Wealth
The reading on founder money.
For the situation only founders are in: most of your net worth locked in one company, income that arrives in lumps, and ESOPs, secondaries and exits no personal-finance guide covers. The resources behind 154 answered questions, each with a note on why it is here.
Curated reading that points you to the sources, not personalised investment advice.
What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.
- A no-nonsense, ad-light India personal-finance site: plain math and free calculators for emergency funds, goals, and asset... Freefincal Tool Freefincal: goal-based planning and calculators M. Pattabiraman In 62 answers
- The free, India-first grounding in what to do with cash once you have it: goals, allocation, SIPs, and not losing it to fees. Zerodha Varsity Course Personal Finance Zerodha Varsity In 56 answers
- A trusted India-first place to compare funds and think about where cash goes once you have some to invest. Value Research Tool Value Research: fund research and planning Value Research In 18 answers
- Zerodha Varsity free module on how investment income is taxed in India: capital gains, holding periods, and turnover, in plain... Zerodha Varsity Course Markets and Taxation Zerodha Varsity In 10 answers
Run the numbers
Quick, private wealth calculators: what a funding round does to your stake, what an SIP could grow to, and the real cash cost of exercising your ESOPs. Everything runs in your browser.
The people behind the resources
Voices worth learning from: the educators, authors, and publications whose public work on founder money runs through this hub.
Wealth for a founder building from India
23 of our resources are tagged for India: how ESOPs are actually taxed here, what a secondary looks like under Indian rules, and where a founder parks money.
