The richest Indian in America ?

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The Mystery Monk Making Billions With 5-Hour Energy


In one corner of Manoj Bhargava's office is a cemetery of sorts. It's a Formica bookcase, its shelves lined with hundreds of garishly colored screw-top plastic bottles not much taller than shot glasses. Front and center is a Cadillac-red bottle of 5-Hour Energy, the two-ounce caffeine and vitamin elixir that purports to keep you alert without crashing. In eight years 5-Hour has gone from nowhere to $1 billion in retail sales. Truckers swear by it. So do the traders in Oliver Stone's 2010 sequel to Wall Street. So do hungover -students. It's $3 a bottle, and it has made Bhargava a fortune.
Bhargava was born in India in the prosperous northern city of Lucknow. His parents were well-off, with a villa surrounded by lush, award-winning gardens. They left for America in 1967, so his academic publisher father could get a Ph.D. at Wharton. The family landed hard in West Philadelphia in a third-floor, $80-a-month walk-up with threadbare carpets on seedy 47th Street. They went from having servants in India to splitting one Coca-Cola four ways as a treat.
Bhargava claims to be the richest Indian in America—a title that officially belongs to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla—but trying to untangle Bhargava's business structure requires a 24-pack of 5-Hour Extra Strength. He could well be worth much more than Khosla's $1.3 billion. Living Essentials' closest comparable public company, energy drink giant Monster, trades at over 30 times earnings, making Bhargava easily a multibillionaire on paper.
Full article: The Mystery Monk Making Billions With 5-Hour Energy - Forbes
 

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^^ Chatwal is bankrupt. And he owes most rich Sardar families millions of Dollars. Notice he comes to India during weekends or court holidays.
 

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The richest Indian I thought was the brother in law of Narayanmurthy, Gururaj Deshpande of Sycamore Networks.
 

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Richest Asian - Mukesh Ambani

Richest European was Lakshmi Mittal. Currently at 2nd ranked after Bernard Arnault.
 

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^^ Chatwal is bankrupt. And he owes most rich Sardar families millions of Dollars. Notice he comes to India during weekends or court holidays.
Is he pardhan of American gurudawara parbanthak committee:laugh::laugh::laugh::taunt::taunt:
 

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