Making investing easy with Vasanth, Rohan and Anugrah of smallcase

The Rainmatter Podcast

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