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Lunch with Sumiko: Co-founder of Singapore fintech Nium on how average people can find success

Prajit Nanu did so-so in school, but ambition led him to found a fintech called Nium, which has attained unicorn status.

Prajit Nanu was an average student in Mumbai. Orphaned in his teens, ambition drove him to start the fintech Nium, which is now worth US$1 billion.

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Oct 24, 2021, 05:00 AM

From an early age, Prajit Nanu knew that he wanted to be rich and successful.

Growing up in Mumbai, he would gaze at the expensive houses by the sea and wish he could live in such a house, too.

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