ZERODHA ESOPS
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Nithin Kamath says he wouldn’t launch Zerodha in 2025. Here's why
Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath stated he wouldn’t launch a similar brokerage in today’s saturated market. Instead, he’d focus on niche offerings with fewer customers but stronger margins.
Zerodha to end zero-brokerage model; Unacademy lays off 250 employees
Online stock broker Zerodha will likely discontinue its zero-brokerage structure due to new Sebi rules. More on this in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Meesho undertakes third ESOP buyback worth $5.5 million
Meesho, a social commerce platform that’s looking to take on Amazon and Flipkart in India’s ecommerce space, has repurchased ESOPs worth $6 million so far with across-the-board participation.
Paytm staff, ex-employees convert Esops to shares worth Rs 182 crore
The development comes ahead of the Noida-based company’s planned initial public offering (IPO) slated for November.
Flipkart has plans to buy back ESOPs worth $125 million
Flipkart employees will have the option to liquidate their vested ESOPs. In 2018, when Walmart acquired Flipkart, it had reserved $500 million to buy back ESOPs from Flipkart’s staffers. The buyback had turned a few hundred Flipkart employees into millionaires. Flipkart employs over 15,000 full-time employees in India. ESOPs are a widely used retention tool. It allows employees to purchase the securities of the company at a predetermined price, within the defined exercise period.
ShareChat parent to buy back ESOPs worth $19 million
The ShareChat ESOP buyback plan comes a few months after the regional language social media platform raised $502 million at a valuation of $2.1 billion.
View: Can we have more Zerodhas, please?
Zerodha is proof that the old-style method of doing business—with bootstrapped funds, building a great product, letting word of mouth grow the business and focussing on customer value creation—still works.
Zerodha's profit more than doubled to Rs 1,000 crore in FY21, says Nithin Kamath
The company has recently been in the news after its board approved an enabling resolution to allow promoters of the bootstrapped startup to draw a salary of Rs 100 crore
Zerodha co-founders not drawing Rs 100 crore salaries: Nithin Kamath
Although the actual salary will be lower than the approved Rs 100 crore figure, it will still be higher than the norm, admits Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath.
How many zeros in Zerodha's top paycheques? Nine
With a Rs 100 crore salary each for founder Kamath brothers and director Seema Patil, bootstrapped startup sets a record
RuleZero raises Rs 10 crore in new round
Founded by Satish Mugulavalli and Srinivas Katta in 2019, RuleZero's platform manages ownership data, automates share issuance processes and provides mechanisms to track and certify cap tables of startups.
Paytm expands its ESOPs pool to 'largest among all Indian startups'
Paytm has added 242,904 shares to its existing ESOPs pool, expanding the employee stock options by nearly $62 million and strengthening its efforts to attract and retain talent.
Zetwerk buys back shares worth $8.3 million from employees, early investors
Zetwerk said it has seen strong growth in its business in the last two years, and has grown its employee base from 250 to 400 in the last 12 months.
Brokerage employees set for windfall bonuses, increments
Bonuses at some of India’s leading broking firms could be anywhere between six to nine months of salary (cost-to-company) and the increments could be in the range of 10-18%
Startups play Santa early for employees with a flurry of Esop buybacks
Employees — in some cases hit by pay cuts — got cash, and employers, a happy workplace as well as a retention tool in a job market that’s just revving up.
PharmEasy is buying back Esops worth $3 million
India’s startup ecosystem has seen a slew of Esop buybacks, from companies like Swiggy, Meesho, Unacademy, and Zerodha
Zerodha’s Rs 60-65 crore Esops buyback plan values firm at $1 billion
The quantity of shares an employee can sell will be based on performance.
India's stock market most active right now since 2007: Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath
Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath talks about the company's future and its self-certified $1 billion valuation and his take on the highly volatile capital markets.
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