I'm Arnav Gupta, Director of Engineering at Jio Cinema. Ask me anything!
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!
Kendall Carmden
Stealth
a year ago
How much do you make in a year?
Ever since getting a car I am inclined to reply to this with the words of famous Yo Yo Honey Singh
"Hello, uncle, namaste, chalo kaam kee baath pe aathe hain"
"ab aap ye puuchhenge ki "aap kithne paise kamaate hain?""
"bas jitna aapakee beti ek maheene mein udaati hain"
"ek hafte mein meri gaadi utana tel khaatee hai"
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Why is jiocinema so effin horrible to use on Samsung tvs ? Just fix this shit already.
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Had a quick question:
As a famous personality on X.com, do you also have an alt account on Grapevine?
But in seriousness,
Att what moment in a companyโs evolution, does engineering things the right way take precedence over engineering things the fast way?
Anise Carmden
Student
a year ago
I don't think he can have an alt account as one phone can have only one account... Unless he has two numbers ๐
A1: yes I do, ofcourse :)
A2: It obviously "depends" - but I would say it starts to matter when your products focus starts to emphasize retaining users as much as it emphasizes acquiring users. Usually as you hit PMF, and you start having few thousand users coming to your app/website every week, the retain-vs-acquire battle takes an even foothold, and doing things the right way becomes important from then
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Kendall Olive
Stealth
a year ago
Are you married? If not do you have a girlfriend? What are your thoughts on arrange marriage vs love marriage?
Not 'married', but I live with my partner for 2+ years now. Will get married one of these days because it does help legally on stuff like bank/insurance nominee, work visa / dependent visa, etc etc.
About the second part - you need to understand who you are, and what you want, and then find someone with whom you can share that. Other people (parents/friends/some algo on some app) cannot do that for you - if you're lucky you'll end up with someone whom you can live with for the rest of your life, but most likely you'll just sign up for a lot of pain and suffering and blame others for it.
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Hey Arnav, good to meet you.
Wanted to ask - how did the idea behind podcasts and being active on Twitter come about. Most devs are usually in the background.
What made you personally get into this?
Two things
Just as Arnav: I was a bit tired of the fact that all "tech" content in Indian ecosystem is mainly about how to get into tech. And not much about how to grow late stage tech careers or how to build and run tech teams (not just how to write code yourself, but how to grow a team that builds great systems). And I wanted to start such conversations in the ecosystem
as Arnav, Head of Product & Strategy, Scaler: We needed to have conversations with leaders of the tech ecosystem so that engineering leaders know more (and respect more) Scaler - and thus consider Scaler as a viable place to hire engineers from when they hire people in their teams
Both professional and personal interests came together, and the podcast started. Thanks for watching them :)
Isaiah Lee
Stealth
a year ago
As Arnav, Head of Product & Strategy at Scaler, you did fantastic work. Nowadays I listen your podcast daily and I must it is very inspiring and insightful for people like us.
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