Adventures in personal life: Millionaires ran away from home!

The Dhaka Times Desk Ambarish Mitra was born in a simple family in Dhanbad in the state of Jharkhand in eastern India. Millionaire ran away from home!

Now he rightly compares his life to an adventure. After failing the exam, he ran away from home and went to Delhi.

After going there, he had to spend the night lying on the ground in a slum. There were 6 other people living in the same room. He had only two jobs during the day - selling newspapers and serving in restaurants!

While Ambarish Mitra was there one day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper. A competition for new business ideas. The winner will receive a cash equivalent of $10,000.

Only 16-year-old Ambarish Mitra's intellect won that day. Her idea was to provide free internet services to low-income women. The business started with prize money.

It is called Women Infoline. His business was successful. Ambarish Mitra gave employment to 125 employees.

He once sold this business and went to London with that money. But setting up a business in Britain was not easy. Omar Tayeb once met him through many setbacks.

এই দু’জনে মিলেই শুরু করলেন নতুন এক মোবাইল ফোন অ্যাপ, যার নাম দিলেন ব্লিপার। এরপর অম্বরীশ মিত্রকে আর পিছু ফিরে তাকাতে হয়নি। ব্লিপারের ব্যবসার পরিমাণ এখন দেড়শ’ কোটি ডলারের উপরে।

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