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you're watching the news from berlin up next film with an inside look at india's super rich i'll be back with more world news at the top of the hour as always thanks so much for joining. us. it was a season of high pixar correction as it winds down the next exciting event is right around the corner. german bundesliga is heating up and as always we are there to keep you updated with the latest on the kickoff. to sleep soccer starting august
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16th on. this luxury us residents near the indian capital a building 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's getting married. prior grooms money garland as an austin taisha symbol of power and prosperity avenue through is the guest of honor. he has no qualms about flashing his cash about the young self-made millionaires that prides cousin. the self describe serial
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entrepreneur has made a very substantial donation to the couple. and i don't believe you love doug and only yeah you did a lot of things man love him a lot you know yeah definitely i'm still proud of that you. 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 my life i was brought up in but what i grew up with your that's what they say doesn't matter how successful you get get but forget where you came from inventing supposedly go on for a long time used at least a week with 5 or 6 functions and it means a lot it's a very excessive over the top for you so yeah i look forward to having indian big fat indian benteke so that deficit thing enjoy official. with one foot in the culture of tradition and the other in the culture of excess evan as
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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 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. sent china among countries with the most billionaires following a spurt of economic growth from 2003 or 4 times more indian billionaires today than there were 25 years ago. oh dallas alongst to us is leeching my rooms to rack up here. 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. mom. the system you train group to get into the family business the
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expected. god thompson honey i was given a 1000000000 dollar textile empire by his father in a decade his fortune has multiplied 10 fold. to separate wishes and caviar dreams that i think. he mean billionaires have a penchant for expensive talks. damani . this been 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. and guess loss flamboyant a way for de ford to. look or baron b.j. manya left india in 2016 to escape charges of fraud and money laundering. we met him in britain. that you're going to come home for face the justice up your country
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right home. life and. there are stories of upward mobility confound us all roach 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 sun rose against 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. noida in the suburbs of delhi a gated community with secure grounds and private guards. with the wealthy.
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on the terrace of his parents' home we meet up with the young tech entrepreneur ave through. the luxury duplex has a commanding view of the capital evan lives here with his mother and father they're 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 devised his 1st smartphone app after high school he pursued a career in the field of startups. using goals that are set for myself by 21 i wouldn't be here 1000000 a month which i'm pretty close by 20 i want to be at a 1000000 a week in my 25000000 a day. 2 he aspires to become a billionaire and he's not shy about displaying the success of his achievements so
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far. forever and all that glitters is gold he sees all these acquisitions as investments. i've got him 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 far it's kind of illegal in india 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 and this will end up in the open so here in this bag is about $8000.00 but it's it's not a is it doesn't lose its value i could sell it back again probably would sell for a lot more as. my initials on it now. arrival at the headquarters of the family
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business home to the young man's office evan secret to success the surge in on demand apps and on 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've already got a new set up in the way we want to make it go 500 people use it was it conceivable 5 and feed which is a possible thing can you give an estimate of what i'm going to take to build this i would. bottle pop is designed for partying urban youth. stables and like i say 6 somebody wants to cloud and get your friends and they want to have a table read it with themselves get
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a set of we say you want to they tend to spend money they settle as you book a table with a click a button. to rapidly grow his revenue ever and also buys ideas from others he's bought shares in several dozens of startups benefiting from their profits and watching his money grow. nighty night has notice that i invested is what now with 2000000 in that company so that's how i look at it and that's that that's a 20 x. a ton of stuff getting like. he inherited his 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. though he was skeptical at 1st evan's father is now amazed by his son's achievements getting up at the beginning by the.
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i don't feel like that is the limit it's you know you don't know what to do but he on his own kid knows that he has a he would like what i want. while his father is delighted by his accent as his son spending habits are a different matter religion and tradition are important to this family yes it was part of that but if you get told about it. brought it by putting the other. day. i haven't got that much that they're good for you sort of the best one for today were you without having to find that you hadn't ordered it that you already. know pretty desperate for a bit of one of the good addition to the other day you know it you know it is what else did 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
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dazzling splendor once reserved for the country's feudal princes the maharajah's wealth was measured by the splendor of their palaces. today that he sentence of the raj put dynasty still own vast estates in russia just on. one of the most beautiful palaces belongs to the others he is our family cousins of them out on show john poor the aussies are as have ruled over these lands for 3 centuries now they are seeking new ways to fund their princely lifestyle. but about the princes in the palace today so we're raising the flag. which say they're basically. just poking at the breakfast. 32 year old abi manu who's the titular print. head of the family his day begins
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with silverware and waiters in uniform today he's breakfasting at the foot of his bed with his younger brother. if i go down and have breakfast and then everybody is coming to meet you and saw what was happening and bad i feel your 1st me should be absolutely. only people you want to be with so that then you can plan your day. what to do and when to do and how to do it. maybe minute father transform the palace into a hotel 15 years ago and trusting its management to his oldest son everyone you studied management and some of the country's biggest talent so tells he's very demanding. i usually change my rooms whenever i come here stay in a different room every time i come i believe. there are a lot of advantages to it when people come to see them as they should feel they
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should live those 2 days of their life how i live. so that's the reason if you see the palace everyone was absolutely 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 that about all of the palace and this is where people used to come and meet my grandfather and you see all of them out there in paintings. reviews in about 14000 pieces of gold leaf 2 and i ran away at this whom back to its glory and it took me about
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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 by other aristocratic families. who 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. magic is going to happen. and. i. don't. think it will get it here. but the idea came during drinks with a friend and mick jagger. we were having a drink together. and by he said that you know his father. just recently gifted
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both the sons the mean values about caesar and so. say say oh you should do a festival there are. $3000.00 music fans will be descending on the palace for the festival most of them young hipsters from the capital tickets cost more than $100.00 euros by local standards a hefty price for entertainment. 710 this or. any other palace right there. the festival's reputation extends beyond india's borders for this 3rd edition some 40 deejays answer the prince's call center of arrived from all over the world these 2 experimental musicians are from luxembourg.
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the festival is just getting started we come across some french people in the crowd dazzled by abbey monuments hospitality. if you could you know the prince before. you know not at all that's the prince i'm thrilled so he owns the space it's magical it's a base the decoration and then there's the desert all around it's magnificent. it looks like. the prince's aim is to get people talking about these are today his go on has been achieved music gives me and i basically what it's being about. after all caesar is getting probably had obviously comes along but the village is where it gets to be
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so get off. the musically inclined prince has another project in the works he wants to start a festival of traditional music in another of his family's palaces. in the early 20th century in news 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
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if this is a house that was born in. us you got it you see are good that we kept it as it is use me i want to be able to remember where i came from a young to remind me of my progress from the earth to today my mother. returned to the village may draw a crowd but has a low caste a doll it can find also drawn she grew up here facing poverty discrimination and. you don't know this that you see was the dividing line of the village you those who lived on that side were people from superior castes just weren't aware of it and on this side with the lower castes the untouchables. in india dilutes or at the bottom of the caste system known as untouchables and considered impure their i shunned community often forced to earn their living with unpleasant and dangerous work. and
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my grandfather used to go and work for people of higher castes i'm going to do a little we would follow him. but we never entered the homes of these people we were left outside and it well defined area so i did not know that we were forbidden from touching their food and when we with this tea they gave us glasses that only we used that as. a gesture. really. regularly returns to her religion to organize charity events this morning she's inaugurating a temporary medical facility that offers free i checkups and classes. that are close. how are you my right eye is weak these classes should help. this is that goes. republic of us and the disability that they did it is
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a 2 hour walk to reach the nearest hospital so villagers are grateful for such medical assistance. and a couple good evening i've seen publicly tostado so i know very well the problems that these people face to me by his service 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 i was 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 roger'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 ostracized by the stigma of divorce on
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. the younger but maybe you know people couldn't understand that i was back still now 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 commit suicide bus while doing poison. was just going to $7.00 to that i changed i was determined to prove that i was worth something it was the beginning of my fight the beginning of my journey. back. and said i am not how my dad is there are right now has asked. me. to do both. 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 then worked as a tailor with a government loan she opened her own business and then began investing in real
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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. 2 will again that was when i invested everything i had me a woman and i touchable 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 hasi go. the. carpenter has courage and determination to help 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 on prefers modesty to an ostentatious show of wealth she pursues her business interests from this unassuming office in downtown mumbai. even with what i think for now the idea is to develop
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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 to stop work we need to put 4500000 euros on the table and here's a look at that a look at. catherine our works with her daughter seema 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 on the outside will be exposed don't think of to be part of business there goes well in addition to a business center we want to launch a startup café people will be able to share ideas while having a child coffee do you. see mr rogers 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
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a plus point in that i'll believe that this is. the station that say we have to the other own so i think it's amazing i think people love to sit here and you know enjoy the evenings seamers 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 you've never heard me and my brothers in that way before what this ship. what is she going through she'll eventually want us to have be happy nothing much will never. work all she had space to achieve this today has been no people like you men take that it does feel from what intel you became with that oh different than to force a book which. despite the multi-million dollar projects that they manage the family has not locked itself away in an ivory tower rather than
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a grand apartment in an upmarket neighborhood the family lives in this building in a northern by suburb. so roger's humble origins make her an exception 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 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 chua thumbs and honea so we go to my good. job this one. would have a lot. at the helm of a leading clothing brand said on united's one of india's best known billionaires
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aged $53.00 to textile cancun as an estimated net worth of $1500000000.00. on weekends he heads out on his 50 meter yun the oceana a 3 story floating collars built entirely out of precious wood its crew is ready to set sail at any time anywhere from the indian ocean to the mediterranean and back. to the maldives. we haven't been in a long while what this whole thought of us isn't isn't that july august which is the best time that you know obviously. because of the months of season as well as you're going to 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 for these old school friends that weekend and go is a reunion not to be missed the breakfast especially on the menu truffle omelets
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caviar japanese chocolates and fine been teach wines the chef made wishes that gabby had said i'm going to drop them organized 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. 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
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a 1000000000 euros. this 36 storey development was designed as a residence was saying on your family the lower floors are dedicated to the family's famous textile brand rayment raman claims to be the world's biggest producer of high quality worsted wool suits it boasts 60 percent of market shares in india and $3000.00 shops across the country today the group sponsors paying a visit to the brand. flexion. says. it's. still it is yes it is just from iran but it's easy to find. in our fabric there's very. little the county will buy. a new shirt things are the certain. and so we know it in. the right it should specially favor. the room on brand has been under 600 years family ownership since 1944 he was
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losing momentum when he took his father's places c.e.o. in 2000 with ominous steered the company on a course of diversification today raymond presents itself as a high end company and its profits are up. so this would be about 3 that groupies it. would be a lot. 14000 euros for just the fabric for a salute and then the stitching will be set for raymond as a brand in order really says from 252 because the mood at the 300000 rupees a move across the range every single from the backseat of the most everybody reza room 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 thomas and anya is a sprint from start to finish. to
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avoid mumbai's notorious traffic he takes a helicopter. to. the company's headquarters are located north of mumbai an american style campus for 1500 employees complete with royal balm trees and impeccable lawns. during his tenure with them you're right. it's no tradition and it's no afternoon. since they acquired an old wool factory here the singer honey is of range supreme so when the boss arrives to review a new collection tension rises a notch. who took this position to a c.m.d. is very difficult because he's the boss that was a live look in for new developments and here's what the. brilliant best of the 530
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looking at the 5 b.c. would have been to do with the 5 years old when it does or 200 letters from bike were not out of the question in kashmir. he's very hard up and he's the boss arrives his team has 30 minutes to win him over. but no one. else will look you will be one to take the risk and you will kill. you. know that's you know look you didn't want to respond next. it's interesting this. movie is just. the lizards that identified 30 percent of. the textile king holds the reins of his family business firmly in his hands and like any sovereign or thomas and has his court and his protocol. this is the ante chamber of power.
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behind this door the throne room. the showcase where the glory of this billionaire and his family are rather put up memories of pictures of my walls that put up you know paintings which have no meaning to me. conyers are 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 look like they're going to be taking over this company we groomed for this role yeah i think you've been trained for this you know nom adi system you rock trained to get into the family business and expected to do that so but it was dinner conversations all we can converse ations you know a lot of conversations of all around business so you sort of learnt that we're already there will come from right just from a small pot go shake of it and therefore recall she covered a lot of ids and and for some strange reason the shakeout in my right is they've
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all gone out and become big business minutes it seems that business acumen has once again passed to the next generation. vacay no learning the business he's been coming here since the age of 5 meetings he walks around the office and so are you very inquisitive is good but that's a very of. 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. while a 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
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evasion and 2016 indian assets stashed overseas were estimated at around $500000000000.00. india's most flamboyant 0 will for the photo how did that bank how do i owe the book you get to see now is what i was going to walk by the government the country's most notorious tax dodgers v.j. maja 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 set his sights 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
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found his fleet of gleaming vintage cars in delhi using a hidden camera we checked out years secrets to. 40 rare luxury cars. a year left him behind 20 fled the country at the time of filming his whereabouts were unclear but we traced him to france. on the code to 0 where he owns a spectacular residence near khan on the use 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 who are looking for the billionaire has managed to secure a special privileges in this car free community. how to get around the on what you
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buy car or many of them that you like but it's a pedestrian are the car free we say yes but he's the only one who's authorized. to do what with yes 2 huge boats here to get a nice apartment in monaco. yes he's got a good here. while his secluded state offers a haven of peace for the heavy party scene in nearby monaco he's entirely to be james well 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. claim on d'souza has long been money has gone to d.j. . i believe whole body the monocle. doing the f one so that when we are like we on the on if you want to you would want to put me on
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he's won me time in the boss and if i would but he decides sometimes last minute you know like i want to have a body and he actually had a full fledged nightclub inside of the line i'd be a force to be had but david told me he would celebrate it in like indignations i did a q. on it would all go with him and stuff like that 40 in the long summer. 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 a 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
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indulging in his favorite hobby race cars. at the time he was still the owner of force india formula one team unveiling its car for the 2017 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. one you will trust relief to any bank. kingfisher airlines limited unfortunately close down the business and its right to hold me personally to sponsible because one fullface good just this up you can see it right. why should i. must of all that has to be a crop. leak charge against me was dead isn't. right. but it turns out indian authorities had filed criminal fraud charges against maja
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just the previous months. and 2 months after we met him here malya was arrested by scotland yard on an extradition 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 his hard. well we're looking at the tribes around london marketing his new app bottle on. line is the best marketable you know there's just too many people spending too much disposable bottles that they don't remember the next day they could in myself go out people and all this leaving buy more and more champagne bottles on the spot 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 all over the competition the ghost everybody can see everybody
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but that makes the commission what i wear clothes so that's how we make money. with bottle bomb peven predicts you can earn as much as $20000.00 euros in commissions per event because london is a magnet for the super rich including of course those from india. they see one with some better very good good good. indian businessmen have taken over london they crazy you know a little in his lot of the biggest residences and it is just the tata indian business that he is the largest private employer in all of the u.k. india company is the biggest i would. never spends 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 so
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a few weeks later heaven will invest 580000 euros in the young frenchman started the millionaire doesn't just want recognition in india he's seeking to boost his international profile that means travelling and extravagant parties they're an essential component of his image. 24 hours later we find him in berlin in yet another luxury car this evening everyone has a meeting in a suite that costs 2. 1700 euros a night he's joined by other millionaires like himself they're all under 25 and exclusively man. 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
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of the digital age. amid posts that reveal lives of extremes privilege and startling access to their instagram message they have more money than you and this is what they can do. trips to dream destinations to watch parties pampered and luxury revenue through as 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. if this stuff exists that just a success. and success is the name of the game evan lutheran has invested in
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more than 40 businesses around the globe he's just one of the new maharajah's seeking to conquer the world and every year new names join the ranks of indian billionaires evan let's throw won't rest until his millions become billions. these are the last of their kind. of whole species on the brink of extinction. garden gnomes are dying out. their natural habitat is under threat. and they have very few say they've been floated. is it already too late for the garden gnomes.
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the romantics and 30 minutes one t.w. . robots are still in the development phase 5 so what is going to happen when they grow up will humans and machines be able to peacefully co-exist or are we on the verge of a robot colors. if we just bumble into this totally unprepared with our heads in the sand fusing to think about what could go wrong then let's face it it's probably going to be the biggest mistake in history. artificial intelligence is now spreading through our society ai will experts be able to agree on ethical guidelines or will this technology create deadly new autonomous weapon systems.
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