Meet the 'Maverick' behind India's biggest broking firm; Is Budget 2019 a chance to launch Startup India 2.0?

Thursday July 04, 2019 , 3 min Read

What does it take to build India's largest broker? What kind of work-life balance do you need to have to be that very person? Our featured Maverick, Nithin Kamath was introduced to the markets by his friends when he was 17 years old and traded in penny stocks. He dabbled his hands at trading stocks and took the biggest gamble in his life by starting Zerodha in the middle of a trading lull in 2010. Markets were in limbo after a crash the year earlier and most brokers were jumping ship to different things.

But none of that deterred Nithin. He kept going, kept building. Come 2019, the company currently has 1.5 million customers and 600,000 daily users and is building out its platform by investing in technology-driven financial startups, becoming India's largest broker in the process. In this week's Mavericks, we explore why Nithin bet big on the markets, his love for sports, and retiring to a beach shack.

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