Arun Rupesh Maini[a] (born (1995-10-24)24 October 1995), better known as Mrwhosetheboss, is an English YouTuber who is best known for his technology-related content, and is the creator of one of the biggest tech-related YouTube channels.
Early life and education
Arun Rupesh Maini[6][7] was born on 24 October 1995[8][9] in Nottingham, England[10][11] and is of Indian origin.[7] His mother is from India, and moved to the UK when she was 15.[12]: 1:18 Arun's father is from Leicester, England.[12]: 1:41 As a child, he attended two schools. On weekdays, he would attend a regular English school, and, on weekends, he would attend a Hindi school, in order to learn Hindi.[13] He was educated at the fee-paying Nottingham High School,[14] and then moved on to study economics at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England.[15]
Career
Arun originally began by creating video game related content. When he was 14 years old, Arun's brother gave him his first smartphone, a ZTE Blade. Arun "fell in love with it", made a video about the phone, and that video performed "much better than I expected". This caused Arun to turn his attention to creating videos about smartphones.[15][16]
During his time at university, Arun had an eight week internship at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, an accounting firm in London. Arun didn't find this very interesting, and often finished his jobs "really quickly", so would write down ideas for YouTube videos that he would record in the evenings. When he finished this internship, he was offered an entry-level job, that would earn a salary of £35,000. However, he turned down the job and opted to focus more on his YouTube career.[15]
The Mrwhosetheboss channel initially focused on videos about smartphones. However, as the channel gained a following, Arun extended his video topic to cover other types of technology, and has since also made other opinion-related technology videos.[15] In 2015, Arun uploaded his first viral video which was a tutorial on creating a makeshift 3D hologram projector by crafting a pyramid composed of reflective material and placing it on a smartphone screen.[17][18]
In August 2024, after achieving a goal he set himself of overtaking Apple in YouTube subscribers, Arun, along with Matthew Perks, built a 2.054-metre (6 ft 8.9 in) replica of the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which, on 29 August, achieved a Guinness World Record for the largest smartphone replica.[22][23] In 2024, Mrwhosetheboss uploaded a series on his YouTube channel showcasing the features of his newly purchased tech-enabled home.[24]
^Mrwhosetheboss Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED (Video). 26 October 2022. Event occurs at 3:01. Archived from the original on 9 March 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2023 – via YouTube. So, as I was growing up, I actually went to two different schools. I went to a normal English school, but then, during the weekends, I went to Hindi school, where I just spent the entire time learning the language.
