Over coffee and canapes at Grasshopper Bangalore, Nithin Kamath shared his learnings and journey of building Zerodha from ground up, with a founding team of 1,000 that helped the bootstrapped business grow from 300,000 to 1.2 cr customers.

Key takeaways:

🎯A solid company culture solves for many challenges. Hire employees with the right values, who share your passion and purpose

🎯Be clear about your WHY. Make sure you love what you’re doing/ building

🎯Building the tech you need internally, reduces dependency and helps scale effectively

🎯When working with a co-founder, it helps to leverage your core competency

🎯It gets lonely at the top for men as well. Support from your core team helps

🎯The power of ‘word of mouth’ is underestimated. Consistently do what’s genuinely best for your customer > what’s better for the business. Eventually, the business wins

🎯Prioritise the long term (3-5 yrs) over short term (1 yr) when making critical decisions, however challenging it feels at that point

🎯Only take money from those who have the right buy-inThank you for the thoughtful gift Etchcraft Emporium.

Time: Tuesday, March 21, 4 to 5.30 pm
Venue: Grasshopper, 54, Bannerghatta Main Rd., near Meenakshi Temple, Kalena Agrahara, Bengaluru.