Indian tech billionaire and Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath has sparked a wave of criticism online after remarking that a 25-year-old pursuing an MBA must be “some kind of an idiot”. The comment, widely circulated on social media, has not been received well by many. Among those responding is 27-year-old Anaheez Patel, an MBA candidate at NYU Stern School of Business.

Patel, who previously worked with Vogue India , posted a video on Instagram addressing Kamath’s statement head-on. “How someone with that social cachet and influence can trash the pursuit of higher education in a country like India is beyond me,” she says in the video.

She continues, “I’m 27 and getting my MBA at NYU Stern. Nikhil, the world isn’t built on exceptions. For every outlier who made it without a degree, there

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