People by WTF

By Nikhil Kamath

People by WTF is a series where Nikhil Kamath has a conversation with personalities who stand out in their industries around the world.

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The $120 Billion Man: Poverty, Power & Why Jobs Fix Everything | Ajay Banga x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

April 21, 2026 01 hr 23 min 57 secs

Ajay Banga took Mastercard from a $30 billion company to $360 billion in a decade, was the frontrunner to run Citibank''s quarter of a million people, quit to become CEO of a company with 4,000 — and ...Read more

Ajay Banga x Nikhil Kamath | Ep. Trailer | People by WTF

April 18, 2026 01 min 38 secs

Ajay Banga took Mastercard from a $30 billion company to $360 billion, left when he was the frontrunner to run Citibank''s 250,000 people, and now controls $120 billion a year as the President of the ...Read more

Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Dharma, Failure & The Middle Path | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

March 25, 2026 03 hr 02 min 25 secs

Rishi Sunak says patience is a bigger competitive advantage than speed, that every decision that reaches a leader is 50-50 by definition because if it weren''t someone else would have made it, that th ...Read more

Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty : Marriage, Power & Losing All In Public | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

March 23, 2026 01 min 37 secs

Rishi Sunak says he could not function without his marriage, that losing the most public job in the world taught him that the Gita was right about focusing on dharma and not outcomes, and that the bla ...Read more

I can''t believe I said this

March 23, 2026 00 min 24 secs

One of them says the Gita''s line on duty over outcomes is what got him through the most public failure of his life. The other says her identity has never been her father''s name or her husband''s tit ...Read more

Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

March 2, 2026 01 hr 10 min 30 secs

I sat down with Chamath Palihapitiya. He sold a company to Nvidia for $20 billion, woke up the next morning, saw $13 billion hit the account, and felt nothing. This is a guy who grew up in a home with ...Read more

Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | Ep. 19 Trailer | People by WTF

February 28, 2026 01 min 44 secs

Chamath Palihapitiya has made and lost billions. He backed Tesla, Bitcoin, and the Golden State Warriors when everyone told him he was insane. Now he''s building what he calls a software factory — the ...Read more

The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn''t Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

February 24, 2026 01 hr 08 min 34 secs

I sat down with Dario Amodei in Bangalore. He built Claude, but he started as a biologist looking for a tool to cure disease. Today, he''s at the helm of an AI revolution that he compares to a tsunam ...Read more

Dario Amodei: The Tsunami Nobody''s Preparing For | Nikhil Kamath | Ep. 18 Trailer | People by WTF

February 24, 2026 01 min 05 secs

Dario Amodei runs a company valued at tens of billions of dollars, building the very AI systems he warns could reshape everything. So I asked him directly: isn''t this a bit like rich people saying ca ...Read more

Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn''t Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

February 13, 2026 01 hr 23 min 50 secs

I sat down with Yuval Noah Harari at the World Economic Forum in Davos and we ended up covering everything from why Christianity''s core story is essentially "you are loved by an omnipotent God" to wh ...Read more

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