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Arjun Agarwal

Arjun Agarwal

Founder and CEO of inaam, an Australian impact investing fintech platform for young investors; TEDx speaker and entrepreneur

Jul 23, 2026

4:03
What do you remember about that time?
4:06
I think the hardest part was I was very young, so I had to piece together what's actually happening, right? I'd grown up with a lot of privilege, fancy homes, fancy cars, helpers all around, and a lot of respect in the community as well, which helped me get into rooms I may not otherwise have been able to get into.
4:29
which I was very cognizant of and very well aware of that fact.
4:33
But it kind of almost was a full step change and a shift to what's happened here? Like, why aren't we in the same house? Why don't we have the same cars? And eventually, you know, my parents were...
4:48
quite open about it to explain it to me, but understanding that it really wasn't my father's fault, in essence, was probably the hardest thing to come to terms with.
5:00
And something I only came to terms with after he passed, which is not the best time to have come to terms with it, because I kind of held him responsible for a lot of that all the time.
5:11
And the funniest part is whilst he was the biggest spender, it wasn't as if he was spending on sometimes vanity metrics, but those vanity metrics are very calculated ones.

11 MINS LATER

16:39
So why a flat $10 instead of a percentage of what people invest like everyone else?

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