Top 10 Indian Entrepreneurs

1. Dhirubhai Ambani - Dhirubhai Ambani 1932–2002 is an Indian businessman who started out humbly by selling traditional snacks to religious pilgrims. His business soon grew, and he expanded and diversified into industries including telecommunications, power generation, information technology, consumer goods, and logistics

2. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata - Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata or JRD Tata 1904–1993 was born in Paris to Indian and French parents. He was trained as an aviator in Europe and later became Indias first commercial airline pilot. Working for the family business, TATA group, he set out on his own and built TATA Airlines, which ultimately became the modern Air India.

3. Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy - Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, age 75, is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded IT giant Infosys INFY with an initial investment of 10,000 rupees, or just a few hundred dollars in todays terms.

4. Shiv Nadar - Shiv Nadar, 76, founded HCL Infosystems in 1976 with an investment of a few thousand dollars, selling calculators and microcomputers. HCL soon expanded to Singapore and the Far East, generating over 1 million rupees in sales not long after its expansion. HCL has continued to grow, making Nadar a billionaire worth over 24.5 billion.

5. Lakshmi Niwas Mittal - Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, 71, is an Indian entrepreneur who began his career working for his fathers steel business. He later set out on his own, due to family infighting and created what is now one of the largest steelmakers in the world, ArcelorMittal MT. As of May 18, 2022, ArcelorMittal has a market capitalization of 25.79 billion.

6. Ghanshyam Das Birla - Ghanshyam Das Birla 1894-1983 is a well-known Indian businessman who started his first company in the early 1900s operating a cotton and textile mill. By 1919, Birlas businesses also included significant paper and sugar production. By the time he died, Birla Group was a multi-sector global conglomerate.

7. Dilip Shanghvi- Dilip Shanghvi, 66, started Sun Pharmaceutical in 1982 with a meager 10,000 rupee investment, or approximately 200. As the son of a pharmaceutical distributor, Shanghvi knew what he was doing. Today, through gradual development and a series of acquisitions, that investment has grown revenue in 2021 to 4.31 billion, making Sun Pharma Indias largest pharmaceutical company.

8. Azim Premji - Azim Premji, 76, is worth an estimated 9 billion and is the former chair of Wipro Industries WIT, a diversified software and technology company that many have compared to Microsoft. Premji is sometimes referred to as Indias Bill Gates as a result, alongside his informal title as czar of the Indian IT industry

9. Mukesh Jagtiani - Mukesh Micky Jagtiani, 70, is an Indian-Emirati businessman who has spent most of his life outside of India. While he was educated in Mumbai and Beirut, he moved to London for accounting school, before dropping out. Soon, starting his first company while driving a taxi, his company eventually grew into the retail and real estate giant Landmark, now based out of Dubai.

10. Ardeshir Godrej - Ardeshir Godrej 1868-1936 co-founded the Godrej Group, a diversified conglomerate with interests in real estate, consumer products, security, household appliances, and industrial tools. The company had modest beginnings—Ardeshir and his brother succeeded at locksmithing after failed ventures into hand-fashioned medical devices.

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