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Anonymous

Hey I am on Medial • 21d

Ritesh Agarwal wasn’t born poor—he came from a business-minded Marwari family in Odisha. His father ran a business, providing financial stability, private schooling, computer access, and an English-speaking home. The "college dropout" story sounds bold, but he could afford to fail thanks to a safety net. At 17, he started Oravel with family support. Failures were lessons, not losses. At 18, he got the Thiel Fellowship—a $100K grant not given to random kids, but to those already privileged. He quickly pivoted to OYO and secured VC funding through networks. Real dropouts work minimum wage jobs. Ritesh had the freedom to dream big without fear. That’s not luck—it’s privilege.

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Tarun Suthar
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India • 21d

Marwari's are thriving, no doubt! 🚀🔥

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Samanth Shetty

Building Nestsure • 21d

Bro is onto mission of exposing college dropouts 😂

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Vikas Acharya
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Welbe • 21d

marwari 🚀

Anonymous 2

Hey I am on Medial • 21d

Did you know he was not at home? when he was hustling? Please check your facts. He had to lie to his parents that he is still in college inorder to build OYO.

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Anonymous 1

Hey I am on Medial • 21d

Nahhh bro this is too much. If you think theil fellowship was given to him by mistake then you’re a fool

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Vikash Singh

Hey I am on Medial • 20d

Although a healthy criticism is good and to be honest, a lot of successful people never realise how much their privileges worked behind their so-called struggle. Privileges like family's financial and moral support, Ancestral wealth, their CASTE (if in India), race, ethnicity, religion, gender, connections etc., they might not know or deliberately ignore their privileges, and only tell motivational stories about their success to youngsters through hard work. So, overall, the crux of all this is never get demotivated if you fail in your life, and start giving fault to yourself if you think you gave your 100%. There may be no required privileges you had that would be necessary for your so-called success in that area. Just change the process to achieve that goal or change the goal.

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Nikhil Kamath wasn't a poor school dropout who built Zerodha from nothing. He was born into banking family privilege. Father Raghuram Kamath was executive at Canara Bank. Mother Revathi Kamath ran event management company managing corporate events. "

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