| 1 | Feb 26, '24 | Around 6 weeks ago, I had a mild stroke out of the blue. Dad passing away, poor sleep, exhaustion, dehydration, and overworking out —any of these could be possible reasons. I've go | 23.9× | 3.6M | 20k | 1.1k | 1.6k |
| 2 | May 8, '23 | Being content is the only way to true freedom. A person who embodies this is my father-in-law, Shivaji Patil He was in the Indian Army & voluntarily retired as a Havaldar after | 18.5× | 2.8M | 39k | 4.3k | 1.2k |
| 3 | Feb 13, '23 | It was an honour to meet our PM @narendramodi. My new health & fitness goal is to be able to operate at his intensity when I am 72. He spent almost 30 mins late in the night in | 15.7× | 2.4M | 49k | 2.4k | 145 |
| 4 | Feb 14, '23 | We add millet (ragi) to wheat flour and dosa batter at home. It's healthier & tastier. Most of us don't know that millets are also good for the planet because they consume much | 13.4× | 2M | 13k | 1.6k | 769 |
| 5 | Nov 4, '25 | Hi Dr, your payout requests were processed yesterday. We need to ensure, for the sake of our systems' sanity (like all other financial services firms), that we have some checks in | 12.4× | 1.9M | 8k | 303 | 700 |
| 6 | May 12, '23 | We’ve just created an internal AI policy @zerodha to give clarity to the team, given the AI/job loss anxiety. This is our stance: "We will not fire anyone on the team just because | 11.9× | 1.8M | 7.3k | 771 | 535 |
| 7 | Apr 28, '23 | No Business Background No Pedigree education across the team No VC/PE No Advertising spending No Spamming customer @zerodha is an example that a successful business can be built by | 11.8× | 1.8M | 17k | 1.4k | 280 |
| 8 | Jun 23, '23 | There's a new scam in the name of FedEx, Blue Dart, and other courier companies that you need to be aware of 👇 A colleague got a call from a person claiming to be from FedEx sayin | 11.8× | 1.8M | 11k | 2.8k | 641 |
| 9 | May 22, '23 | Only about 50 lakhs or 0.3% of Indians go to a gym. Strength training is integral to increasing healthspan & we need more to focus on this. There is enough research to prove th | 9.7× | 1.5M | 5.7k | 845 | 678 |
| 10 | Jan 25, '23 | Starting tomorrow, India will become the first major market to completely move to a T+1 settlement cycle (China is partly T+1). It is crazy how far ahead we are in terms of market | 9.6× | 1.5M | 16k | 1.7k | 350 |
| 11 | Nov 4, '25 | Congrats on the IPO @lkeshre & team, and best of luck. Btw, about 20% of all @_groww IPO applications are from @zerodha customers. 😛 | 9.4× | 1.4M | 10k | 303 | 247 |
| 12 | Feb 4, '25 | The biggest takeaway for me after meeting @bryan_johnson was debunking the myth I once believed: that only Delhi in India has an air quality problem—and that it occurs only in wint | 9.1× | 1.4M | 7.1k | 878 | 995 |
| 13 | Oct 5, '23 | Turned 44 today at 14.3% body fat, the lowest I have been. Sharing publicly for accountability, so I don’t slack and revert back to the mean, 🥶and maybe inspire a few folks and re | 8.5× | 1.3M | 24k | 515 | 351 |
| 14 | Dec 30, '22 | I have spent the last couple of years thinking quite a bit about health. Experimenting with myself and our team, and supporting startups that are trying to help Indians make health | 8.5× | 1.3M | 8.3k | 1.3k | 1.8k |
| 15 | May 3, '23 | Someone I know got scammed & lost money. It started with a response to a part-time job offer on WhatsApp. The first few tasks were about leaving fake reviews for resorts & | 8.4× | 1.3M | 6.4k | 1.8k | 575 |
| 16 | Feb 28, '25 | The markets are finally correcting. Given that markets swing between extremes, they can fall more just like they rose to the peak. I've no idea where the markets go from here, but | 8.3× | 1.2M | 8.6k | 1.3k | 1.1k |
| 17 | Nov 3, '25 | If you take money out of a business as dividends, the effective tax rate is 52% (25% corporate tax + 35.5% on personal income). Through capital gains, it's just 14.95% (with cess). | 7.8× | 1.2M | 5.8k | 781 | 3k |
| 18 | Sep 18, '23 | A colleague had to visit a bank branch offline to close a personal loan he took online. This branch was one of only 2 in Bangalore. It's the same with many other banks. Making it h | 6.9× | 1M | 6.7k | 745 | 243 |
| 19 | Jun 29, '23 | Corporate governance issues coming to light in Indian startups will only increase with time. While founders will be blamed, the venture capital (VC) ecosystem is equally to blame T | 6.9× | 1M | 6.6k | 951 | 694 |
| 20 | Aug 30, '24 | Most Indians are just 1 hospitalisation away from bankruptcy. A good health insurance plan is mandatory. | 6.8× | 1M | 8.9k | 1.5k | 7.6k |
| 21 | Sep 16, '25 | Someone on Reddit asked what does Zerodha do differently, how are we profitable, why don't IPO etc. This is what I replied: Hmmm... so you forget that we have spent 15 years gettin | 6.3× | 956k | 14k | 1.1k | 2.8k |
| 22 | Jan 10, '23 | We've always believed that bonds and maybe not stocks are the right stepping stone for most Indians—better than FD returns but lower risk than stocks. But bonds have been an HNI pr | 6.1× | 914k | 4.8k | 494 | 668 |
| 23 | Mar 13, '23 | It is ridiculous how many things can go wrong when running a business. Everything from rapid change to market sentiment to waking up one day and being unable to access money in the | 5.9× | 888k | 5.9k | 481 | 304 |
| 24 | Jan 15, '25 | Imagine this: A stranger approaches you and asks to use your phone to make an emergency call. Most well-meaning people would probably hand over their phone. But this is a new scam. | 5.6× | 839k | 5.7k | 1.6k | 1.7k |
| 25 | Sep 28, '23 | Every time our financials are out, there is a lot of speculation about @zerodha's valuation. It might sound counterintuitive for me to say it, but most assumptions, I think, are wa | 5.5× | 823k | 4.9k | 350 | 417 |
| 26 | Nov 29, '24 | The trend of these frauds are increasing. The past 9 months alone have had scams worth 11000 crores! I dread to think what it will be like once the fraudsters use AI. 😔 One thing | 5.3× | 797k | 5k | 880 | 1k |
| 27 | Dec 16, '22 | I still remember the formula for the area of a circle or that CH3OH is Methanol from school. Similarly, If we taught finance basics in school, like why start investing early, infla | 5.1× | 770k | 8.2k | 731 | 187 |
| 28 | Aug 30, '23 | We launched verified P&L at @zerodha to bring accountability, given all the fake P&L screenshots and videos shared on social media to peddle courses, advisory, trading accounts, & | 5.0× | 755k | 4.4k | 356 | 140 |
| 29 | Jan 25, '25 | We have been using Zerodor (@EkamEco) for the men’s urinals at our offices for the last six months or so. Our water bills are down 50%—we did not expect it to be this much. It seem | 5.0× | 750k | 9.7k | 986 | 1.7k |
| 30 | Jan 17, '23 | Allowing NRIs to open demat accounts online is the low-hanging fruit to attract money to India. The process today is physical and cumbersome. With Indian markets doing well, there' | 4.9× | 736k | 6.2k | 556 | 174 |
| 31 | Sep 2, '24 | Today, if you are interested in installing some solar panels but don't have the roof space necessary because you live in an apartment or a rented house, there's no solution. Despit | 4.8× | 722k | 5.9k | 567 | 1.5k |
| 32 | Feb 22, '23 | 🙏 | 4.5× | 674k | 8.7k | 295 | 48 |
| 33 | Mar 29, '23 | Buying a health insurance plan for the family is the most important financial investment you can make, given the costs of serious health incidents. Even before you do anything else | 4.4× | 667k | 4.3k | 509 | 577 |
| 34 | Aug 21, '23 | "India has 140 crore people, and if X% can become customers because of Y% in a developed country," is a dangerous line of thinking for founders and investors. While building for up | 4.4× | 664k | 4.7k | 604 | 554 |
| 35 | Aug 11, '23 | We just received the final approval for the @ZerodhaAMC we are building in partnership with @smallcaseHQ. Our motivation to start a mutual fund was twofold. The first was that the | 4.3× | 651k | 7.6k | 476 | 154 |
| 36 | Oct 29, '22 | What Gen Z & even millennials don't think about enough is that the retirement age is dropping fast due to technological progress & life expectancy going up due to medical p | 4.3× | 0 | 14k | 2.4k | 2.3k |
| 37 | Mar 8, '22 | Seema, my wife, was diagnosed with breast cancer last Nov. She decided to share her journey & learnings till now to create awareness on cancer & the importance of regular h | 4.3× | 0 | 17k | 2.3k | 505 |
| 38 | Jul 24, '23 | We have good news for all @zerodha option traders, @BeSensibull will now be completely free. We cover the costs so that @abidsensibull & Team can focus on only one thing: Help | 4.0× | 600k | 5.2k | 486 | 182 |
| 39 | Sep 23, '23 | It took us 6 years to get to our first 60k customers, each of whom had to sign and courier 40+ pages of forms and wait for days. We got to 1 crore customers in the next 6, entirely | 3.9× | 589k | 4.8k | 341 | 259 |
| 40 | Nov 25, '23 | After a long time, we have had massive activity in the IPO market, with Rs 2.6lk cr blocked in bank accounts for IPOs worth Rs 7.6k cr. If this was 2003, it would take 16 working d | 3.8× | 570k | 4.7k | 521 | 211 |
| 41 | Jun 4, '24 | Activity today on Kite 😬 | 3.7× | 562k | 5k | 347 | 248 |
| 42 | Nov 8, '22 | Just watched Kantara, & it is one of those moments when you feel proud to be a Kannadiga. Even more, since my roots are where the movie was shot. Still have goosebumps from the | 3.4× | 0 | 17k | 870 | 54 |
| 43 | Apr 6, '23 | India is unique. Copy-pasting models from the US, etc, has hardly worked. Paytm's speaker for Indian vendors that reads out payments is one of the best examples of a product made s | 3.4× | 518k | 5.7k | 445 | 159 |
| 44 | Mar 6, '23 | We celebrate valuations, but the more I speak to founders, the more I'm convinced high valuations are detrimental. Higher valuations are mostly a result of overstating the size of | 3.4× | 512k | 4.3k | 386 | 254 |
| 45 | Jul 18, '23 | There has been a spate of suicides due to harassment by loan agents of shady and illegal predatory loan apps. If you are a victim of harassment, file a complaint at or call 1930. W | 3.2× | 481k | 4.3k | 1.1k | 365 |
| 46 | Dec 28, '23 | Luck is a big part of any success in life. It starts right from birth, with our genes, parents, family, etc.—all of these are the luck of the draw. None of the success that's ascri | 3.2× | 480k | 8.1k | 338 | 358 |
| 47 | Jul 2, '25 | Many people asked me about Jio-BlackRock getting a stockbroking license. Firstly, this is great news. The biggest issue for the Indian markets is a lack of breadth in participation | 3.0× | 448k | 4.4k | 272 | 522 |
| 48 | Oct 29, '25 | If there’s one thing I wish I had done differently when I was hit by a stroke last January, it would be to go to the hospital immediately, within the Golden Hour (<4.5 hours), inst | 2.9× | 441k | 4.9k | 762 | 1.8k |
| 49 | Jul 16, '25 | Storage was the only permission we used to ask for, and we've removed that as well. It's now 0 permissions out of 10 😀 | 2.8× | 425k | 8.7k | 609 | 758 |
| 50 | Jan 29, '21 | We have a habit of looking west and thinking what they do must be right. With all the craziness going on in the US capital markets, I thought it will be a good time to share some o | 2.8× | 0 | 8.7k | 2.2k | 954 |
| 51 | May 30, '21 | I’m surprised by the unwanted noise around this whole salary news of @nikhilkamathcio, Seema (my wife), & me. The headlines are misleading. We are a private company & no ob | 2.7× | 0 | 11k | 1k | 348 |
| 52 | Apr 7, '22 | We are running a fun health program at @zerodha. Anyone on our team with BMI <25 gets half a month's salary as bonus. The avg BMI of our team is 25.3 & if we can get to < | 2.7× | 0 | 7.6k | 532 | 188 |
| 53 | Nov 5, '25 | This has to be the most unique use case for Kite APIs 😂 @the2ndfloorguy | 2.6× | 396k | 6.9k | 209 | 286 |
| 54 | Jan 31, '21 | The worst times in my life have been when I owed money for spending it on things I didn't really need. In a world where everyone is trying to lend, the first lesson of personal fin | 2.4× | 0 | 10k | 1.1k | 220 |
| 55 | May 19, '22 | How large is the Indian market for B2C tech businesses in terms of users who can generate revenue? Maybe 15 crores max! Here's why, with Fintech as a reference, since some data is | 2.4× | 0 | 6.3k | 1.5k | 1.5k |
| 56 | Jan 10, '25 | I had a question that @nikhilkamathcio failed to ask: What is PM @narendramodi's skin regimen? 😬 Jokes apart, this is epic! @nikhilkamathcio started doing podcasts a year ago, and | 2.4× | 355k | 6.9k | 416 | 171 |
| 57 | May 4, '24 | My phone has become unusable due to telemarketing and is always silent. Guess what goes around comes around. I spent four years at a call center, making unsolicited calls to people | 2.3× | 353k | 4.7k | 134 | 196 |
| 58 | May 7, '25 | In the next release, we @zerodha won't even ask for storage permission. 😬 Image: @livemint | 2.3× | 352k | 4.9k | 478 | 766 |
| 59 | Nov 11, '25 | I just discovered that Robinhood will generate approximately $150 million (~₹1,300 crores) in revenue from the fees it charges for processing instant client withdrawals. Their cost | 2.3× | 352k | 5.1k | 294 | 640 |
| 60 | May 8, '23 | I have been geeking out about increasing healthspan or how to live a good life until the end. I have no doubt that the answer is to be content and never stop being active mentally | 2.3× | 344k | 7.5k | 359 | 82 |
| 61 | Mar 30, '25 | So, yeah, fourteen months after the stroke, my body is almost back to normal 😬, and my mind is at about 85%. My writing hasn’t improved at all. Maybe because I don’t practice enou | 2.2× | 339k | 6k | 136 | 204 |
| 62 | Apr 7, '21 | 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. We migh | 2.2× | 0 | 7.9k | 1.1k | 448 |
| 63 | May 17, '25 | CBSE tells schools to establish Sugar Boards to monitor and reduce sugar. This is a step in the right direction. Thanks @foodpharmer2 for sharing. Now to figure out how to get pare | 1.9× | 290k | 5.6k | 862 | 312 |
| 64 | Oct 25, '22 | As we celebrate Laksmi Puja this Deepavali, here's an interesting anecdote. Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, sits on a lotus. Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, sits on a rock. Th | 1.9× | 0 | 8.5k | 881 | 179 |
| 65 | Apr 20, '22 | It has been one of those years for Seema Patil, the types that could have broken anyone. To the strongest person I know, happy birthday 🎂 | 1.9× | 0 | 10k | 166 | 27 |
| 66 | Jun 4, '21 | Twitter @premiumbusiness just reminded me of my school & college days, almost always rejected. 😭😬 | 1.9× | 0 | 8.8k | 392 | 41 |
| 67 | Apr 24, '21 | While we all work together to figure out what we can do to help in the current situation, I think the only long-term fix is for as many of us to move away from large cities. This i | 1.8× | 0 | 6.5k | 1.3k | 159 |
| 68 | Oct 13, '20 | How it started: How it's going: 😬 | 1.8× | 0 | 8.6k | 426 | 49 |
| 69 | Oct 13, '22 | "The hour of the Indian economy," says La Vanguardia, a leading Spanish daily. Quite cool that the world is taking notice, but the cultural caricaturing, a snake charmer to represe | 1.7× | 0 | 6.5k | 965 | 84 |
| 70 | Jan 27, '22 | A lot of messages asking me if one should exit FDs, Debt funds & buy the dip. This is what I am saying: Not every dip is like March 2020 where the bounce back is immediate. Thi | 1.7× | 0 | 7k | 821 | 352 |
| 71 | Dec 12, '22 | Seema is now cancer free. We celebrated by running the super fun @DevilsCircuit last week, along with a few others from @zerodha. 1 year from diagnosis to surgery to chemotherapy t | 1.6× | 0 | 8k | 192 | 39 |
| 72 | Dec 26, '24 | It's been a year since my dad passed away. On this occasion, my mom, @nikhilkamathcio, Seema, and all of us at @zerodha are proud to help set up the upcoming IISc Medical School/Ba | 1.6× | 235k | 4.6k | 240 | 100 |
| 73 | Jul 16, '21 | Almost 20% of all @zomato applications through @zerodha. @deepigoyal, returning the favour from everyone at Zerodha for all the tasty food Zomato delivered when we were hungry. 😋 | 1.5× | 0 | 7.9k | 236 | 22 |
| 74 | Apr 28, '21 | I don’t know if I am the only one, but stock markets going up the last 3 days not caring about everything happening around us is quite disgusting. I know money shouldn’t care, but | 1.5× | 0 | 5.4k | 592 | 63 |
| 75 | Oct 11, '21 | The new cars from M&M & Tata have to be making each one of us feeling proud🇮🇳 Finally feels like we can not only beat international cars in the same segment in pricing bu | 1.5× | 0 | 7.1k | 446 | 25 |
| 76 | Jun 11, '21 | Nifty futures turns 21 today. Nifty has been a big part of my life. I must have said Nifty more than any other word & looked at Nifty charts more than any other pic.😬I am gues | 1.5× | 0 | 7.3k | 352 | 15 |
| 77 | Sep 9, '22 | Most large Indian cities weren't built in a way to handle as many people living in them today. Disasters are bound to continue. The only real solution is to have many smaller citie | 1.4× | 0 | 5.7k | 783 | 162 |
| 78 | Aug 26, '22 | We, @zerodha, just got to 1 crore customers. Looking back, the biggest tipping point was AADHAR for online account opening. Can't thank the Government & SEBI & Exchanges &a | 1.4× | 0 | 5.9k | 460 | 240 |
| 79 | Nov 30, '22 | Whenever students ask me for advice, I say, stay in India. Not just because we need to avoid the brain drain or that there's an obligation to the country, but because India will mo | 1.4× | 0 | 4.5k | 729 | 826 |
| 80 | Nov 12, '21 | Why not IPO @zerodha when you can potentially get ridiculous valuations? Firstly, we think an IPO is the beginning & not the end. As soon as you have lakhs of conservative reta | 1.4× | 0 | 5.9k | 516 | 214 |
| 81 | Sep 3, '22 | Seema has bounced back in just 10 months since her breast cancer diagnosis, the mastectomy, chemo, & radiation, thanks to her healthy lifestyle before & after. Investing is | 1.4× | 0 | 6.9k | 229 | 65 |
| 82 | Dec 30, '21 | The number of people having severe heart issues in my extended circle is terrifying. The common thread seems to be sleep deprivation, and not nearly enough is spoken about the impo | 1.4× | 0 | 5.3k | 763 | 255 |
| 83 | Nov 17, '20 | This will be the Nudge on Kite tomorrow for people trying to buy Lakshmi Vilas Bank without knowing the news. Nudge is by far the most exciting thing we're working on at Zerodha. W | 1.3× | 0 | 6.3k | 327 | 24 |
| 84 | Nov 27, '21 | The only reason why we do a valuation exercise at Zerodha every year is for our ESOP buyback. I keep getting asked why are we valuing ourselves at just $2Billion currently when sma | 1.3× | 0 | 5.2k | 511 | 416 |
| 85 | Sep 7, '21 | SEBI allows T+1 settlement for stocks. We are now amongst the first few countries in the world to allow this. So when you buy you can get stock to your Demat or get funds for the s | 1.3× | 0 | 5.8k | 572 | 92 |
| 86 | May 10, '22 | The sharp fall in the stock prices of high growth tech companies across the globe is getting crazy, feels like the dot-com boom. India has weathered the storm mostly because not ma | 1.3× | 0 | 5.3k | 569 | 330 |
| 87 | Oct 28, '21 | Every time there is a corporate action like a stock split in #IRCTC today and the stock price drops in adjustment, retail investors tend to buy the stock wrongly thinking that the | 1.3× | 0 | 5.7k | 411 | 108 |
| 88 | Jan 11, '22 | Over $400billion went out of India to import gold vs $600 billion+ that came in through FPI, FDI & VC. Imagine, instead of gold, some of that money was invested in Indian start | 1.2× | 0 | 4.5k | 699 | 195 |
| 89 | Jan 17, '22 | Every budget day for the last 15+ years, I've woken up hoping that STT is reduced. 😬 Zerodha customers alone pay ~₹2500 cores in STT, stamp duty, & GST annually. Overall, trad | 1.2× | 0 | 5.3k | 536 | 79 |
| 90 | Nov 25, '21 | I keep getting asked how we use AI/ML/Blockchain at @zerodha, and I keep saying we don't and haven't found any use-case yet. This time I asked our man behind the scene, Dr K, to co | 1.2× | 0 | 4.5k | 640 | 215 |
| 91 | Oct 6, '22 | Starting this October 7th, every first Friday of the month, all brokerages must transfer unused funds back to the customer's bank account as part of the new account settlement (AS) | 1.2× | 0 | 4.8k | 525 | 285 |
| 92 | Jan 4, '21 | 🇺🇸: Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. 🇮🇳: Risk hai toh ishq hai. 😬 | 1.2× | 0 | 5.8k | 412 | 26 |
| 93 | Sep 1, '21 | So, we just got our in-principle approval for our AMC (MF) license. I guess now comes the hard part. | 1.1× | 0 | 5k | 273 | 47 |
| 94 | Feb 28, '22 | This is probably the first time our markets are less volatile than the US markets, something to be proud of. I think this is mainly due to much lesser leverage, both for intraday & | 1.1× | 0 | 5k | 376 | 122 |
| 95 | Jul 12, '22 | 🥶 | 1.0× | 0 | 4.5k | 355 | 79 |
| 96 | Aug 5, '22 | The queries we get. 😬 | 1.0× | 0 | 4.9k | 118 | 15 |
| 97 | Oct 5, '22 | How you take care of your health post 35 is what determines quality of life post 60. Thanks to medical progress most of us are going to live much longer than 60. Internalizing this | 1.0× | 0 | 4.6k | 242 | 141 |
| 98 | May 17, '22 | Don’t know how to say it, but slowdown & all😬 We still don't charge brokerage for equity delivery & charge Rs 20 or 0.03% whichever is lower for intraday. Many of our comp | 1.0× | 0 | 4.6k | 176 | 47 |
| 99 | Nov 10, '21 | From Feb 2022, the T+1 settlement cycle will be introduced in a phased manner in the Indian markets. The biggest benefit: You can withdraw funds within 1 day when you sell stocks. | 1.0× | 0 | 4.4k | 395 | 61 |
| 100 | Sep 15, '20 | We just provided liquidity to everyone on the team through an ESOP buyback. My most satisfying day as CEO of @zerodha. | 0.9× | 0 | 4.6k | 188 | 18 |
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