CHAPTER 5
DISRUPTION IS A JOKE
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
—MAHATMA GANDHI1
He’s been called “The Greatest Business Tycoon of India,” “The Man Who Saw Tomorrow,” and “The Father of Indian Industrialization.”
By the numbers, he’s the world’s single greatest philanthropist, having given to others more than the next three contestants—Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and George Soros—combined. He founded one of the world’s grandest lodgings, the Taj Mahal Hotel. His foresight allowed India to become Britain’s main importer of cotton, overtaking America as the world’s leading cotton distributor, when he started an Indian entrepreneurial uprising, right under the nose of the British occupation.
He traveled ...
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