Kailash Nadh - Podcast Details

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Moneycontrol Podcast Groww anchor book surge, Pine Labs trims IPO; Swiggy Instamart, Zepto slash delivery charges and Zerodha's CTO on how India's startup boom killed open sourceIn today’s Tech3 from Moneycontrol, we dive into a blockbuster week in Indian tech. Groww’s IPO sees record investor interest, while Pine Labs trims its issue size. Zepto and Swiggy Instamart battle it out in a quick commerce fee war, and Zerodha’s CTO Kailash Nadh opens up about how India’s startup boom dimmed open-source culture. Plus, Oyo walks back its controversial 6,000:1 bonus share plan after investor backlash.

2025-11-0308 min

Two by Two (Private)In an AI age, India does not have an open source strategyIn the 50th episode of Two by Two, hosts Rohin Dharmakumar and Praveen Gopal Krishnan examine the contrasting open-source trajectories of China, the US, and India in the context of AI, and where India fell short.While China, despite being authoritarian, has surged ahead in open-source AI leadership with models like DeepSeek R1, India has fallen behind. The 2010s are framed as a “lost decade” for Indian open source, characterised by a vibrant tech ecosystem that failed to foster a meaningful contribution culture.China’s rise can be attributed to its unique mix of strategic intent...

2025-07-101h 50

Two by Two In an AI age, India does not have an open source strategyIn the 50th episode of Two by Two, hosts Rohin Dharmakumar and Praveen Gopal Krishnan examine the contrasting open-source trajectories of China, the US, and India in the context of AI, and where India fell short.While China, despite being authoritarian, has surged ahead in open-source AI leadership with models like DeepSeek R1, India has fallen behind. The 2010s are framed as a “lost decade” for Indian open source, characterised by a vibrant tech ecosystem that failed to foster a meaningful contribution culture.China’s rise can be attributed to its unique mix of strategic intent...

2025-07-101h 51

Interpreting India Navigating the Open v. Closed Source AI Debate with Kailash NadhThe episode opens with an in-depth discussion about the value of open source as a model of development and how the definitional contours of open-source AI differ from those of traditional open-source software. The discussion also explores the characteristics and challenges that distinguish open-source AI models from conventional software development approaches.The discussion goes on to address recent strategic shifts in the AI industry towards more open development, sparked by developments like DeepSeek's open-source R1 model and leaked internal assessments suggesting that open-source communities may be outpacing tech giants.The discussion also explores the complex...

2025-06-2655 min

Postgres FM RLS vs performanceNikolay and Michael discuss Row Level Security in Postgres, focussing on the performance side effects and some tips to avoid (or minimize) them. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Row Security Policies (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html7+ million Postgres tables (recent talk by Kailash Nadh) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhi5Q_wL9i0Row Level Security guide (Supabase docs) https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-securitycurrent_setting function https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-admin.html#id-1.5.8.34.3.6.2.2.1.1.1.1Our slow count episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/slow-countRLS Performance a...

2024-12-2040 min

Sustain Episode 257: Kailash Nadh and Zerodha's FLOSS/Fund and funding.jsonGuest Kailash Nadh Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer sits down with Kailash Nath, CTO of Zerodha, to delve into the dynamics of funding and sustaining open-source projects. They explore the establishment of Zerodha's FLOSS/Fund, which allocates a million dollars annually to support pivotal open source projects and discuss the development of the funding.json format to streamline grant applications. The conversation also covers the challenges of creating such funds, including regulatory hurdles, and aims to make financial assistance globally accessible...

2024-11-2236 min

Code to Culture Are algorithms TRICKING you?! ft. Nithin Kamath & Kailash Nadh | FCTC | EP4 | Part 2Welcome to From Code to Culture, a podcast by UnboxingBLR.This is From Code to Culture’s second episode featuring Nithin Kamath & Kailash Nadh; CEO & co-founder, and CTO at Zerodha, respectively. Nithin Kamath deep dives into Zerodha’s journey - from being a virtually unknown broking firm in 2010 to commanding global attention as one of India’s most trusted trading platforms with a net valuation of $3.6 billion. Watch Nithin’s journey developing a simple pricing model for beginner traders, investing in 100+ startups through Rainmatter Foundation, empowering traders and democratising investing through their company ethos.

2024-11-191h 02

Code to Culture Don't make THESE money mistakes ft. Nithin Kamath & Kailash Nadh | FCTC | EP4 | Part 1Welcome to From Code to Culture, a podcast by UnboxingBLR.This is From Code to Culture’s second episode featuring Nithin Kamath & Kailash Nadh; CEO & co-founder, and CTO at Zerodha, respectively. Nithin Kamath deep dives into Zerodha’s journey - from being a virtually unknown broking firm in 2010 to commanding global attention as one of India’s most trusted trading platforms with a net valuation of $3.6 billion. Watch Nithin’s journey developing a simple pricing model for beginner traders, investing in 100+ startups through Rainmatter Foundation, empowering traders and democratising investing through their company ethos.

2024-11-1256 min

All Things Policy Long-term lessons from global tech outageIn July 2024, what is being called the biggest global tech outage was caused not by a malicious actor but a cybersecurity company. A mere 40 KB faulty update pushed by CrowdStrike caused millions of devices running Windows operating system to crash. As the dust settles down, it becomes only timely to discuss the long-term lessons from the tech outage. In this episode of All Things Policy, Lokendra engages in a conversation with Dr Kailash Nadh (CTO of Zerodha) to distill the key lessons. They also discuss Kailash’s ideas on software as a discipline and his thoughts on open source so...

2024-10-1040 min

Two by Two (Private)6. Is the golden era of the (software) engineer over?Software engineering careers used to be a ladder. You studied for 4 years, got a job as a fresher, and could virtually take for granted a steady career filled with learning opportunities, salary hikes, and role promotions. In fact being an engineer was so cool that we mocked MBAs and MBA-types – “suits” – for their desperation to find that elusive technical co-founder. The one who would translate an idea (common) into code and products.Except, that’s increasingly not true.An NYT story published earlier this week put it best.“I have a pretty good s...

2024-08-221h 33

CRED curious The paradox of A.I. ft. Kailash NadhA discussion that might just reshape how you view tomorrow. Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha, joins Kunal in a discussion about the future of humanity: from A.I.’s inevitable impact, the ethics of parenthood, why life goals are irrelevant in a universe that prefers chance, and more.

2024-05-081h 02

Sustain Episode 153: Kailash Nadh and the FOSS United FoundationGuest Kailash Nadh Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We’re super excited to have as our guest today, Kailash Nadh. In 2020, he co-founded the FOSS United Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the FOSS ecosystem in India, where he serves as director. He also has been the CTO of Zerodha, India’s largest stock broking firm for the last decade. Today, our conversations with Kailash will take through the FOSS...

2023-02-1042 min $Scaler Pod - The Software Engineer\'s Podcast$

Scaler Pod - The Software Engineer's Podcast SCALER POD 05 ft. Kailash Nadh, CTO Zerodha | Side Projects, Hacker Culture and Scaling with SenseDr. Kailash Nadh, Zerodha's CTO is famous for his countless side projects on his GitHub, his blog that thousands of software engineers follow, and for building the tech infra at Zerodha that is run by only 35 engineers but supports over 1 crore traders! Let's talk with him about hacker culture, working on open source projects, and how to scale up tech and tech teams with common sense. #Zerodha #Scaler #podcast #Entrepreneur #Tech Timeline: 00:00 Introduction 00:40 A day in the life of Kailash Nadh 02:55 Writing code as a CTO 04:25 How to react to...

2022-09-262h 13

Software Misadventures Kailash Nadh - On being an absurdist and building the tech team at Zerodha, India's largest stock broker - #18 Kailash is the CTO at Zerodha, the largest stock broker in India. In this conversation, we speak with him about absurdism - a philosophy that guides his personal and professional worldview. We discuss how he built Zerodha’s tech team, their team culture and how the team operates so efficiently while being so lean. We also discuss why Zerodha self-hosts all of their tech stack, what they look for when hiring engineers and how their systems scaled when the user base grew from 2 to 8 million in 18 months.

2022-02-251h 38

The Ashish Sinha Show Zerodha CTO, Kailash Nadh on building and scaling the Zerodha wayZerodha defies all standard norms of building a tech startup. While the world is going gaga over number of engineers, Zerodha builds and scales with..well just a handful of engineers. 33 member team powering the country’s largest stock brokerage platform! In this deep community cast, Zerodha's CTO, Kailash shares it all in conversation with Ashish Sinha. How has Zerodha evolved over time, from the v0 of the tech product to today? How do you think cos. Should really approach Engg? Right now, the mentality is to throw money at the problem, but what’s the eleg...

2022-01-0753 min

Software at Scale Software at Scale 37 - Building Zerodha with Kailash NadhKailash Nadh is the CTO of Zerodha, India’s largest retail stockbroker. Zerodha powers a large volume of stock trades - ~15-20% of India’s daily volume which is significantly more daily transactions than Robinhood.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsThe focus of this episode is the technology and mindset behind Zerodha - the key technology choices, challenges faced, and lessons learned while building the platform over several years. As described on the company’s tech blog, Zerodha has an unconventional approach to building software - open source centric, relatively few deadlines, an incessant focus on resolvi...

2021-11-1648 min

CX Conversations "How to make simple products in FinTech that customers love?" with Kailash Nadh, CTO @ZerodhaBuilding a FinTech product is challenging. Getting your customers to love that product is a completely different game! In this episode of CX Conversations, I talk with Kailash Nadh, CTO @Zerodha, about the art of making things simple in FinTech and how that affects customer experience. We dive into: - how to approach product development from the user's perspective? - how to use customer feedback for product improvement? - how to build the right team that embodies this sentiment? Don't miss this! Register here to get updates in...

2019-08-0926 min