Thread by @adityamohanty_

In this month's Product Saturday event, we had @jatin1malhotra with us. He recapped his journey and shared lessons on building products at Oracle, Facebook and Reliance Jio.

Here's a thread with the key lessons and insights from the session 👇

He joined Oracle right after college and found that Indian engineers are shipping world-class products around the globe, based out of India. Oracle trusted a young engineer with something as sensitive as a banking product, it was him.

Later, owing to his Microsoft Student Partner days in college, Google approached him to build the Google Developers Group in Mumbai. He built and took it to become one of the best GDGs in the world.

After a few years, Jatin joined Facebook to build social good products there including the blood donation drive, disaster-relief features and mapping unmapped locations in India.

All of them had convincing business cases for FB too, he shared why.

He is very optimistic about tech for social good, and convinced that big tech companies are doing a great job at it. He personally dabbles between a lot of projects in this domain.

After his stint at Facebook, he joined Reliance Jio where he looks after Product, Growth & Strategic partnerships.

Some interesting anecdotes about Jio below 👇

Jio is planning to disrupt one of the most untapped but huge markets in India, TV viewing. It’s creating a huge developer ecosystem, to build apps on top of the upcoming TV platform as well as the Jio family of apps.

To build apps for the TV platform (built on Android OS), developers will just need to re-package their existing Android apps. All of Jio’s rich content apps will be available too, enabling a substantially better & seamless TV viewing experience.

Currently, TV channels are served via satellite connection, but Jio will serve everything via internet. This would allow all channels (& apps) at one feasible price instead of a-la-carte, exactly what it did with mobile communications and disrupted it.

All of this will be powered by Jio GigaFiber which will act as a source of internet for everything in your home. It will also possibly power a bunch of IoT devices that Jio will soon launch.

To enable massive distribution and adoption right at the beginning, Jio recently acquired Den and Hathway, two of the largest cable operators in India.

Remember, Jio is still the fastest product to reach 100mn users in the world. With its massive network, Reliance can beat themselves to it with the upcoming TV platform.

Jio is also expected to disrupt several different industries in the next few years. All of this will be powered by a strong developer ecosystem, which Jatin is helping Jio build.

The last time Jio disrupted something, it put India at the top of the map. Rooting for it to shape the digital future of Indian consumers, one disruption at a time. 🇮🇳

These amazing insights were shared by @jatin1malhotra during the session.

He's super kind and humble, goes out of his way to help people around him. If you're looking to partner with Jio to build the next big thing, do reach out to him.

Thanks Jatin 🙏