Musings

An assorted collection of thoughts on business, finance, and life. Browse by tags.

28 May 2021

A few thoughts on the Zerodha journey so far

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Buying more of an asset as it goes down is a common behaviour among retail investors....
19 May 2021

The biggest wealth destroyer when investing

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Buying more of an asset as it goes down is a common behaviour among retail investors....
19 May 2021

The risk of offering high leverages

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With Crypto exchanges offering 10 to 100x leverage on futures, I wonder how these platforms monitor the liquidity position...
14 May 2021

On the Panic With Friends podcast with Howard Lindzon

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In conversation with Howard Lindzon...
11 May 2021

Helping people take care of mental health during

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While we figure ways to help those directly affected by Corona, I think it is also super important that all of us take care of ourselves...
06 May 2021

Worklife balance at Zerodha

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At Zerodha, we have just killed all work-related chats post 6 pm & holidays. Also trying to get as many conversations to be asynchronous...
24 Apr 2021

The pandemic has shown us it's the right time to move away from cities

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The silver lining in these trying times is that people are more open than ever to move out of large cities...
24 Apr 2021

Why FOSS?

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Every time we share a tech blog post, we get a lot of love from the tech community, but also questions like why FOSS?...
15 Apr 2021

Why doesn't Zerodha advertise?

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One thing I get asked the most and I’ve tweeted about this numerous times is that why don’t we advertise...
11 Apr 2021

Podcast with Prateek Singh, the founder of LearnApp

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We've constantly shared things to educate people about the capital markets from the beginning at Zerodha....
07 Apr 2021

Right now is probably the stupidest time for fintech firms

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Right now, is probably the stupidest time for fintech firms like Zerodha to be raising money. It is quite crazy the number of folks reaching out & the different deals...
07 Apr 2021

Why you shouldn't raise money just because you can

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Right now, is probably the stupidest time for fintech firms like @zerodhaonline to be raising money. It is quite crazy the number of folks reaching out & the different deals. We might regret it in the future, but we are not raising & here are the counterintuitive reasons why.
03 Apr 2021

Risks of running a brokerage firm

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Being a broker is almost like running an insurance busines. You're one black swan event away from giving back your premiums (brokerage income)...
01 Apr 2021

Mis-selling is a systemic issue.

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Mis-selling is a more systemic issue, not with one bank but across the board, banks to ed-tech to fintech...
26 Mar 2021

How to know when odds are higher?

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The decision to trade should have multiple checkboxes, can’t just be one...
23 Mar 2021

Market size estimates

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Market size estimate (Revenue), from the two reports that I just read...
21 Mar 2021

a career highpoint

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Dad's first time on screen. Seeing him so proud is a career highpoint...
19 Mar 2021

CNBC India business leader award

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CNBC India business leader awards...
16 Mar 2021

A nudge to stop people from losing money in Rights Entitlements

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Many retail investors buy Rights Entitlements (REs) without knowing that the value of REs will be zero if they don't apply...
15 Mar 2021

My view on reduction of intraday leverages

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My view on the reduction of intraday leverages is that there will be near-term pain (for Zerodha too). We'll see a drop in trading volumes and an increase in impact cost...