While Ruchir Sharma was earning ₹36.5 lakh a year at 22, Nikhil Kamath was making just ₹5.4 lakh — working phones at a Bengaluru call center. The revelation came during a candid podcast where two of India’s top finance minds shared how differently their careers began.

Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath recalled his early 2000s job at a company called 24 bar 7, where he earned about ₹1,000 a month — or ₹12,000 a year — before eventually rising to a ₹5.4 lakh annual income. Advertisement

“Five years after that, I was earning $1,000 a month,” Kamath told Ruchir Sharma, who reacted with genuine surprise: “You started in the call center world? Fascinating!”

Sharma, who now runs Rockefeller International, shared that in 1996, Morgan Stanley offered him a $100,000 package — worth about ₹36.5 la

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