Mukesh Ambani is another billionaire Indian businessman, and, in fact, the richest person in India, making him approximately the 10th richest person in the world. His net worth is estimated at $83.6 billion.
He is the Chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd, a Fortune Global 500 company, and India’s most valuable company, by its market value. Reliance Industries is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. It includes diverse businesses across energy, natural gas, retail, petrochemicals, telecommunications, mass media, and more. As well as being India’s highest valued company, it is one of the country’s largest employers in India.
Ambani started out his career helping his father run the family business, Reliance Industries, by which time it was already a sizeable and varied business, working across several unique industries.
Sameer Gehlaut
Indiabulls Group founder Sameer Gehlaut is best known for the Indiabulls conglomerate, a diverse financial services group with a range of businesses across housing and consumer finance, all of which are listed in Indian stock exchanges.
Born in Rohtak, Haryana, Gehlaut now spends much of his time living in London, United Kingdom, where he develops luxury properties in the capital through his super-prime property developer, Clivedale, among other business interests.
Gehlaut’s net worth was estimated to be $2.1 billion by Forbes in 2019, and he was at one point one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the world. He is also the founder of the Indiabulls Foundation, a charitable foundation that has programmes across healthcare, education, energy products, and disaster relief.
Ritesh Agarwal
Ritesh Agarwal is a billionaire entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of OYO Rooms, a multinational hospitality chain of franchised and leased homes and hotels. Ritesh comes from a humble background in a family that ran a small shop. But he was entrepreneurial from the start – at the age of 13 he began selling SIM cards, and he dropped out of college at 17 to launch his first business.
Agarwal noticed that the traditional hotel sector was in dire need of disruption and so he focused his efforts on providing good quality and accessible accommodation on a budget for travellers. Today, OYO is the third largest hotel chain in the world, with properties in at least 800 cities in India.
His net worth was estimated to be $1.1 billion in 2020, making him one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the world. He is also listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list.
Nischal Shetty
While his net worth pales in comparison to some of the other entrepreneurs on this list, Nischal Shetty is an interesting entrepreneur and an influential figure in India’s cryptocurrency market, making him a valuable addition to this list. He found his riches as the founder and CEO of WazirX, and is also the creator of WRX.
Shetty started out as a software developer before becoming an entrepreneur when he founded one of India’s largest bitcoin exchanges. He also founded Crowdfire, which is an AI-powered marketing tool that is used by over 15 million people.
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy
R. Narayana Murthy is behind the Indian transnational conglomerate Infosys Ltd, as its founder, and has an estimated net worth of $4.5 billion. He has since retired but has remained as the company’s chairman. He is regarded by some as one of the finest Indian businessmen of modern times and is often named the ‘Father of the Indian IT industry’.
Murthy showed himself to be a bright spark early on, performing exceptionally well at one of India’s best technology schools, before going on to found Infosys. He played a significant role in the business’s success. Infosys is a major IT firm that performs consulting, IT, and outsourcing services to clients. In 2021, it had a valuation of more than $90 billion.
Gautam Adani
Gautam Adani is a billionaire and an industrialist who is best known as the chairman and founder of Adani Group, a multinational conglomerate that works in port development and operations.
Adani is currently the 21st richest person in the world, but at one point he briefly sat as the third richest person. At which point a significant drop in Elon Musk’s wealth meant the gap between Adani and Musk’s wealth narrowed to $47.1 billion.
The Indian billionaire has grabbed headlines throughout his career for his ventures and deals, and eventually purchased a source of headlines with the takeover of NDTV, one of India’s best known news outlets.
