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Age: 37 Years
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Profession: Product Innovation Professional
Some Lesser Known Facts About Jay Wadhwani
- Jay Wadhwani is a New York-based Certified Product Innovation professional and CEO of SETMEup, a dating app. In August 2022, he came into the limelight after he appeared on Netflix’s television reality series Indian Matchmaking.
- Soon after completing his college studies, he joined TiE Boston, a member-based organisation as its Marketing & Due Diligence Lead in August 2011. He worked with this organisation till 2013. In 2012, he joined IBM as its Product Marketing Manager and worked there until June 2014.
- In January 2014, he co-established AugoTv, a technology solution app. The same year, he established Singled Out, a dating app and XO: Get Opinions Fast, a social discovery app.
- In 2015, he co-founded the THEBARTrivia app, an app related to trivia games.
- In February 2016, he joined LinkedIn as its Products Operation manager and worked with the organisation till March 2019.
- He then joined Pandora, an audio discovery platform as its Senior Product Manager and worked in the position till July 2020. The same year, he co-founded Painted Countertops. Painted Countertops is a business that deals with works of art with epoxy.
- In August 2020, he joined Macy’s, an omnichannel retail company as its Principal Product Manager and worked with the organisation till June 2022.
- He is the co-founder and CEO of SETMEUp, a social discovery platform. In an interview, he talked about his app and said,
We started 2 years ago with the fundamental idea that social accountability was missing in online dating. By connecting people through their mutual friends, we enable others to leverage their own social circle to build relationships. We launched our web app on Nov 1, 2013, with tremendous success, registering more than 20,000 users and 60 million viewable profiles in our database. Our mobile app is expected to release on March 8, 2014.”
- Jay Wadhwani’s co-founded app was featured in many newspapers like Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, the Daily Collegian, the Washington Post, the Daily Mirror, and the Daily Mail. It was also featured on the cover of the Improper Bostonian, a Boston lifestyle magazine.
- Along with working as a product manager, he writes as a relationship correspondent for AskMen.com. In an interview, he talked about this and said,
I’ve always had a passion for relationship psychology. I’ve studied how to build attraction into meaningful relationships by sharing experiences for the last ten years. I wrote as a Relationship Correspondent for AskMen.com and have been published in front of 7 million people.”
- In 2020, Jay Wadhwani marked his digital debut with Netflix’s series Indian Matchmaking Season 1. In the show, he went on a date with Houston-based attorney Aparna Shewakramani. However, the Indian Matchmaking couple parted ways after a year of the show. In an interview, Aparna Shewakramani talked about this and said,
Jay and I are still friends. We did not ever start any relationship together…The men I went on dates with are who I really call my friends today. And for me, that’s so special because we got to walk away with these friendships, and that’s priceless.”
- He then reappeared in Indian Matchmaking Season 2. Jay Wadhwani’s storyline in season 2 follows reuniting with Houston’s attorney Aparna Shwekaramani.
- In an interview, Jay Wadhwani discussed the online dating industry and said that he considers Tinder, an online dating network, a decent dating service. He said,
I guess I would say Tinder, but for one reason in particular. They did what I always wanted to do, but quicker – they proved college students would use dating apps. The problem with Tinder, however, is that the stigma has now evolved into hookup dating. That works for some people, but for most, it doesn’t. Even the people that want to hookup don’t blatantly express that intention. As a result nobody trusts anybody else and the whole system falls apart.”
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