Sales Manager - IT Services & Digital Solutions

Vicky Kaushal's 'Chhaava' Smashes Box Office Records

- The Vicky Kaushal and Rashmika Mandanna-starrer 'Chhaava' has been a massive hit at the box office, earning ₹31 crore on its opening day and ₹219.25 crore in its first week. - The film continued its strong performance, bringing in ₹23.5 crore on its second Friday, ₹44 crore on its second Saturday, and ₹40 crore on its second Sunday, among other impressive daily earnings. - As of its 13th day, 'Chhaava' has amassed a total of ₹385 crore at the India box office and is expected to cross the ₹400 crore mark by the end of its second week. - The film also achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first Indian movie of 2025 to cross ₹500 crore in gross collections worldwide, doing so in just 12 days. - Directed by Laxman Utekar, 'Chhaava' is an adaptation of the Marathi novel by Shivaji Sawant, focusing on the life of Hindu king Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. Source: [Business News India](https://www.businesstoday.in/trending/box-office/story/chhaava-box-office-collection-day-13-rs400-crore-in-striking-distance-for-vicky-kaushals-film-here-how-much-it-has-earned-so-far-466039-2025-02-27), [The Times Of India](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/box-office/chhaava-box-office-collection-day-13-vicky-kaushal-rashmika-mandanna-starrer-eyes-on-crossing-400-crore-mark-in-india/articleshow/118589641.cms)

Is Product really for me?

Need advice from experienced Product Managers at tech product companies. This is my first job. I come from an IIT with top of the class grades (in a non-IT branch with no DSA prep) and had very strong extra-curriculars too. Having said that, I was a top candidate for consulting roles as well as product roles on campus. As fate would have it, I got into a PM role. Now I have always been fascinated by the role solely because it was always glorified as 'the Entrepreneur to be' role. (at least to me, that was the entire USP of it). It has been a few months for me in Product. During the prep, there is all the Product thinking and user empathy, maybe some ask of data analysis. But when it comes to the real job, I am barely ever able to get my hands on the first two. All the time gets used up in execution because my company is too lean to have any dedicated project managers (the pay is great though). The remaining time goes in data retrieval (not analysis) because apparently PMs and SPMs don't write queries or interact with users. They opine (what their manager opines up the ladder) I fear if it's the same everywhere else. It was like this at my previous organisation (internship, non tech) where the CEO yelled at people when on-ground numbers did not reflect his thoughts. The only difference here is that there is no yelling, just subtle corporate HR cushioned pressure. Maybe it is the 'fast moving' nature of the organisation but the best that I can describe it as is a feature shipping factory with no aim for differentiation whatsoever. All ideas are built from the incumbents' implementations. Any attempt at differentiation is shot down (by middle management) whose primary metric is the number of features against their name at the end of the appraisal cycle. While top down, this may look great: we are trying 100 things, getting 90 of them correct. But there's a possibility that we could have done 92 things, 91 correct, 1 wrong. But the 1 extra correct thing could have been something novel that the users actually wanted. The chances of this happening are not so bleak, in my opinion, because the high level (upper management) cannot possibly be in touch with the on ground reality (no matter how much they claim it in their linkedin posts). I am told that I should push engineers towards the solutions that will be the fastest (even if they callout potential tech debt) so that more features can be shipped in the least amount of time. Now, I really don't aspire to be like the people who are above me. And I don't know if it's a normal thing. I don't want to become the person who imposes their 'hunch' (just a copy of what some other app did 2 years back) onto the actual owner of the project when data is inconclusive. I don't find any intellectual stimulation in it. Am I PM-ing wrong? Am I PM-ing in the wrong Org? Or am I not meant to be a PM?

Open request: looking for smart coders & data architect/engineers

Hey folks! GV is such an amazing community of super smart people. I hope this will be of help in my professional career. In selling generally you highlight the most important things first. This is not an attempt to sell but to build a long term relationship. Hence more of a story telling approach. Please excuse if you find this uncomfortable. Let's start. A little about me: sharp guy, with intellect and amazing pedigree, 6yrs exp. Great in strategy, business operations, finance. Trying to learn tech since last 4 yrs. Personally, hard to work with in a team, not a people pleaser but committed and loyal. Girls please excuse (find it more comfortable working with guys, not trying to discriminate just my preference) Okay so what i have done. Actions speak larger than words. Over the last 4 yrs I have developed deep understanding of tech world. I believe tech can be a great enabler in transformation of every business process today. So much that i am in an IT department today. i have built understanding of the high level systems, architecture, models, algos etc. But I can code properly. I am very bad at it. So what i want to do now. There are bunch of ideas that i want to try and build. But just stuck because i don't have the full stack development skills. I have made peace with coding inability because i can be good at every skill. Sharing these ideas openly for folks to copy and build. Ideas are just 10% of the work done and probably none novel but i still want to build for various reasons. In most cases, I am not looking to make money or business to build but more to transform current processes. Eg. Real estate - why is there no portal where tenants/buyers can rate landlords/sellers and provide feedback about them. Bom and blr is such a hot market. Brokerage is an unorganised market which nobroker is trying to solve. Energy - 24hrs electricity cost is 5-6rs as per government tenders but industries buy it at 10-12/unit. Rest in comments.