A software program engineer from Bengaluru took to X (previously Twitter) to share a selfie he clicked with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath in Goa.
Nikhil Kamath (R) posed for a selfie with an engineer in Goa. (X/@PuriSid)
“Goa >> everywhere else. Ran into the OG Bangalore boy Nikhil Kamath,” Sid Puri stated in a put up on Sunday. Kamath, 38, was dressed casually, in a sleeveless black t-shirt. He put his hand across the engineer and smiled for the {photograph}.
The put up piqued the curiosity of a number of different customers who dropped feedback on the put up.
Puri, responding to a query, stated he met the Zerodha billionaire at a preferred cafe in Goa’s Assagao.
By the way, Puri is similar one that bumped into Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the streets of San Francisco in September 2023.
“Go to SF they stated, nobody ready me to simply run into Sundar Pichai on the road,” Puri had written on X final yr, sharing his picture with the Indian-origin tech chief.
Pichai was dressed casually, in a pair of denims and a jacket.
‘Tech CEO bingo’
When a consumer reminder Puri about his encounter with Pichai a yr in the past and jokingly requested if his subsequent assembly can be with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he stated, “I’m playing tech CEO bingo, not world leader bingo.”
“Chances of Sid bumping into celebrities should be a tradable event on prediction marketplaces,” one other consumer stated.
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Nikhil Kamath, with a internet value of $3.1 billion, is likely one of the youngest billionaires in India. He’s additionally one of many nation’s youngest philanthropists, based on Hurun India Philanthrophy checklist 2024. He donated ₹120 crore to the Rainmatter Basis. Final yr, he and his elder brother Nithin Kamath made it to the Hurun checklist after they donated ₹110 crore to coping with local weather change and environmental sustainability.