Imagine sitting in your office and suddenly having?cops come and raid it. As an employee, you are bound to panic, right? Something similar once happened with?Zerodha?employees, but there¡¯s a catch.?
In a recent revelation on the 'OnePlus Open Conversations' podcast,?Zerodha co-founder Nithin Kamath?shared a humorous yet emotionally charged incident from the early days of the company. Kamath recounted a prank he pulled off a decade ago in?2014, which involved fake cops raiding the Zerodha headquarters, leaving a lasting impact on the unsuspecting employees.??
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Kamath, who was recalling the incident with a touch of nostalgia, said, "I ran a prank in the office. I got these Kannada actors to raid our office as cops. We captured this whole thing... I knew back then that this was the place to be. I had these random ideas¡no one would have ever thought that a stockbroker would run a prank video of cops raiding, saying that ¡®your founder is a cheat and has run away'...I mean, the reaction in that video was just crazy. I mean, half our office was crying that day."
The prank involved the fake cops accusing Zerodha founders, Nithin and Nikhil, of forgery, creating an atmosphere of extreme stress and confusion among the employees. A video of the prank, posted by Kamath on social media in 2019, garnered significant attention, amassing 1.8 million views on YouTube.
The video opens with a message from Nithin Kamath: ¡°We carried out a fake police raid in our office to see how the team reacts to extreme stress and to have some fun, of course.¡±?
As the actors enter the office and sabotage the regular workflow, technicians are seen setting up cameras. The actors are armed with a fictitious high court order. The employees, who are clearly anxious and confused, fight against the intrusion as they attempt to comprehend the sudden raid.
Kamath,?in the podcast, emphasised the company's longstanding focus on content, citing their early blogging initiatives from the inception of Zerodha. "Right from Day 1, when we started Zerodha, we started blogging, and we knew that the superpower we had as a business was transparency," he remarked.
In addition, he discussed how the landscape of content consumption is evolving and pointed out the trend towards visual content. "From 2016 onwards, the efforts that we put into content started having a draining result. People stopped consuming traditional content, and you started seeing that change," Kamath explained. The disclosure made by the co-founder of Zerodha illuminates the company's dedication to openness as well as the friendships and fun times that have molded its workplace culture. Even though it caused some short-term inconvenience, the joke is still remembered as a memorable part of Zerodha's history. Since the humorous incident in 2014, the company has expanded greatly.??
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