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Nikhil Kamath
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Co-Founder, Zerodha | True Beacon | Gruhas
Financial ServicesBengaluru, Indialinkedin.com/in/nikhil-kama…Joined August 2014

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Ep #5 is now out: youtube.com/watch?v=01qfxL We had a mixed bag of entrepreneurs for this one, with diverse perspectives highlighting what’s broken and what needs to change in education in India. We spoke about democratisation, peer-to-peer learning, online vs. offline, and more...…
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Woke and miserable or oblivious and hopeful, what's better, what would you pick? There s no right or wrong here, I don't think. The struggle might well be equal, from inside and out, perceptions aside.
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Ep #04 is now LIVE: youtube.com/watch?v=-HkBwS I’ve been using #ChatGPT a lot since it came out, and the technology is mind-blowing. After filming this podcast, though, I wonder where we’re headed next. There’s a good chance that in the wrong hands, without proper regulation, a…
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Ep #3 Trailer alert! Watch here: youtu.be/f56CbqsWwpo No one in India knows more about selling than Mr. #KishoreBiyani. He doesn't come out and speak often, but this was worth the wait. Interesting to get different perspectives from the new generation, and…
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Congratulations brother, u deserve this and so much more
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No Business Background No Pedigree education across the team No VC/PE No Advertising spending No Spamming customer @zerodhaonline is an example that a successful business can be built by not following the norm, by average folks with common sense wanting to solve a problem.
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By chance, if someone is profitable after all this, they pay the maximum income tax rate. We then wonder why many traders find it hard to be profitable😐 A robust and liquid stock market is cardinal to our economy; the small guy helping make this happen should also be helped.
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This is outside of Exchange charges, Stamp duty, Gst, Brokerage, and Sebi charges. The impact of each is as per the sequence above. Adding all this, he has to capture 30 points between Nifty volatility daily to break even (10 trds/day).
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STT hiked by 25 percent. If an intraday retail trader buys and sells 10 lots of nifty futures, he has to pay Rs 855 in STT or 1.7 points on each Nifty lot; if he trades 10 times a day, he has to capture 17 points of a nifty move every day on Stt alone.
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List 1) pe/vc 2) real estate (especially commercial) 3) equity mkts 4) commodities (not diamonds) 5) short tenure fixed income (risk-free, no mtm, simple stuff, if fd pick a bank that’s too big to fail). (1-5) (not great-ok)
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Hindsight bias has replaced real estate with pe/vc in my bad to okay invst list of 2023, Whenever a trend changes, as the interest rate scenario has, the winners of the last cycle will likely change last. The difference between 0.25 / 4.75 percent is like🐤🌞🌈/🕸️🌪️🦍
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If one were to assume this to be true and we have a far bigger #middleclass pie by 2030, we have too few large Indian independent consumer-facing brands which do 1000cr plus in sales... Everything from restaurant chains, cosmetics, Ayurveda products, jewellery, clothing, coffee.
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Congratulations, team
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Thanks for the acknowledgment @BillGates. All our giving forward initiatives are mostly thanks to the team at @RainmatterOrg. In this journey, we're at that place where we're also still building up @zerodhaonline. Kailash building tech and I managing the overall business, and…
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