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Nithin Kamath on why Zerodha ignores exit pressure and lets the business compound

Nithin Kamath · LinkedIn Free Beginner India

Kamath built India's largest broker without VC money and here he explains the mindset that keeps him off the daily rollercoaster: no investor exit to chase, so no pressure to react to short-term numbers, and a deliberate bet that things compound over time if you love the work. That is the written-down thesis this question is about. When your story is compounding over years, one bad week cannot rewrite it, and an Indian founder saying it in plain terms lands harder than another Valley memo.

• Removing the pressure to hit someone else's metric removes most of the mood swing at its source
• Business compounds over time, so judge yourself on the multi-year arc, not this week's chart
• Writing down the philosophy you run on becomes your anchor when a single metric dips