Episode 35 - How did a high school dropout become a billionaire?

Wamda

The school dropout who becomes a successful entrepreneur seems like a typical Silicon Valley success story, but where the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of university, Nikhil Kamath left school at the age of 14 with no qualifications. Twenty years later, Kamath is among India’s most successful entrepreneurs, having built Zerodha, the country’s largest retail brokerage with a daily turnover of $10 billion and wholly-owned by Nikhil and his brother without any external funding.

A serial entrepreneur, Kamath is also one of India’s youngest billionaires. In this podcast, we find out more about his journey to success, his regrets and advice for those embarking on their own entrepreneurship journey.