India is the world’s biggest democracy, with a steadily rising economy in recent decades. It also has the second-largest aboriginal population after China. Not unexpectedly, India has produced a host of billionaire businessmen and women. Following people are the most successful top-ranked entrepreneurs in India
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Dhirubhai Ambani
Dhirubhai Ambani is a businessman from India who began modestly by selling traditional snacks to religious pilgrims. His company quickly spread, and he globalised into markets such as telecommunications, power generation, information technology, consumer products, and logistics. Two of Ambani’s sons now run Reliance and are among India’s wealthiest people: Mukesh Ambani,63, is worth more than $51.78 billion, and Anil Ambani,60, who was once the world’s sixth-richest male, is now worth an estimated $109 million.
2.Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
JRD stands for Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata. Tata was born in Paris to Indian and French parents in 1904. He received his aviator training in Europe and went on to become India’s first commercial airline pilot. Working for the family firm, the TATA group, he struck out on his own and founded TATA Airlines, which evolved into the modern Air India. TATA operated nearly 100 different companies spanning many markets at the time of JRD Tata’s death. Notably, his car company, Tata Motors (TTM), manufactures affordable cars that almost all working Indians can afford. JRD Tata is a descendant of Jamsetji Tata, who established the TATA group of companies in the mid-nineteenth century.
3. Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar, 74, started HCL Infosystems in 1976 with a few thousand dollars and sold calculators and microcomputers. HCL quickly spread to Singapore and the far east, producing over 1 million rupees in revenue not long after. HCL has grown in value, making Nadar a billionaire worth more than $12.4 billion.
4. Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s trip has been quite intriguing. He is the creator of Paytm. He began his entrepreneurial journey with a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering. One fascinating thing about Vijay Shekhar Sharma is that while in college, he created the website indiasite.net. The journey didn’t end there, in the year 2000, he launched another internet service, this time to meet the demand for news, cricket scores, ringtones, exam results, and a variety of other topics with one97. Then, in 2011, Paytm appeared on the scene, with one97 as its parent company. Vijay became the Forbes billionaire list’s youngest billionaire in 2017. In 2016, he was named Entrepreneur of the Year.
5. Byju Raveendran
While many people follow the traditional path to business growth, Byju Raveendran was not one of them. He is the creator of BYJU’S The Learning App, who is born in a village in Kerala, India. Byju Raveendran is a true believer in helping people understand what they are doing, which is why the digital firm’s tagline is “Fall in love with learning.” He promotes the concept of first educating the students and then providing them with a path to passing the test. Byju is a person with many sides, but the one who appears to get the most attention is the Teacher Byju. All thanks to the mind behind the wheel, the Byju Learning App is now worth $5.4 billion. He is now one of the most successful entrepreneurs in India.
6. Harsh Jain
Harsh Jain introduced fantasy sports to India. The user could participate in fantasy cricket, baseball, rugby, and basketball on this website. Dream 11, like many other providers on the internet, uses a freemium model. When it comes to states and percentages, they are skyrocketing. In 2014, the website had 1 million users, in 2018, the figure was 45. The website has also been connected to well-known businesses and organisations such as the International Cricket Council, the International Hockey Federation, the WBBL, and the BBL. Both of these contributed to the Dream 11 reaching a new height.
7.Hari Menon
The idea of taking the grocery store to one’s door has worked wonders all around the world. With that, the issue of standing in long lines at the grocery store has been thrown out the window. Indians, too, now tend to do their grocery shopping online. Big Basket was founded by Hari Menon. With monthly revenue of over Rs. 150 crores, Big Basket has established itself as one of the Indian e-commerce industry’s heavyweights.
8.Ritesh Agarwal
The entrepreneurship path of Ritesh Agarwal is one of the most promising entrepreneur stories in India. After dropping out of college, he founded his first company, Oravel Stays, which was a budget hotel chain that offered bed and breakfast. And that elevated to OYO rooms when he learned that no other provider had a space for a budget traveller. OYO rooms began with just 11 rooms in a Gurgaon hotel and have since grown to become a destination for elite hotel stays with 65000 rooms in approximately 5500 properties across India. Ritesh Agarwal is now one of the youngest successful entrepreneurs in the country.