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The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Today, he has a net worth of $6.3 billion and annual group revenues of about $3 billion. This is an unusually candid memoir of a truly desi self-made businessman who came to Delhi at age twenty with seventeen rupees in his pocket. But the man continues to reinvent himself he is now also focusing on infrastructure and smart cities. Chandra’s attempts to launch satellite telephony and a cricket league came a cropper. Several gutsy initiatives followed, though not all of them were successful. His Zee TV, India’s first private Indian TV channel, changed the rules of the game and tickled the fancy of a public starved of entertainment. Always a risk-taker, Chandra then had the vision of getting into broadcasting early, even as established media players failed to see its potential. A little bit of luck and political patronage saw him make a fortune in rice exports to the erstwhile USSR. Starting work as a teen to pay off family debts, Chandra had to rely on bluff, gumption and sheer hard toil to turn things around. Hailing from a small town in Haryana, where his family ran grain mills, Chandra has been a perennial outsider, repeatedly aiming high and breaking into businesses where he was considered an interloper. The pioneer who gate-crashed his way to the top Subhash Chandra, the promoter of Essel/ Zee Group, is an unlikely mogul.

The z factor by subhash chandra