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Slumdog billionaire: Incredible rags-to-riches tale of Polygon’s Sandeep Nailwal

Published 10/31/2023, 09:30 AM
Updated 10/31/2023, 10:00 AM
Slumdog billionaire: Incredible rags-to-riches tale of Polygon’s Sandeep Nailwal

From his childhood living in a ghetto on the east bank of the Yamuna river in Dehli to launching the $6-billion Polygon blockchain, Sandeep Nailwal has an incredible rags-to-riches tale.

Now happily ensconced in the futuristic, air-conditioned cityscape of Dubai, he tells Magazine he was born in a farming village in 1987 with no electricity called Ramnagar in the foothills of the Himalayas.

An image of part of the Jamna-Paar area in Dehli. (thecitizen.in)
The Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire was renamed in India. Crore equates to 10 million rupees. (Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN))
Sandeep Nailwal. (Polygon)
Sandeep Nailway in Cointelegraph Top 100 2023. (Cointelegraph)
Sandeep Nailwal and Anurag Arjun in the early days of Matic. (Twitter)
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His wedding to his wife Harshita Singh. (Facebook (NASDAQ:META))
His wedding to his wife Harshita Singh. (Facebook)

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