Nikhil Kamath

Co-founder, Zerodha

Fintech

Co-founded India's largest stockbroker, and now interviews the people building the country.

Nikhil Kamath co-founded Zerodha, which grew into India's largest stockbroker without raising outside capital, and has since become one of the country's most visible investors and interviewers.

What they built

Beyond broking he co-founded the asset manager True Beacon and Gruhas, and built the WTF podcast into a long-form show where operators talk with unusual candour about numbers most founders never see. The WTF Fund, launched on the show, backs founders under 22 — the ones least likely to get funded.

Why it matters for India

The podcast has quietly become public infrastructure for Indian founders: multi-hour conversations that put real operating detail into the open rather than behind a fund's doors.