Hi there! My name is Arjun, I love learning new things and being creative with what I learn. I got a big smile, a huge laugh and boatloads of enthusiasm from my belief that:
Life is meant to be enjoyed - preferably together
Living life,
Arjun style
This means I like exploring the world we live in, thinking about how things work experimenting with it. It means bringing people together, sharing each other’s company and having fun goofing off. In general, it’s a lot of fun.
Let me show you...
Creative output
Expressing myself is a huge part of how I enjoy life and there are so many ways in which I love to do that.
Bringing people together
I’m so extroverted, I welcome social challenges. Hate small talk? I’ll get deep. All
strangers? I know what to say. Crippling anxiety? I am a safe place. But there’s no better
time for my extroversion than when I myself am feeling depressed.
In early November
2022, I was so sad. My dad’s passing 10 months prior was hitting me hard. One particularly
down day, I hosted six friends for a game of We Are Not Strangers. They all knew my sadness,
and came with their hearts open.
By the end of the night we had all cried, laughed
a good amount, exchanged several hugs, and shared some of the darkest parts of ourselves. I
can’t really describe how it felt afterwards, like I was uplifted, like we had healed
together.
As each friend said their goodbyes, it became apparent how rare and
beautiful this night was. I truly believe that this night was an example of the beauty of
life. I want to live every day connecting with others and bringing people together.
Book club hours
Here are two books I recommend to anyone.
The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle teaches you how to make people around you feel comfortable.
I'm not religious, but the takeaways of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle help me view the world.
I can recommend more! Let's chat all about books
More books...It takes a village
I'm incredibly blessed to have amazing people in my life.
Krisna is my cousin/big brother. He practically taught me how to think over 10 years of FaceTiming.
Sanika and I became besties over the internet. She is often the catalyst of my emotional growth.
Radhika and I are two peas in a pod. No one soaks-in life like her, but I'm a close second.
More people...Career
I’ve spent the last 5 years diving deep into consumer experience, especially obsessing over how people interact with their money. Whether I held the title of PM or not, I’ve been building products that flow with people’s daily lives, making them feel more approachable (and honestly, less painful).
That obsession led me to start Lila, a gamified money app for Gen Z and Millennials stuck in stressful impulsive spending habits. I ran over 40 deep-dive interviews to break down the problem from first-principles at the psychology layer, and built an AI-driven game experience that got people to actually check their spending on average 6.7 times per week — a 3000% boost. Turns out, making finances fun actually works.
I'm a Product Innovator
Through Lila, I developed my formula for innovation as a creative process. It’s an iterative cycle of user feedback, team-wide ideation, data-driven decision-making, MVP feature scoping and progressive delivery. This is my superpower as a PM, and I’m looking forward to bringing innovation to the rest of my career.
I’m also very adept as a people-person. At Nylas, I stepped up when our new self-serve revenue product stalled. With sales drying up, this channel was mission-critical, but progress was stuck. So I jumped in and started talking to everyone — I aligned priorities between VP Product and Eng, reenergized the team, and got the pilot launched in 3 weeks.
If you’re working on something cool in fintech or anything consumer-facing, let’s connect! I'm brought on to be a Product Innovator, accelerating team's iterative learning, collaboration, and product success.