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Gautam Adani
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Gautam Adani (born June 24, 1962 in Ahmedabad, India) is an Indian businessman.
He is the chairman of the Adani Group, a leading trading and export company of India.
On November 16, 2007, Forbes magazine announced that Adani was the 13th richest
person in India with a personal wealth of US$6.7 billion, making him the first billionaire
from the city of Ahmedabad
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Gautam Adani was born on June 24, 1962, to Shantilal and Shantaben Adani. He had
seven siblings. Adani's parents had migrated from the town of Tharad in northern
Gujarat in search of livelihood. Adani was born in the Seth ni Pol are located in
Ratanpol in Ahmedabad. He set out for Mumbai to make a living with only a few hundred
rupees at a young age of 18 only.He studied at the Seth C. N. Vidyalya school in
Ahmedabad and later on at Gujarat University. Adani is University dropout , he studied
till second year for his Bachelor's Degree in Commerce. He worked in Mumbai as a
diamond sorter at Mahindra Bros. |
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After working there for two years, Adani, 20 at the time, set up his own diamond
brokerage outfit at Zaveri Bazaar and made his first lakh.In 1981, 1 year later, his elder brother Mansukhbhai, bought a plastics unit in Ahmedabad and asked Gautam
to run it. This marked the beginning of Adani's foray into global trading by beginning
to import polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a key raw material for manufacturing plastics.
After the economic liberalisation, the import duty on various goods was slashed,
and profits of Adani Exports, then his flagship company, grew immensely.
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Adani is married to Priti Adani. She is a dentist and heads the Adani Foundation,
of which she is a managing trustee. They have 2 sons. Karan Adani, 20, is pursuing
his BS in Management from Purdue University, USA. Jeet Adani, their younger son
is 10 years old. Gautam Adani owns 2 private jets - a Beechcraft jet purchased in
2005 and a Hawker purchased in 2007.
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Dhirubhai Ambani
Gautam Adani |