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Yogendra Vasupal always knew how to make money. He knew about shares and debentures at 10, from his economics professor father. When he was in class five, stickers that glowed in the dark were all the rage in his school. He would buy a bunch for Rs 25 and sell them loose in his school. It gave him 70 per cent return, weekly. 

That worked for eight weeks until the shopkeeper, the only one in the vicinity that sold those stickers, realised what was happening and started selling the stickers loose, and shut down Vasupal’s little venture.

From then onwards, Vasupal has