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this luxury u.s. residents near the indian capital of delhi is being prepared to host one of the most anticipated weddings of the year. the alliance of tunes wealthy families in the textile industry before nearly a 1006 guests. and now let's dance in honor of the young prince who is getting married. the bridegroom is money garland is an austin taisha symbol of power and prosperity every new throw is the guest of honor. he has no qualms about flashing his cash the young self-made millionaire as the bride's cousin the self described serial entrepreneur has made a very substantial donation to the couple. different. a lot of
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nagano me yeah he did a lot of things i know him and i you know yeah definitely i'm still proud of that i . haven't distributes under loads of cash he's 22 years old and claims to earn nearly a 1000000 euros a month and spends 2 thirds of the year travelling abroad but he wouldn't have missed this wedding for anything i don't lose touch with the language i was brought up in but when i grew up that year that's what they say doesn't matter how successful you get get don't forget where you came for investing is mostly gone for a long time used at least a week with 5 or 6 publishers and it means a lot it's a very excessive over the top 5 so yeah i look forward to having in the big fat indian but it's the deficit thing jeff fischel. with one foot in the culture of tradition and the other in the culture of excess evan has a taste for parties luxury and money he embodies the success of a young generation of indian businessmen eager to get rich they've been called the
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new maharajah's members of an expanding class of moneyed elite who unlike older generations of discreet tycoons enjoy flaunting their wealth. and. since 2015 india has ranked 3rd behind the u.s. and china among countries with the most billionaires following a spur to economic growth from 2003 or 4 times more indian billionaires today than there were 25 years ago. both presidents to us whose new chain mail rooms rack up. while hundreds of millions of indians continue to live in extreme poverty the signs of leading family businesses are living large in train for those that you know nom already sister you are trying to get into the family business we're expected to. go thompson honey i was given a 1000000000 dollar textile. empire by his father in
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a decade his fortune has multiplied 10 fold. separate wishes and caviar dreams that. indian billionaires have a penchant for expensive talks. spend a little $100.00. that's more than $2000000000.00 rupees and it's not just lavish spending there seems to be a deeply entrenched culture of tax evasion. that gets lost boy. b.j. manya left india in 2016 to escape charges of fraud and money laundering. we met him in britain. how come that you don't go home for facebook justice up your country. life or that. there are stories of upward mobility.
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was born a dollar to the lowest hindu caste known as the untouchables face discrimination exclusion and abject poverty but today she runs a multi-million dollar company in mumbai. the company that can sit at slaves as it were is i'm glad i fought to make history this woman i'll say that by giving up now because people. who are the entrepreneurs in india's burgeoning ranks of billionaires one of their secrets for months we investigated the elite circle of the new maharajah's and mahtani. in the suburbs of delhi a gated community would secure grounds and private guards for the wealthy. on the terrace of his parents' home we meet up with the young tech entrepreneur of a new threat. the luxury duplex has
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a commanding view of the capital you haven't lived here with his mother and father are a family of 6 a religious community with a reputation for a strong work ethic and business acumen. his father is also an entrepreneur who made his fortune in the fashion and textile industry evan chose early on to follow in his footsteps but in a different field at the age of 12 you divine is just 1st smartphone app after high school he pursued a career in the field of startups. has a goal set aside for myself by 21 i want to be here 1000000 a month which i'm pretty close my 23rd i want to be at a 1000000 a week and my 25000000 a day. the aspires to become a billionaire and he's not shy about displaying the success of his achievements so far. forever and all that glitters is gold he sees all these acquisitions
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as investments. i got and it's i i love gold and black these are 2 of my colors which i really like so i even i got this solid gold i phone 7 made because i'm always on the phone i paid 10000 pounds for this but want to sell it was probably going to sell for a lot more than 10000 in a couple years because it's just an awesome. reptile skin is another one of his weaknesses with his signature a glint of gold of course. that's all by pop it's got a legal opinion to work by probably going to jail for this but i mean pretty sure nobody really cares and there's a lot of people thought it was all in the open so here in this bag is about $8000.00 but it's it's the thing is it doesn't lose its value i could sell it back again probably would sell for a lot more especially because my initials on it. arrival at the headquarters of the family business home to the young man's office evan secret to success. yes the
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surge in on demand apps and the cheap cost of labor in india he has a team of computer specialists in the basement of the building all specializing in the development of mobile applications this morning he's focused on improving a new project. so what we're trying to do is we're trying to add new features so we already got a new set up in the way you want to make it go i think you could use it was it conceivable fines and fees which is a possible thing can you give an estimate of what i mean we take to build this i would. bottle pop is designed for partying urban youth. street tables at night it's nice if somebody wants to call out with your friends and they want to have a table really gave themselves give us that we see you want to they tend to spend money they sample if you book a table with a clip of but. to rapidly grow his revenue ever and also buys ideas from
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others he's bought shares in several dozens of startups benefiting from their profits and watching his money grow. my $90000.00 that i invested is what now at $2000000.00 in that company so that's how i look at it and that's that that's a 20 it's a ton of stuff getting like. here nerd it is neck for business from his father a fashion industry entrepreneur. he provided evan with an initial investment to start him off this workshop produces clothing for american ready to wear brands. that we were skeptical at 1st evan's father is now amazed by his son's achievements getting it but we're going to get about it at. that facility that is when it gets you know you don't know what to do but he on his own kid knows that he has it even like. what i want. to while his
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father is delighted by his accent is his son's spending habits are a different matter religion and tradition are important to this family would you put that but it doesn't get old enough to. broaden quite funny but they're. pretty i haven't got that much that they're going to be a part of the best you're going to get a very good out of and it's a fine that you had and what it is that you want to get. pretty desperate for a bit of fun the other day that the other day you know it you know it just let us put it like that. traditions will have to wait evan is organizing his trips to europe in the united states where he plans to indulge in a glamorous lifestyle. and yes. the indian nouveau riche take their cue from the dazzling splendor once reserved for the country's feudal princes the maharajah's wealth was measured by the splendor of their palaces. today the sentence of the
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rajput dynasty still own vast estates in raw just on. one of the most beautiful palaces belongs to the i.o.c. is our family cousins of the. poor the allah says ours have ruled over these lands for 3 centuries now they are seeking new ways to fund their princely lifestyle. but all of the princes in the palace today so we're raising the flag. which say they're basically. in there just get the breakfast. 32 year old abi manu is the titular prince and head of the family his day begins with silverware and waiters in uniform today he's breakfasting at the foot of his bed with his younger brother. if i go down to that very 1st and then when he's
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coming to meet you he saw what was happening and. i feel your 1st me should be absolutely. only people you want to be with so they didn't you can plan your whole day what to do and when to do and how to do it. i'll be my news father transform the palace into a hotel 15 years ago and trusting its management to his oldest son. you studied management and some of the country's biggest talents hotels he's very demanding. i usually change my rooms whenever i come here stay in a different room every time i come i believe. ground is used to it when people come to. feel they should live those 2 days of their life and how i live. so that if you see the palace everyone was absolutely
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different and showcases my life and my style and my passion for whatever i do. the palace hotel offers a vacation fit for a maharajah. but maintaining the 17th century palace costs a fortune especially since its owner wants only the best. this is the main bit about all of the palace and this is where people who come and meet my grandfather and you see all of them out there in paintings. reviews in about 14000 pieces of gold leaf. and i ran away to school back to its glory and it took me about a year to finish this job. the gold leaf alone costs tens of thousands of euros to pay these vast bills and to set his palace apart from those run his hotels
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by other aristocratic families on you had a novel idea. once a year he hosts an electronic music festival at his palace this morning several 100 people are at work the concerts begin in less than 24 hours in different parts of the palace this is the. rich magic is going to happen. what are you doing with the. books you get in here and i. the idea came during drinks with a friend and mick jagger. we were having a drink together with bob you mean when you said that you know his father. just recently gifted both the sons the main palace. and. say you say oh you should do a festival there. $3000.00 music fans will be descending on the palace for the
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festival most of them young hipsters from the capital tickets cost more than $100.00 euros by a local standards a hefty price for entertainment. 710. and you have the palace right there. the festival's reputation extends beyond india's borders for this 3rd edition some 40 deejays answered the prince's call sound of arrived from all over the world these 2 experimental musicians are from luxembourg. the festival is just getting started we come across some french people in the crowd dazzled by abbey monuments hospitality. if you did you know the prince before.
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you know not at all that's the prince i'm thrilled so he owns the space it's magical it's based the decoration and then there's the desert all around it's magnificent. good looks at the feet. and. the princes aim is to get people talking about us is our today has gone has been achieved music gives me and i basically when it's being an. opera it's users getting proper had obviously comes along with the villages where it gets to nice to get off. the musically inclined prince has another project in the works he wants to
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start a festival of traditional music in another of his family's palaces. in the early 20th century india's princes were among the wealthiest people in the world today some of their descendants affluence has been eclipsed by the self-made fortunes of individuals who started with nothing. in this village a 10 hour drive from mumbai most people live from the land trapped in endemic poverty. but it's the starting point of a real life ranks to riches story. carpenter was born here today she's the c.e.o. of a multi-million dollar metal engineering company her father was a police officer and her family owned no land this is the home. made us the money is this is a house that was born in. the us you got it you see you're going to we kept it as
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it is use me i want to be able to remember where i came from in john's you to remind me of my progress from birth to today my mother. returned to the village may draw a crowd but has a low caste and doll it compound i saw you grew up here facing property discrimination and. you will notice that you see was the dividing line of the village you those who lived on that side were people from superior castes. and on this side with a lot of caste they had a touchable. in india dominates or at the bottom of the caste system known as untouchables and considered impure their i shunned the community often forced to earn their living with unpleasant and dangerous work people said my grandfather used to go and work for people of higher castes and when we were little we would
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follow him. but we never entered the homes of these people we were left outside and it well defined area so i didn't know what we were forbidden from touching with food and when we with this tea they gave us glasses that only we used that as. a gesture. i mean. parno regularly returns to or village to organize charity events this morning she's inaugurating a temporary medical facility that offers free i checkups and classes. that are. how are you my right eye is weak these closest should help. this study is that goes. through the but then the delivery not to do it it's a 2 hour walk to reach the nearest hospital so villagers are grateful for such medical assistance. and they've got to go to me but i've seen public t.v.
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show sato so i know very well the problems that these people face that they so as soon as i have free time i do what i consider a deity but i try to help them to help my community be orchestrated by examinations health checks and blood tests content has provided a range of services for the villagers. lunch is served in a tent put up for the occasion there's a festival there in the village whenever a crowd by now returns home she helps serve the meals herself. so raja's story is one of a young girl who beat the odds married off at the age of 12 she moved to a slum where she was abused by her husband and his family her father rescued her but when she returned to her village she was ostracised by the stigma of divorce when you. were younger but maybe the people couldn't understand that i was back still no they find it hard to understand that it woman is separated from her husband. they were remiss at the time they shunned me that was when i tried to
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commit suicide bus while doing poison. the disability would always do that i changed i was determined to prove that i was worth something that it was the beginning of my fight the beginning of my journey. that they're having. and there are my dad is there are i had passed. i think about it. at the age of 16 carbonara returned to mom buying to try to earn a living with the skills she learned as a seamstress she found a job in a garment factory and worked as a tailor with a government loan she opened her own business and then began investing in real estate she bought a piece of land in the north of the city which she resold at a premium price taking advantage of soaring property prices. that was when
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i did everything i had me a woman and untouchable as well it was historic because my whole life the rest of society has treated people from my cust like slaves. of course i had to fight but i'm happy because i've kind of managed to make history go by. carpenter has courage and determination helped drover come prejudice and exclusion but she's never forgotten where she came from. even as a successful real estate entrepreneur and the head of a profitable company compound i prefers modesty to an ostentatious show wealth she pursues her business interests from this unassuming office in downtown mumbai. a little good but for now the idea is to develop a hotel with $105.00 rooms but it won't be 5 stones the rooms are too small for it to be a lecture it's palace in order just off work we need to put 4500000 euros on the
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table and here's a look at the look at. catherine i works with her daughter sima a graduate of a london university the 30 year old is following in her mother's footsteps so who can you feel like a big on the up. the outside will be exposed dome. to be part of business there goes in addition to a business center we want to launch a start up cafe people will be able to share ideas while having a child or a coffee with the bit of. cmos are on just developing this building in central mumbai part of her mother's real estate empire the property is worth the equivalent of 120000000 euros. i think you have a plus point in that i'll believe that this is a don't. do station that we have to the other own so i think it's amazing i
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think people love the city you know i didn't enjoy the evenings simos career path was smoothed by her mother's success but she appreciates the sacrifices her mother had to make to get where she is today. i think she never heard me and my brothers in that way for what they should be saying. what is she going through feel of this one of the happy happy that we go. on board always she has space to achieve this and to big ben though people like you are meant to be a film or interview became good on that oh no different than before school book would seem. despite the multi-million dollar projects that they manage the family has not locked itself away in an ivory tower rather than a grand department in or up market neighborhood the family lives in this building in a northern by suburb. so rogers humble origins make her an exception
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among the indian nouveau riche. and her fortune can't match the assets of the country's high flying billionaires who love nothing more than a bit of fun in the sun. white sandy beaches. is lined with coconut trees go up on india's west coast is a popular weekend playground for big city billionaires. but beautiful though they may be the beaches are too crowded for the likes of quantum singh honea i feel weak over my support for. this one thing. that would have a lot i got. at the helm of a leading clothing brand. as one of india's best known billionaires aged $53.00 the textile chi coon as an estimated net worth of $1500000000.00.
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on weekends he hands out on his 50 meter yacht the. 3 storey floating palace built entirely out of precious wood its crew is ready to set sail it anytime anywhere from the indian ocean to the mediterranean and back again. good luck to both of them all the. doable. but we haven't been in a long while what this whole lot of us isn't isn't that july august which is the best time you know obviously. because of the monsoon season is not as good a go do a little bit of it because it's only 11 am but the party has already started the weekend always begins with the cocktail prepared by the boss himself it's not for these old school friends the weekend and go is a reunion not to be missed the breakfast especially on the menu truffle omelets caviar japanese chocolates and fine been to each one separate wishes and caviar
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dreams that i'm. going to drop them organize this outing himself ordering provisions to be flown in from london this weekend he shares his privileged lifestyle with his friends. by the end of the morning the group's 50 somethings are reliving their adolescence it's only the size and style of the toys that have changed. go is the playground of india's billionaires because it's an easy distance from india's financial capital mumbai the 22000000 resident mega city ranks 4th on the world's list of cities with the most billionaires. their penchant for high rise construction has altered the city's skyline. some towers have an estimated worth of more than a 1000000000 euros. this 36 storey development was designed as a residence for
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a 2nd on your family the lower floors are dedicated to the family's famous textile brand raymond. raymond claims to be the world's biggest producer of high quality worsted wool suits it boasts 60 percent of market shares in india and 3000 shops across the country today the group sponsors paying a visit to the brand's flagship. store level. this is just. to find. our fabrics are very. cool. and most churches are the certain. so we know that in. the ranks with special favor. the remote brand has been under the sun his family ownership since 1944 he was losing momentum when he took his father's place as c.e.o. in 2000 with imus steered the company on
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a course of diversification today raymond presents itself as a high end company and its profits are up. so this would be about. 14000 euros for just the fabric for a suit and then the stitching will set for raymond is a brand new order really says from 250 roubles a move 230-0000 rupees a move across the range of resetting up on the back seat of the most everybody reza room and when brand. new stores the boss wears a suit and tie but outside of work he prefers sportswear because a day in the life of what thomason anea is a sprint from start to finish. to avoid mumbai's notorious traffic he takes a helicopter. to. the company's headquarters are located north of
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mumbai an american style campus for 1500 employees complete with royal palm trees and impeccable lawns. and you visit them you're right. it's not tradition and it's in order. since they acquired an old wool factory here the singer honey is have reigned supreme so when the boss arrives to review a new collection tension rises a notch. good looking good presentation to a c.m.d. is very difficult because he's the boss that was all our lives looking for new developments and here's what the. brilliant best of the 530 looking at the 5 b.c. with liberty to do with the high because of what it does or do under orders from waco not a question of the kashmir. he's very hard up and the boss arrives his
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team has 30 minutes to win him over. but no one likes. the people who want to take the spot and he will kill. me. or look at these little things that you need to look in to. the next. i use synthetic that. moving is just one. of the lizards to identify 30 percent for. the textile king holds the reins of his family business firmly in his hands and like any sovereign thomason honea has his court and his protocol. this is the ante chamber of power. behind this door the throne room. a showcase with the glory of this billionaire and
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just family all right to put up memories of pictures of my walls that put up you know paintings which have no meaning to. this ng 100 years or an old family from raw just on their part of the merchant community whose members of long featured on india's ritualistically were growing up did you always have this image in your head that you were going to be taking over this company we groomed for this role yeah i think you've been trained for this you know in ahmadi system you rock trained to get into the family business and you expected to do that so but that was dinner conversation though we can converse ations wrote you know a lot of conversation very well run business so you sort of learnt that we have will come from right just on from a small pot and therefore we call it covered a lot of ideas and and for some strange reason the shakeout in my right is they've all gone out and become big business money. it seems that business acumen has once again passed to the next generation. vacay no learning in
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business he's been coming here since the age of 5. he walks around the office and so are you very inquisitive is good but that's it they have. a woman at the head of this group would be a 1st in this male dominated business but it's not unthinkable for moare his family and community to take precedence the. ultra ambitious megalomaniacs the new maharajah's cast themselves as the heroes of modern india. where they party and underfunded social net has left more than $40000000.00 of the country's children suffering from malnutrition some of india's wealthy are masters of tax evasion and 2016 indian assets stashed overseas were estimated at around $500000000000.00. india's most flamboyant 0 will for the fall into how do the
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business about it or the bank for that get to the front seat now has been developed by the government the country's most notorious tax dodgers v.j. manya a chairman of the multinational conglomerate united breweries group whose interests include aviation real estate and fertilizer not content with the fortune he made from a business empire including kingfisher beer he said is science on launching an airline earning him another moniker the branson of bangalore but surging oil prices and high government fuel levies sank his dream he left india after the faltering on debts of more than a 1000000000 euros linked to his failing enterprise indian authorities moved to seize his assets villas planes and cars but months after he escaped the country we found his fleet of gleaming vintage cars in delhi using a hidden camera we checked out years secret stash. 40 rare luxury cars.
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mario left him behind 20 fled the country at the time of filming his whereabouts were unclear but we traced him to france. on the coaches or where he owns a spectacular residence near kind of on the new santa margarita one of the most expensive properties in the area. the villa and its expansive gardens are estimated to be worth between 30 and 40000000 year us. local residents know the man we're looking for the billionaire has managed to secure a special privileges in this car free community. how to get around the on what to buy car or many of them. but it's are pedestrian on the car free. yes but he's
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the only one who's authorized. to huge boats here to get a nice apartment in monaco. yes he's got it good here. while his secluded estate offers a haven of peace the heavy party scene in nearby monaco is entirely due b.j. mall used taste for high living. he's hosted a series of lavish receptions during the formula one grand prix like this one on his mega yacht in 2013. playing on d'souza his long dead body is going to. i people fighting them on the ball. doing the f one but that's when we are like you want to you want to put his money. in the pot and if nobody decides sometime last minute you know that i want to have a body and he actually has
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a foot. nightclub inside of the line i believe was the theater but they were telling you what television in like in the good news is that if you all would i wish him and stuff like that for days of long. but in 2016 the party was over for v.j. maja facing fraud charges in india he escaped to london he's been a u.k. resident since he joined the ranks of the global super rich more than 20 years ago like many of them move out 1st or 2nd residence in the british capital maintains at least 2. we tracked him down to his mansion on the northern outskirts of london. though our request for an interview went unanswered we did manage to catch up with him indulging in his favorite hobby race cars. at the time he was still the owner of force india formula one team unveiling its
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car for the 27 team season. after engaging him in a conversation about his favorite sport we coaxed the exiled billionaire into talking about his legal woes. he denies any wrongdoing. i do not. want to you will personally through any bank. kingfisher airlines limited unfortunately close down the business and to try to hold me personally to sponsible because one full face could just as occupancy right. why should i. must of all that has to be dropped. leak charge against me was dead isn't. right. but it turns out indian authorities had filed criminal fraud charges against 1000000 just the previous months. and 2 months after we met him here malya was arrested by scotland yard. hard on an extradition
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warrant he's remained free on bail as he fights efforts to send him back to india. b.j. money is spectacular fall hasn't put a damper on the billionaire aspirations of young indians in his bling bling s.u.v. even lou throwing is hard to overlook as you trying times around london marketing his new out bottle on. line is the best bucket full bottle you know there's just too many people spending too much disposable in couple bottles that they don't remember the next day it's within myself they go out and people obviously buy more and more champagne bottles that are spotless because to do it the girls come to the tables and that's what they want they want to go to so it's a shallow society it's always the competition the ghost everybody gets everybody. makes the commission what i wear our clothes so that's how we make money. with bottle pop evan predicts you can earn as much as $20000.00 euros in commissions per
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event because london is a magnet for the super rich including of course those from india. they see one with so many ways it could get good. indian businessmen have taken over london they crazy you know little and he's one of the biggest residences and it is just the top indian business though he is the largest private employer in all of the u.k. india company is the biggest i would just. haven't spent a lot of time in london not least to scout out new business ideas tonight he has a meeting at a fairground withstand a 17 year old from france with a big idea he's looking for funding for his project a virtual reality headset for medical students to practice surgical procedures. a few weeks later have and will invest 580000 euros in the young frenchman started a millionaire doesn't just want recognition in india he's seeking to boost his
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internet. national profile that means travelling and extravagant parties there and essential component of his image. 24 hours later we find him in berlin in yet another luxury car this evening evan has a meeting in a suite that costs 2700 euros a night he's joined by other millionaires like himself they're all under 25 and exclusively men. chinese german russian and indian these are the rich kids of instagram the world's golden youth who vying for followers on social media they are the spoiled children of the digital age. amid posts that reveal lives of extreme privilege and startling access to their
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instagram message they have more money than you and this is what they can do. trips to dream destinations did launch parties pampered in luxury 7 lutherans one of the most active rich kids on social media in just a few years he's become one of the stars of the group. and the cost of this soiree is confidential but these 20 somethings can burn through 100000 euros in one night. and success is the name of the game evan luther as invested in more than 40 businesses around the globe he's just one of the new maharajah's seeking to conquer
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the world every year a new. names join the ranks of indian billionaires every new throw won't rest until his millions become billionaires. was. a credit. to god. the past season was the hand story and sing found its millennium and a man suppose. there was some raise money. for your education once more with feeling. very fast colors of this back a couple. of minutes on t.w. . the quiet melody
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