In his newest Podcast, Nikhil Kamath, finest generally known as a serial entrepreneur who co-founded low cost brokerage Zerodha, pledged Rs 50 lakhs for charity alongside Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.
Kamath has been internet hosting a podcast referred to as WTF is the place he discusses problems with present relevance with specialists from numerous industries. Current company on WTF is included Bollywood actor Suniel Shetty, Mukesh Bhansal, CEO of health platform Cult.match, Kishore Biyani, CEO of the Future Group and most not too long ago Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, entrepreneur and founding father of Biocon Restricted, who, within the seventh episode of the podcast, spoke in regards to the challenges she encountered whereas establishing her biotech firm. Additionally, in the identical episode, Kamath declared that each episode of WTF is can be pledging a specific amount in the direction of a democratically determined charity, with the quantity pooled in by each Kamath and his visitor on the podcast. The ultimate alternative of the charity can be made by the listeners/viewers as they get to vote on the charity which will get the funds. The ballot is presently stay till August 4, 8pm.
Kamath has hosted Varun Mayya, the CEO of Scenes & Tech Skilled, comic Tanmay Bhatt, Umang Bedi, the Co-founder of Josh and DailyHunt and Aprameya RadhaKrishna, Co-founder of TaxiForSure and Koo to debate ChatGPT in considered one of his episodes. His podcast, says the host, brings to the audiences informal but intellectually stimulating conversations with trade specialists, sharing insights on skilled journeys and life past enterprise. The podcast covers a broad vary of subjects together with expertise, social media, renewable power, electrical automobiles, philosophy, gaming, psychology and extra.
In one of many episodes, when speaking about the opportunity of synthetic intelligence resulting in despair amongst techies, he stated,”I’ve found out the key of happiness and contentment- Low expectations. Each thinker, each faculty of thought that you just learn from ever, you are taking Buddhism, you are taking Confucianism, you are taking something. I really feel like being detached and having actually low expectations is the important thing to happiness and content material.”
In a world the place philanthropy and social accountability have gotten extra important, Nikhil Kamath’s initiative exemplifies how enterprise leaders can create a optimistic affect past the company world. Not too long ago, he was a part of a three-person delegation (the opposite two had been industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Anand Mahindra) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a go to to the White Home.