EP25: Building an investing ecosystem w/Vivek Bajaj

In this episode, I invited Vivek Bajaj - Founder & CEO of StockEdge and Elearnmarkets, two platforms that are empowering retail investors in India.

If you look at the statistics, a lot of retail investors LOSE money in the stock markets. They get their fingers burnt, and they never look back at the stock markets as a medium to generate wealth. Vivek Bajaj & his team are changing the game for these investors.

We spoke about a range of topics in this episode like:

(00:00) Introduction

(04:57) Talking about Vivek’s journey, how a seed of experimenting with life was implanted in his mind at a very early age, how he continues to challenge his limits & what he thinks is the greatest skill a person can have [and why professional courses might be a scam!]

(12:15) The impact that IIM Indore had on Vivek’s personality & mindset and what makes the IITs/IIMs of the world, breeding grounds of great minds

(17:10) Talking about how Vivek executed the business plans he had created while he was at IIM & why he joined the commodity segment in JM Financial after completing his MBA

(19:08) Why Vivek started his own commodity trading business & talking about some of the unique experiences he had

(20:40) What pulled Vivek towards the stock markets? [Marwadi genetics?]

(22:45) What happened after Vivek made his first BIG trade in the commodity markets & how things started to scale from that moment

(24:20) Why Vivek started to pivot from the commodity/currency trading business & how Michael Bloomberg inspired him to create a platform for retail investors

(27:52) The idea behind StockEdge & Elearnmarkets? How Vivek & his team plan to capture the entire investing & trading ecosystem

(34:40) Talking about the pricing plans and the value addition – how retail investors can benefit from access to these platforms

(39:00) The vision behind the ecosystem – to develop people to become independent, not to retain them endlessly

(40:00) Talking about some of the common mistakes that retail investors make in the stock market

(43:36) Who inspires Vivek? [I really like the answer to this one!]

(46:16) What is the next challenge that he is taking on?

(47:15) Metaverse: good or bad for humanity? [Vivek suggested the war between Ukraine <> Russia could’ve been done on the Metaverse :P]

(51:00) Vivek’s key learnings from his journey so far

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