Rohit Saxena

CEO & Serial entrepreneur. Marketing, Startups, was in valley for 12yrs. Starting up fresh in India, Founder and CEO of a FinTech startup space.

[Navneet Mundhra @navneet_mundhra]

As much as he's an affable guy, I hate to say that professionally #AbhishekBachchan is the prime example of how buying awards and aggressive PR pushes can keep you relevant... even if you don't have a single SOLO blockbuster in your career.

He won an award for #IWantToTalk this year... A film which no one saw apart from a few PAID reviewers. And now I see all these tweets saying 2025 is HIS year. HILARIOUS !!

There are far better actors than him who deserve more recognition, work, appreciation & awards.... but alas! They don't have PR smarts & money.

#FilmfareAwards2025 #ShoojitSircar

[TBPN @tbpn]

Bret Taylor (@btaylor) on the “triple, triple, double, double” debate:

“The faster you grow is sometimes correlated with a lack of a moat… I’d rather bet on durable, high-quality revenue and happy customers than just raw growth.”

[WIRED @WIRED]

The chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive can converse with readers, summarize insights from its journalism, and suggest new content from across its sites. Its an effort to beat the AI industry at its own game. https://t.co/G0a68VYEZ8

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

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 getting here. And maybe another 10 years, before Zerodha, I was involved in the markets in some form. So, 25 years in all. Things in business compound over time, especially if you like or love what you are doing and if you are lucky to be in the right place and time.

When we started Zerodha, we started off as a partnership firm because the exchange deposit requirement was lower, Rs 90 lks compared to Rs 1.5 cr. The start was mainly enabled thanks to the NSE Now trading platform, which came free of cost if you were an NSE broker. For the backoffice piece, sending contract notes, maintaining ledgers, etc., we signed up with a vendor who basically gave it at almost 0 cost. This was provided that we tested out his platform.

So the money we have spent on Zerodha is maybe ~Rs 10lks, and that is all the money that has gone into the business till date. Rs 2.5 lks for our website, Rs 5lks for our office interiors (we had an office before), and Rs 2.5 lks for miscellaneous. So, we came from an extremely middle-class background and had no rich uncles. 😀 Dad was a bank manager, and Mom taught Veena.

Our rise coincides with India's rise. We were present at the right place and time with the right products and initiatives. Any gyan any founder gives, eventually comes down to getting timing right, and this has got everything to do with luck. 😀 I was just reading about Jensen Huang from Nvidia, he survived in the business for 30 years until he hit the right place and time. For a long time, people might have questioned what he was doing until very recently. 😀

Now that there is no pressure to give any exit to any investor, we can continue doing what is right for the customer, sometimes even at the cost of the business. For example, our no spam or no tracking policy. I believe that the philosophy with which we run Zerodha will be our real moat as a business. It is very tough to stick to it as a public company.

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

@santoshpanda @narendramodi Arre mere blind bhakt...ek baar replies toh padh leta before sharing this PR 🤦‍♂️

Sadly such folks will destroy India with their sycophancy 😓

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

As usual we love to live in the past... Sengol is being sold to all media channels.

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

First build education without coaching classes

Hasn't learned his lesson post his AI will disrupt books stupidity.

[Gaurav Munjal @gauravmunjal]

Someone should at least launch a company that builds Driverless Golf Carts for Hotels and Resorts.

Technology is already here. Cruise and Wavye are live in US and UK respectively.

We don’t have the Roads for Driverless Cars yet. But we can start with controlled environments. This can be a good way to get a foot in the door. Once people use it in Hotels, it will also remove the stigma associated with a new technology like this.

And then you expand to more and more controlled environments.

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

Congratulations @KishanPanpalia https://t.co/fdUIDtUMTg

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

They should just start preemptively arresting anyone on the Forbes 30 Under 30.

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

Funny (& sad) this 30under30 scam is still being publicly appreciated, and that too by CEO's like Anirudh!

It's literally a red flag when you see someone with this label on the profile. An immediate no-go.

[Anirudh Singla @SinglaAnirudh]

A story that’ll make you believe about grit and entrepreneurial zest and inspire you! Congratulations Kishan!

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

@amitdharwadkar @shachinb Might be, but I (and I guess audience like sachin) have long deleted FB...don't even recall when I last visited an FB link!

I guess Pune Eat Outs caters to a older age audience, who probably are still using FB.

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

This platform can be very powerful.

A location driven network removes the friction finding of individuals & hashtags driven topics. Also adds great context to your neighbourhood. So many use cases possible.

But guys pls fix (your half baked) discovery of content.

[Markk – Share place stories @markk_app]

FIFA World Cup is happening in 2022 in Qatar!

One of their architects is Markk’ing every stadiums’ story 💯

From Arabic history to stadiums that will be completely dismounted, fascinating design & engineering!

Story of Lusail where finals will happen 👉🏽 https://t.co/b4gVMqUGLI

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

While many people keep joking on this - The logic is people get time to step out in evenings (once work is done) Restaurants, movies, walks, shopping etc.

Yes they can do this in day time also but that will be less. Stop movement when max people have possibility to go out.

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Serious question - how do night curfews help in reducing spread of #COVID19?

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

Also was amazed at how vibrant the Pune ecosystem has become... was surprised to so many new founders at the Matrix mixer yesterday.

Thinking whether setting up permanent base in Pune would make sense

[Mashable @mashable]

Hello, sustainable construction!

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

@aparanjape @sudhirmehtapune Was stuck here for 25mins yesterday! Dread heading to SB Rd from Aundh... not sure why they simply don't open up the right turn with another signal (instead of the U turn)

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

As expected @vaibhavbetter was the star of the show and was also good to bump into @sinhaanurag14

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

The @matrixindiavc guys are probably one of the most THAKELA VCs in India... was at the #Pune mixer event yesterday & the partners... I mean 😴🥱🤐

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

First they said get vaccinated - It avoids severe cases now they saying you will still land up in ICUs 🥲

Why take the vaccine then - complete stupidity. Docs like these do 2 things - One discourage vaccines and two imply that we can never live normal lives🙏

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

Vaccines do not exempt you from masking and distancing. For those thinking it’ll only be mild disease, if at all, we’re getting double dose vaxx patients in Covid ICUs with severe disease. It’s much easier dealing with the discomfort masks cause than post-covid complications.

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

Truecaller is going IPO!

[Rohit Saxena @RohitSaxena_]

What a beautiful day