Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the most successful businessman in the country. He has a net worth of $80.5 billion and is currently the 6th richest person in the world.
He is also the only Indian in the top 10.?
Akash Ambani and Isha Ambani Piramal, Mukesh's elder son and daughter, are also marking their place in the world and have been placed in the Fortune global 40-under-40 technology list 2020.
47 years old, Reliance Industries is India's largest company and has earned a fortune in petrochemicals and is now dominating the country's mobile connectivity market with low-cost wireless carrier Jio which was introduced in 2016.?
28-year-old Akash and Isha are Mukesh and Nita Ambani's twin children.?
Akash got married to Shlokha Mehta, who is the Rosy Blue Diamonds heiress in 2019 and Isha was hitched to Anand Piramal last year. He is the chairman of the Piramal Group.
While Akash joined the company in 2014 after receiving an economics degree from Brown University, Isha?joined a year later, following stints at Yale, Stanford, and McKinsey. Talking about the Ambani twins, Fortune said, "As Jio board members, they helped seal the company¡¯s recent megadeal with Facebook¡ª$5.7 billion for a 9.99% stake¡ªplus major follow-on investments from marquee tech titans like Google, Qualcomm, and Intel. The flurry of investments lent the business an eye-popping $65 billion private valuation."
It added, "The Ambani scions lead enviable lives: attending private concerts featuring Beyonc¨¦, partying with buddies Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, living it up in a 27-story residential skyscraping pleasure palace in Mumbai".
Fortune also mentioned how the twins - Akash and Isha, along with their younger brother, Anant, who is 25 years old, are prepping to take over their father's vast billionaire empire.?
Reliance is now entering retail and a major proving ground will be e-commerce. Recently, both Akash and Isha helped launch Jio Mart, a venture that aims to challenge Amazon and Walmart¡¯s Flipkart for command of India¡¯s massive and fast-growing online shopping market.
Byju's founder Byju Raveendran is another Indian who made it to the 40-under-40 technology list. Fortune wrote,?"Byju Raveendran has shown the world that it really is possible to build a massively successful online education company."?
Founded in 2011, Byju¡¯s is India¡¯s biggest education technology company. The company has raised over $1 billion and is now worth more than $10 billion.?