Elon Musk. Jeff Bezos and Gautam Adani
Gautam Adani secured a fortune that is worth about $ 137.4 billion. In valuation, Adani passed the French business tycoon, Bernard Arnault. Records indicate that Gautam Adani put in about $ 60.9 billion in the year 2022 itself. The visionary has no signs of stopping and adds significant data to Gautam Adani biography that is being inscribed on the internet.
The Bloomberg billionaire index shows that Gautam Adani stands third after Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, respectively. He is the only person from Asia to make it this far. Even Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries and Jack Ma of Alibaba have not come till this point in valuation.
Gautam Adani has excelled in several domains of business that includes debuting as a diamond trader and expanded in industries like PVC (polyvinyl chloride), coal, metal, agricultural products, textiles and many more. Gautam Adani story has a never ending chapter, where he created the largest private sector port in India, called ‘Mundra Port’.
The 60 years old business mastermind also pledged to invest about $ 70 billion in the green energy industry to uplift the global vision on ‘net zero’. Such announcements were shared after the company got backlashes from environmentalists in Australia, where the Carmichael Mine is based. Investment companies like Warburg Pincus and another namely, TotalEnergies SE is backing Adani to venture into the green energy sector.
Critics are saying that Gautam Adani is over-ambitious as he is also under a lot of debts. But his valuation got boosted when he expressed his interest in donating about $ 7.7 billion to celebrate his 60th birthday. Gautam Adani education says he being a dropout breaks all social standards of being successful.