Arun Rupesh Maini (born ), commonly 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

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Early life and education

Arun Rupesh Maini was born on 24 October 1995 in

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, England and is of Indian origin. His mother is from India, and moved to the UK when she was 15. Arun's father is from

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, England. 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

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. He was educated at the fee-paying

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, and then moved on to study

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at the

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, England.

Career

Maini originally began by creating video game related content. When he was 14 years old, Maini'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. During his time at university, Maini had an eight-week

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at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, an

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. 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

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, that would earn a salary of £35,000. However, he turned down the job and opted to focus more on his YouTube career. The Mrwhosetheboss channel initially focused on videos about smartphones. However, as the channel gained a following, Maini extended his video topic to cover other types of technology, and has since also made other opinion-related technology videos. In 2015, Maini 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. In May 2021, Maini signed with

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. In September 2022, Maini released a video claiming that

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phones may have problems with swelling batteries after he found that his

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, and

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had all experienced the issue. Similar claims were corroborated in the video by YouTuber

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. In August 2024, after achieving a goal he set himself of overtaking

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in YouTube subscribers, Maini, along with Matthew Perks, built a replica of the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which, on 29 August, achieved a

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for the largest smartphone

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. In 2024, Maini uploaded a series on his YouTube channel showcasing the features of his newly purchased tech-enabled home.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mrwhosetheboss 1995 births Alumni of the University of Warwick English people of Indian descent English people with disabilities Living people People educated at Nottingham High School Streamy Award winners Technology YouTubers Viral videos World record holders YouTubers from Nottingham