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  • Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Dharma, Failure & The Middle Path | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

    Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Dharma, Failure & The Middle Path | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF
    Mar 25 2026
    Rishi Sunak says patience is a bigger competitive advantage than speed, that every decision that reaches a leader is 50-50 by definition because if it weren't someone else would have made it, that the long term is just a succession of short terms you either survived or got kicked out of, and that the thing he wishes he'd done more of in his career is read fiction — because non-fiction tells you what to do and how to do it but fiction teaches you why and gives you a deeper understanding of people.Akshata Murty says her identity was never her father's name or her husband's title, that the middle path between stoicism and epicureanism is where the answer almost always lives, and that the validation she chases is impact — not position, not wealth, not the approval of people who've already decided who she is.First couple's episode we've ever done, and it went places none of us expected.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction06:04 Foundery: India's consumer brand accelerator12:20 Storytelling as a leadership superpower18:05 Parents' pharmacy inspired political career24:04 Educating children in the AI era30:05 Leaning into human skills over AI36:17 How Rishi and Akshata decide differently42:10 Goldman Sachs to Prime Minister journey48:03 Patience as an underrated competitive advantage54:15 Entering politics: resilience, patience, service1:00:06 Staying unapologetically Indian in British politics1:06:51 Life inside 10 Downing Street1:12:20 AI sovereignty and global trade tensions1:18:32 De-globalisation and supply chain resilience1:24:38 Free trade, tariffs, and level playing fields1:31:17 Akshata's identity beyond famous family1:37:53 Validation through impact, not inheritance1:44:04 Finding balance between desire and austerity1:50:04 Being kind to yourself after failure1:56:42 Identity, heritage, and the living bridge2:03:03 Nostalgic Bangalore food and childhood memories2:09:05 Why young Indians should enter politics2:16:03 Education, financial literacy, and compounding2:22:04 Learning to learn in the AI age2:29:52 How Rishi and Akshata use AI daily2:37:09 Can AI truly be creative?2:44:06 Losing the Prime Ministership: lessons in dharma2:51:30 Poets versus politicians: who should we hear?2:58:17 Motivating young people to shape policyNikhil KamathCo-founder of Zerodha and GruhasHost of 'WTF is' & 'People By WTF' PodcastTwitter: https://x.com/nikhilkamathcio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikhilkamathcioLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilkamathcio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nikhilkamathcioRishi SunakYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rishisunakX: https://x.com/RishiSunak?s=20Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rishisunakmpFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rishisunakAkshata MurtyYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@akshataonlineX: https://x.com/anmurtyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rishisunakmpFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rishisunakWatch on Spotifyhttps://tinyurl.com/4nsm4eznhttps://tinyurl.com/yme92c59https://tinyurl.com/4tjua4th#WTFiswithnikhilkamath#PeopleByWTF#WTFOnline
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  • Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty : Marriage, Power & Losing All In Public | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

    Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty : Marriage, Power & Losing All In Public | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF
    Mar 23 2026

    Rishi Sunak says he could not function without his marriage, that losing the most public job in the world taught him that the Gita was right about focusing on dharma and not outcomes, and that the blank canvas at 45 is more exciting than the track that got him there. Akshata Murty says she’s not stuck on being her father’s daughter or her husband’s wife, she is clear on who she is than any title ever made her and the answer to most things lives in balance, somewhere between stoicism and epicureanism. First couple's episode. Full conversation drops soon.


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    #rishisunak Former PM of the UK

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    #akshatamurty Businesswoman and Philanthropist

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  • I can't believe I said this

    I can't believe I said this
    Mar 23 2026

    One of them says the Gita's line on duty over outcomes is what got him through the most public failure of his life. The other says her identity has never been her father's name or her husband's title. They've been together 20 years and still argue about ice cream flavours. First couple's episode we've ever done.


    #nikhilkamath Co-founder of Zerodha and Gruhas

    Host of 'WTF is' & 'People By WTF' Podcast

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  • Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

    Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF
    Mar 2 2026

    I sat down with Chamath Palihapitiya. He sold a company to Nvidia for $20 billion, woke up the next morning, saw $13 billion hit the account, and felt nothing. This is a guy who grew up in a home with alcoholism and abuse, immigrated to Canada with nothing, lost billions on SPACs, rebuilt, and now says the whole game is exactly that — a game. We got into the uncomfortable stuff: why pain is the single best predictor of entrepreneurial success, why investing is never a team sport and anyone who says otherwise is losing money, and why Bitcoin has a structural flaw that will permanently cap its ceiling. Chamath makes the case that Trump is the most effective political athlete America has ever seen, that some form of socialism is probably inevitable if we don't fix student debt and housing, and that his next obsession is building the machine that makes the machine — a software factory for the AI era.


    00:00 Introduction

    06:09 Chamath’s Painful Childhood & Hunger

    11:16 What Actually Matters Beyond Success

    17:06 Business as a Game, Not Life

    22:04 The Machine That Makes Machines

    29:11 Trump, Trade & America’s Political Reset

    37:30 Investing Lessons: Conviction Over Consensus

    43:12 Bitcoin’s Structural Flaws & Limitations

    49:56 The Conceptual Stack for AI Investing

    55:12 AI Hype, Valuations & Catastrophising

    58:26 Socialism’s Inevitable Rise & Boundary Fixes

    1:03:48 Building Sovereign Social Media from India


    #nikhilkamath Co-founder of Zerodha and Gruhas

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  • Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | Ep. 19 Trailer | People by WTF

    Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | Ep. 19 Trailer | People by WTF
    Feb 28 2026

    Chamath Palihapitiya has made and lost billions. He backed Tesla, Bitcoin, and the Golden State Warriors when everyone told him he was insane. Now he's building what he calls a software factory — the machine that makes the machine. We talked about why pain is a prerequisite for scale, why socialism might be closer than any capitalist wants to admit, and why none of the metrics society uses to measure success actually mean anything. This was not a polished conversation.


    Chamath Palihapitiya has made and lost billions. He backed Tesla, Bitcoin, and the Golden State Warriors when everyone told him he was insane. Now he's building what he calls a software factory — the machine that makes the machine. We talked about why pain is a prerequisite for scale, why socialism might be closer than any capitalist wants to admit, and why none of the metrics society uses to measure success actually mean anything. This was not a polished conversation.


    #nikhilkamath Co-founder of Zerodha and Gruhas

    Host of 'WTF is' & 'People By WTF' Podcast

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    #chamathpalihapitiya

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  • The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn't Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

    The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn't Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF
    Feb 24 2026

    I sat down with Dario Amodei in Bangalore. He built Claude, but he started as a biologist looking for a tool to cure disease. Today, he's at the helm of an AI revolution that he compares to a tsunami society is actively ignoring. We got into the heavy stuff: why Anthropic secretly withheld a working model before ChatGPT existed, whether AI is on the verge of consciousness, and if outsourcing our thinking is going to make humans measurably stupider. Dario makes the case that coding is a dying skill, critical thinking is our last real edge, and the absurd concentration of power in AI right now is a massive problem—even though he’s one of the people holding it.


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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Introduction

    06:13 Scaling laws explained simply

    13:27 Trust, humility, and corporate motives

    22:44 Using Claude personally, AI knowing you

    31:03 Rich people criticizing their own system

    37:05 India's role and IT partnerships

    44:15 Will AI surpass humans at everything

    50:17 Career advice for young Indians

    56:38 Open source vs closed AI models

    1:02:40 Biotech as the next big bet
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  • Dario Amodei: The Tsunami Nobody's Preparing For | Nikhil Kamath | Ep. 18 Trailer | People by WTF

    Dario Amodei: The Tsunami Nobody's Preparing For | Nikhil Kamath | Ep. 18 Trailer | People by WTF
    Feb 24 2026
    Dario Amodei runs a company valued at tens of billions of dollars, building the very AI systems he warns could reshape everything. So I asked him directly: isn't this a bit like rich people saying capitalism is bad? His answer surprised me. We went deep on the economics, the geopolitics, the safety debate, and why the people building AI might actually be the most paranoid about it. A long, honest, no-script conversation about the technology that's about to change all of our lives.#nikhilkamath Co-founder of Zerodha and GruhasHost of 'WTF is' & 'People By WTF' PodcastTwitter: https://x.com/nikhilka...Instagram: @nikhilkamathcio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.c...Facebook: @nikhilkamathcio #DarioamodeiLinkedIN- @dario-amodeiX - https://x.com/DarioAmodeiInstagram - @dario.amodei Watch 'WTF is' Podcast on Spotifyhttps://tinyurl.com/4n...Watch 'People by WTF' Podcast on Spotifyhttps://tinyurl.com/ym...Watch 'WTF Online' on Spotifyhttps://tinyurl.com/4t...#WTFiswithnikhilkamath #PeopleByWTF #WTFOnline #claude #claudeindia #podcast #anthropic #anthropicclaude #anthropicai #ai #aivideo #claude
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  • Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

    Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF
    Feb 13 2026
    I sat down with Yuval Noah Harari at the World Economic Forum in Davos and we ended up covering everything from why Christianity's core story is essentially "you are loved by an omnipotent God" to why Greenland might just be the world's most expensive real estate play. He walked me through how algorithms were handed the job of managing public conversation and optimised for hate because hate drives engagement, how AI is about to become the new rabbi because it can read every religious text ever written, and why the friendship between Europe and America — built over generations — is being thrown away for a bit of ice. He also told me that the biggest political achievement in human history was governments spending more on healthcare than military for the first time — and that it's being deliberately destroyed.Footage courtesy: WEF | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | Source: • Davos 2026 Highlights | World Economic For... [00:00:18 - 00:00:29]#nikhilkamath Co-founder of Zerodha and Gruhas Host of 'WTF is' & 'People By WTF' PodcastTwitter: https://x.com/nikhilkamathcio/ Instagram: / nikhilkamathcioLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilkam... Facebook: / nikhilkamathcio #YuvalNoahHarari @YuvalNoahHarariX - https://x.com/harari_yuval Instagram - / yuval_noah_harari Youtube - / @yuvalnoahharari 00:00 Introduction01:31 History, change, and writing books03:57 Religion as humanity's most powerful fiction09:33 Geopolitics, power, and losing trust16:27 Greenland, tariffs, and negotiation tactics19:53 Democracy's self-correcting mechanism under threat28:19 AI taking over religion's authority33:44 Purpose, suffering, and controlling your mind39:59 Algorithms destroyed the public conversation48:02 No purpose, just understanding suffering55:06 Who actually runs the world today1:02:38 Nobody runs the world alone1:07:50 Can capitalism survive without human effort1:14:44 Venezuela, Iran, and rebuilding democracy1:21:11 Don't believe everything is just powerWatch 'WTF is' Podcast on Spotify https://tinyurl.com/4nsm4ezn Watch 'People by WTF' Podcast on Spotify https://tinyurl.com/yme92c59 Watch 'WTF Online' on Spotify https://tinyurl.com/4tjua4th #WTFiswithnikhilkamath #PeopleByWTF #WTFOnline
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