Raj is 27, writes code in a one bedroom flat in Bangalore, and a few months ago he did something almost nobody thinks to do.

He went to a government IT auction.

If you have never heard of these, that is exactly the point.

Every few months, banks and government departments quietly sell off their old servers, hardware they have already written off, stuff nobody in the room really wants.

Raj wanted it, and he came home with four storage shelves, 96TB of hard drives and a managed switch.