I currently work at slice.
Lending is the revenue generating product. We will be profitable soon only through the lending product. Last time we were profitable was in April/ June 2022. At NBFC level, we are already profitable. If you look at latest filings - it says 237cr loss - out of which close to 200cr was spent for Mumbai Indians sponsorship. 37cr loss is nothing. The year before that the loss was under 10cr. Lending market in India is under penetrated and slice has few advantages - in house credit underwriting, lower NPA.
As far as UPI and ppi goes, it's part of the long term vision of making it a payments app and users consciously choosing slice as their go to app for all things payment in the next 5 years.
Layoffs - silent layoffs were there but not at a scale. Because like I said, there is ample runway.
On the future of the business - apart from lending what all will work out only time will tell. The team is very much into building it and the employees get good hikes as well.