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In 2023, Bhargava launched several hydration drink brands – True
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After college, Bhargava returned to India and spent the next 12 years traveling to and from monasteries owned by the
Hanslok Ashram. During this period, Bhargava moved back and forth between the US and India and worked a variety of middle-class office and construction jobs.
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drink. By 2012, the brand had grown to do an estimated $ 1 billion in sales. In 2015, Bhargava pledged 99% of his net worth to improve the well-being of the world's less fortunate. In 2023, Bhargava was named interim chief executive of
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Bhargava and his company, Innovations Ventures, had participated in up to 90 court cases against competitors, suppliers and associates since 2003. As of 2012, fourteen of those cases had been settled or dismissed.
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