Nithin Kamath, co-founder and CEO, Zerodha; Image: Selvaprakash Lakshmanan for Forbes India
Nithin Kamath, a new-age entrepreneur, built a bootstrapped unicorn, Zerodha, which disrupted and redefined the business of stock broking in India. Interestingly, unlike startup peers, Zerodha has no deep-pocketed investors or big marketing spends. But it is one of the few profitable unicorns with around 12 million customers. In an exclusive conversation on Forbes India Pathbreakers, the co-founder and CEO says, “One of the ways to succeed in business is to sharpen your axe before you go chopping wood. Building a business is really hard but there is an illusion over the last four to five years that you can build a business quickly. Last five to seven years all businesses starting out have been cut-copy-paste models and the odds of building a resilient business that way is much lesser.” He talks about starting out, building the business and more.