Why Rich People Don’t Keep 100% Ownership 💰

13 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Paridhi Dhingra explains that the desire to retain 100% ownership of one’s assets is a common reason why many people remain poor. She argues that wealthy individuals achieve and maintain wealth by spreading ownership across multiple businesses and collaborating with various partners, taking smaller equity stakes (e.g., 5%, 2%, 10%) while still earning substantial income. The speaker highlights that those who retain higher percentages typically handle the day‑to‑day operations and heavy work, whereas the rich often do the minimum necessary to secure a good share of profits. As a concrete illustration, she cites Deepinder Goyal, co‑founder of Zomato, who now holds only about 4% of the company’s shares—meaning roughly 95‑96% of his equity has been given away—yet he remains a billionaire.

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A poor person says, I want 100% of what I own, but that's why that person is not getting rich. If you look at rich people, they will collaborate on multiple businesses, multiple sources of income with multiple people in life. 5% here, 2% here, 10% there, and that's how they make multiple sources of income by collaborating with multiple people. But somebody else is keeping a higher percentage because they are doing the operations, they are doing the hard work. These people are doing the minimum work which they can, and as a result of that, they get a good percentage of that. Deepinder Goyal, who's the founder of— one of the co-founders of Zomato, right now owns only 4-point-something percentage of Zomato stocks, which means approximately 95-96% of his stocks is given away. Doesn't belong to him today. He's still a millionaire. He's still a billionaire.