Gautam Adani
Ahmedabad, India
India
commodities, infrastructure, Self Made
$11,900,000,000
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#10 India's Richest 2018
#453 Billionaires 2016
Ports tycoon Gautam Adani controls Mundra Port, India's largest, in his home state of Gujarat.His $11.65 billion (revenue) Adani Group's interests include power generation and transmission, real estate and commodities.Adani's overseas assets include Australia's Abbott Point port and the controversial Carmichael coal mine, billed as one of the world's largest.In August 2018, Adani completed the $2.6 billion acquisition of Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Infrastructure's power business in Mumbai. In August 2018, the group won the distribution rights to supply piped cooking gas and compressed natural gas for automobiles in 21 cities.
Adani is a college dropout, who spurned his father's textile shop to set up a commodities export firm in 1988.Adani survived the terrorist attack in Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in 2008.
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