answering!

I'm Arnav Gupta, Director of Engineering at Jio Cinema. Ask me anything!

Why is jiocinema so effin horrible to use on Samsung tvs ? Just fix this shit already.

Intern

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hi,

I have been working in the Software Industry for the past 9 years. I feel like I have made a good use of my time and money and maybe some of my lessons can help you folks as well. Recently did a calculation for my NW and I am happy and proud to see my NW crossing 2CR+. I have 0 debt and do not own a house. Here is how my portfolio look like

TC: 1.3 Cr
YOE: 9

I am happy to do an AMA. Ask me anything about tech, career, love, marriage, money management, therapy, songs and movies.
#Ask Me Anything #ama #amazon #atlassian #google #startups #bengaluru #networth #money management #finance #india

Sorry if delay in responses, I'll answer all your questions eventually.

[AMA] 9 years in Software Engineering in India. NW 2.5Cr

I see a lot of similar questions and I'll try to answer them here.

>>>>>>CTC Progression<<<<

My current CTC is 1.3CR . 50% is cash, 50% is stocks.

Here is my CTC progression over the years

1st - 12L
2nd - 12L (Switched Companies)
3rd - 15L 
4th - 24L (Switched companies)
5th - 42L (Switched Companies)
6th - 48L
7th - 66L
8th - 72L
9th - 1.3Cr (Switched Companies)

As you can see I almost everytimg doubled my compensation when I switched my companies. But there are reasons to stay at a company as well. If you are learning and are able to handle different problems at scale, stay. When you feel stuck, leave and look for better opportunities. I have never switched job to get more money. I love CS. I have been coding since 15 years. What made me switch was either bad managers, uninteresting problems not visibility of learning and growth.

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