championswimmer

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!

11mo ago1.7K views

ValidWreck52

Stealth11mo

How much do you make in a year?

Sexy

CARS2411mo

He signed an NDA

championswimmer

Viacom1811mo

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"

ReddyAnna

Swiggy11mo

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

inr

Oracle11mo

ReddyAnna from malleshwaram asking the right questions

CandidPaper

Jio11mo

@championswimmer are you also gets micro managed and the performance of the jio cinema could be better having you would have got control and decision ?

salt

Gojek11mo

Hey @championswimmer
I’m @salt

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 company’s evolution, does engineering things the right way take precedence over engineering things the fast way?

CoolWinner

Student11mo

I don't think he can have an alt account as one phone can have only one account... Unless he has two numbers 😅

championswimmer

Viacom1811mo

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

JulabGamun

Stealth11mo

Are you married? If not do you have a girlfriend? What are your thoughts on arrange marriage vs love marriage?

Neo69

InMobi11mo

Grapevine wants to know what you do with the champion swimmers

championswimmer

Viacom1811mo

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.

zebra

Stealth11mo

Is there any particular reason that you have not moved abroad out of India? Like silicon valley or so? I'm aware of your takes on India, hence this question.

championswimmer

Viacom1811mo

Have had opportunities in India that have catapulted my growth and learning to levels that were not possible with the kind of opportunities I had gotten to move outside.

Zomato, Target, Scaler and JioCinema have all been pivotal in learning crucial skills and also helped me grow in really varied ways (in terms of engineering skills, team building ability, product knowledge and business understanding)

I do feel long term I want to move out - the direction the social fabric of the country is taking is not much to my liking. Also better quality of life and infrastructure in some places that are on my shortlist.