From village boy to cyber billionaire: The Indian-American who turned $200 into $9.3 bn

Hundreds of miles from the Indian capital, small-scale farmers, Bhagat and Surjeet Chaudhry, welcomed their youngest son in Panoh, a tiny village in the foothills of the Himalayas, in the late 1950s. Jagtar Singh Chaudhry’s formative years were spent growing up in a village that had no running water or electricity. Its less-than-1,000 population had no choice but to self-sustain as a community. Leading a simple life, they would grow their own cotton and make their own clothes.

At a time when his farming family only had access to the bare minimum and touching the skies seemed far out of his reach, the young boy still swore by the power of education,