Meet India’s first internet billionaire who turned 40 failures into a Rs 499 cr payoff
- Posted on March 7, 2026
- By Financial Express
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Meet India’s first internet billionaire who turned 40 failures into a Rs 499 cr payoff
He had just sold IndiaWorld, a cluster of India-focused websites, to Satyam Infoway, later known as Sify, for Rs 499 crore. The sale was very interestingly timed - at the peak of the dotcom boom, when valuations could change in weeks, and the internet still felt like a frontier.
