India, Oct. 28 -- Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath recently shared advice for young people entering the artificial intelligence (AI) era, saying he would focus on building applications and services using emerging technologies if he were 17 today.

Speaking at the NDTV World Summit 2026, Kamath said AI and the internet have made education more accessible, significantly changing the value of a formal college degree. Kamath, who dropped out of conventional education himself, said young people today have an advantage over previous generations because they can access learning resources online and use AI tools to understand almost any subject.

"To be fair, the one big advantage for a 17-year-old today versus 20 years ago, I think education has...