Already 15 minutes late to his next meeting, Deepak Agarwal stands on a corner in Manhattan's Diamond District, waiting for a hired car to whisk him 20 blocks south. The 29-year-old founder of a bargain-bin e-retailer called Nomorerack.com has just finished placing orders with a jeweler inside a stuffy, dimly lit fifth-floor office. Next up: a bedding merchant. Short and plump, Agarwal perspires in the late spring heat. A buzz cut makes him look like a teen; so do the canvas shoes, jeans and Oxford shirt with a flyaway collar. He grins as a black Suburban pulls up-his preferred way to get around the city-and a black-suited driver jumps out to open the door. "I'm a VTP customer," he says with his trademark giggle.
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