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Zerodha Varsity in 2023

Karthik Rangappa · Z-Connect by Zerodha Free Beginner India

Education is the distribution channel, and this is written by the person who built it, with the actual scale: certification cohorts, colleges, and a curriculum reaching government schools.

  • The Varsity Certified program drew nearly 2,500 sign-ups in 2023, with about 550 candidates passing.
  • Around 50 colleges came forward to collaborate, unprompted.
  • A teacher-training push covered roughly 525 schools across 13 blocks of Nagpur district, reaching about 15,000 students.
  • The whole content team went from 1 person to 5 that year.
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  1. How did Zerodha become India's largest broker with no ads and no sales team?

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