‘He was our biggest cheerleader’: Zerodha boss Nithin Kamath pens emotional post for his father, says he was the ‘1st customer’ for him & brother Nikhil in their start-up journey

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unconditional love.
Entrepreneurship can be a lonely journey. Aside from financial resources, if you don’t have a solid support system, it can be very difficult to stay emotionally stable when you meet with setbacks or obstacles.

There is no substitute for a loving parent who offers unconditional support to children who embark on off-beat career paths.
Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath, recently penned an emotional post, thanking his father for being a beacon of support to him and his brother Nikhil.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter) on December 28, the entrepreneur shared some adorable family pictures of himself posing with his father and wrote, how his father had been the “biggest cheerleader” to himself and his brother Nikhil and had also provided them with seed capital/financial support early on in their entrepreneurial journey.

“None of the success that's ascribed to us would have happened without my father. He was not only the biggest cheerleader of @nikhilkamathcio and me but also the first customer whenever we attempted something. In a way, he was our VC.

He gave me the initial seed capital when I decided to trade, he was my first customer when I did multi-level marketing, and the first customer when I started a sub-brokerage and portfolio management business. He supported us in anything that we tried, no matter how foolish it seemed in hindsight. All of this with the limited resources he had access to,” wrote the billionaire.