New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- Zerodha co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath responded to a query on Reddit about what makes the brokerage different, how it has managed to remain profitable, and why it has avoided going public - offering a masterclass in patience, frugality, and clarity of purpose.

In a detailed post, Nithin Kamath shared a deeply insightful and candid account of the company's origins - one that is poles apart from today's typical VC-fueled growth stories.

Kamath highlighted that Zerodha's success was not an overnight achievement but the result of decades of persistence.

"We have spent 15 years getting here, and maybe another 10 years before Zerodha, I was involved in the markets in some form. So, 25 years in all. Things in busines...