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Nikhil Kamath: The making and myths of India’s self-made billionaire

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“If you want to portray an accurate picture of me to your audience, you shouldn’t care about if I get offended, right? Pick the faults in my life, pick what you do not agree with…” 

-Nikhil Kamath, on a podcast in 2021


If you were to ask Nikhil Kamath to tell you his story, he would have the answer down pat. After all, it’s one the 39-year-old and his interviewers have recounted over and over again for the last five years, as a whole and in parts, on podcasts where he was a guest and where he’s the host. 

Middle-class upbringing. School dropout. Call centre employee and trader. Then, co-founder of the hugely profitable startup Zerodha. Billionaire. Investor. Philanthropist. And, most recently, the host of “WTF is”, his viral........

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