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n a watershed moment for the nation's technology narrative, Indian AI startups have collectively attracted $50 billion in global investment — a milestone that cements India's position as the world's third-largest AI innovation hub.
Nithin Kamath was 17 years old when he lost everything. He had been trading stocks with money saved from odd jobs—a few thousand rupees, painstakingly accumulated—and in a single session, the market took it all. The loss was not a setback. It was an education. Most teenagers who blow their savings on the stock market either quit trading or spend years chasing their losses. Kamath did neither. He studied what went wrong. He learned about risk management, position sizing, and the psychological discipline that separates traders from gamblers. He rebuilt his capital, trade by trade, and by the time he was in his early twenties, he was managing money for other people. The boy who lost everything at 17 would eventually become the co-founder of Zerodha, India's largest stockbroker—a company that has never raised a rupee of venture capital, has been profitable since inception, and now generates annual revenue exceeding ₹8,500 crore with a profit approaching ₹5,000 crore.