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STHe once owned 2 private islands & a 71-room mansion. Today, he calls himself ‘broke, not poor’.
Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, or Siva, was born in a simple home.
In the 1980s, he started Sterling Computers, which became a top IT company in India.
In 1999, he launched Aircel, which grew fast and gained millions of mobile users.
In 2006, he sold 74% of Aircel to Maxis, a Malaysian company.
That deal later pulled him into the 2G scam and legal troubles.
By 2018, Aircel went bankrupt. Siva said he lost Rs 7,000 crore.
His $4 billion empire collapsed—but he stayed strong.
A Donald Trump book inspired him. That same day, he declared bankruptcy.
Now, Siva says: “I had everything… then I watched it vanish.”
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