Kailash Nadh on building Zerodha | Vishnu's Podcast
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Kailash Nadh on building Zerodha | Vishnu's Podcast
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How do you build internet-scale financial systems without venture capital, ads, or growth-hacking?
In this episode, Vishnu speaks with Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha - one of the world’s largest trading platforms. They cover how Zerodha stays fully bootstrapped, remains highly profitable (USD 500 million+ in profit), and grows with zero ad spend.
They dig into Zerodha’s engineering philosophy, self-hosting, open source, privacy, and why the internet feels increasingly broken. This is a grounded conversation on scale, incentives, pessimism, and building companies that last.
Kailash: https://nadh.in/
Zerodha: https://zerodha.com/
FLOSS/Fund: https://floss.fund/
Ente: https://ente.com/
Chapters:
00:00 Start
00:16 FLOSS/fund
03:30 $500 million in profits
07:19 Company culture
13:04 Engineering problems
17:50 Childhood
26:36 Artificial Intelligence
28:36 Artificial General Intelligence
32:09 Venture Capital
41:21 Privacy
45:36 Climate Change
45:59 Next FOSS project
52:40 Inner peace
55:30 Learnings
1:01:20 Rapid fire
1:07:48 Social media
1:10:00 Optimism