I’m Micheal Scott from GV, Ask Me Anything

@Nole the best part is undoubtedly getting multiple messages every week where someone appreciates GV and says nice things about it. Also I'm privileged to be building a consumer social app along with our awesome team. I'll never be able to work on B2B SAAS after this, lol!

The worst part is the existential threat of GV someday shutting down if we run out of money or aren't able to ever make money. We never want to put GV in that position. We believe it does plenty of good for plenty of people and our mistakes should never be the reason for it to go away :// Just a sad thought that crosses my mind some times

@JinSakaii its actually the best team I've ever worked with - I'm biased because I was so involved in assembling this squad. Super humble and curious folks.

There's 14 of us now including the 4 people who originally started GV. 7 of us are in engineering/data. 2 design/UX. The rest 5 work on product/growth things.

Just 14 people running a 24/7 social media app is wild 😯

@Bittergourd that is so kind of you!

@shpinq I used to make $220K+/year when I was in the US at Google a couple years back. But now I make a small amount just enough to live in Bangalore and eat out a few times a week via Swiggy :)

@Aragorn_urf_Maverick tbh I loved that job and living in the US. But starting something up and returning to India just made way more sense. From the time I decided I want to quit - it took me 9-10 months to actually do it. So yes I took my sweet time. But it only became clearer as every day passed.

Besides, we already had a good idea something like GV can succeed because we had launched our first community (Corporate Chat India) on Discord and it was working quite well. So I had an idea Grapevine wouldn't completely tank when we launched it. Made it easier to take the plunge :)