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Sanjiv Goenka On Billionaires, The Next Big Opportunities & Building Wealth | FO553 Raj Shamani
📅 25 August 2026 at 09:09 pm · Hosted by Figuring Out
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Dr Sanjiv Goenka, Chairman of RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, on building a conglomerate from businesses everyone else abandoned.
He explains:
◼ How he turned Kolkata's broken, debt-ridden power business into a turnaround story his own father called a stupid decision
◼ How billionaires spot business opportunities before everyone else sees them
◼ Why he believes the burn-money-to-grow unicorn culture is a fundamentally flawed way to build lasting companies
◼ What happened when his regulator and his competitor were the exact same person during a five-year legal war
◼ How to grow a family business from 4000 crore to 1 lakh crore in one generation
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:56 - How Billionaires Spot Opportunities Before Everyone Else
04:51 - Top 3 Future Business Opportunities: Renewable Energy, Batteries and Data Centers
09:53 - Why He Is Skeptical of the Burn Money to Grow Startup Culture
12:07 - The Ayurveda Pharma Op
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