Not customers but rather, business partners -
In 1998 a California porn princess commissioned a 25-year-old Indian computer wiz to write a piece of software...She had sold all her porn interests and it was time to invest the proceeds. Online gambling was the new buzz and she found a friend of a friend, Anurag Dikshit, a computer engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, to create a programme for casino games such as roulette.
The outcome -- the newest Sabeer Bhatia -
The extraordinary result of that meeting was seen yesterday when PartyGaming, the company they created, announced plans to float on the London stock market. Its PartyPoker website is the dominant force in the explosive online poker market and the business will be valued at up to $10bn, or a shade over £5bn - only a little less than Marks & Spencer, or the combined value of British Airways and EMI.At the top price, Mr Dikshit, who owns 42%, will be worth £2.1bn at the age of 33. Ms Parasol, in her late 30s, and her husband, Russ DeLeon, each own 20%, worth £1bn apiece. Billionaire status has rarely been achieved so young or so quickly.
Actually, given that he's a multi-billionaire, Mr Dikshit will actually be worth several Bhatia's (who's estimated to have pocketed only ~200M off Hotmail). My big question for those in the know, don't most folks with his last name transliterate it to Dixit?
