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The author grew up poor and was raised by a single mom.



> Ravikant was born in New Delhi, India in 1974. He moved to New York with his mother and his brother, Kamal, when he was 9.

On a scale of 1 to average Indian person today where would you put him?


Yeah ... I think most people do not realize that most Indian people they interact with are not from the lower classes.

I was invited and attended the wedding of my former Indian room mate and only then I realized that his family was pretty wealthy with a nice house in a nice district of Bangalore.


Today he's one of the richest people, not only from India, but anywhere in the entire world.

That's why so many people pay attention to his advice about how to get rich. He's not selling you course in order to become wealthy. He already has, and he's sharing what he learned without asking for anything in return.




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