Thanks for tuning to episode 3. In this episode, Nithin caught up with Vasanth Kamath, Anugrah Shrivastava, and Rohan Gupta, the founders of smallcase.  

In this freewheeling conversation Vasanth, Anugrah, and Rohan talk about:   

0:00 Introduction and Individual backgrounds

9:20 The chronology of the smallcase story

12:05 What's smallcase

13:13 The Rainmatter side of the smallcase story

15:10 The initial days of building smallcase

25:57 Navigating the technological challenges of integrating with different brokers

29:20 Onboarding older brokers

35:06 Growth hack: Getting customers to tag other brokers on tweets asking for smallcases  

36:50 Deciding on broking partners

38:40 smallcase Publisher - a platform for advisors

42:42 Building Publisher

43:59 Breakup of smallcase transaction across platforms

46:14 smallcase Gateway

51:50 Tickertape

58:20 Being a broker on their own vs deciding not to

1:01:20 Thinking about now in the light of billion-dollar valuations ascribed to brokers

1:02:40 Going global 1:05 .21 Direct indexing vs ETF

1:10 .15 Learnings from Smallcase journey

1:15:27 What next  

If you guys want to explore all the awesome things that smallcase is building:  

Tickertape

smallcase Publisher

smallcase Gateway