Hi Guys,

I am posting my notes from this wonderful podcast by @BeerBicepsGuy .

@Nithin0dha is one of the few grounded men in Indian startup industry, especially #fintech

#Thread follows ๐Ÿ‘‡ https://twitter.com/BeerBicepsGuy/status/1298658969242697731
#๐Ÿ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ at @zerodhaonline

" We are an elephant, running like cheetah"
#๐Ÿ ๐“๐š๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š

Indian income tax structure is favorable for promoters who are willing to sell their stakes

~50%+ tax on business profits considering tax on dividend distribution

~10-20% tax on capital gains tax on stake sale
#๐Ÿ‘ ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐“๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ฎ๐ฉ

Long term equity investments ~1%
Intra-day trades ~9%
Derivatives trades ~90%

There are only few 10-15 lacs active traders in India who generate 99% of exchange turnover
#๐Ÿ’ ๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐๐ž๐ซ

a) Conservative about risk
b) Focus on long term consistent performance instead of few big wins (E.g. Poker)
c) Suitable position sizing
d) Control over compulsive emotions
e) Stoic Approach
#๐Ÿ“ ๐’๐ž๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐ 

Successful traders don't focus on money, instead their significant effort and focus goes into building a right process and consistent execution of the same over longer period
#๐Ÿ” ๐Ž๐ง ๐™๐ž๐ซ๐จ๐๐ก๐š
a) Zero rupees spent on advertising
b) First 100 employees are still with Zerodha
c) Highest employee retention in industry
d) Focus on bringing passionate people onboard, taking good care of them as they build a great product, customers spread the word !
#๐Ÿ• ๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐–๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ

What you should do before you start a start-up ?

Build your core competencies.

Few might have been lucky in making it big in starting business without having core-competencies required, but that's very few of them. (say 1-2 out of 1000)
#๐Ÿ– ๐Ž๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ

He believes,
" People who can pick an idea and build that into a product are X-Men of today's world"
#๐Ÿ— ๐Ž๐ง ๐†๐จ๐จ๐ ๐Š๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐š

The more you do good for others, the more good luck comes back to you

Shares details on his initiatives
A) Varsity : Free education on capital markets
B) Rain Matter: Funded ~12 fintech startups who are working in capital markets' ecosystem
#๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐Ž๐ง ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ง ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ญ ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง

Reasons:
a) Low interest rates
b) WFH made people think about personal finances
c) Instant opening of Demat A/c
d) Reduced discretionary spend
#๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐Ž๐ง ๐‚๐Ž๐•๐ˆ๐ƒ-๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—

Has very pessimistic view on overall situation
Says "Markets are not moving as per ground economic realities, may correct any time"

Don't try to time the markets

Hope is not the strategy.
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