If Gautam Adani was a country, he would have been the 64th largest economy in terms of nominal GDP, based of 2021 IMF estimates, ahead of Puerto Rico and Ecuador
Gautam Adani, a first-generation entrepreneur who dropped out of college, started as a diamond trader in Mumbai and made most of his fortune in ports, renewable energy, and logistics. The Bloomberg report has taken into account the USD 49 billion surge in Adani's wealth, which had helped put him ahead of billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
Gautam Adani Emerges as the World s Second Richest Businessman: Gautam Adani is now the second richest person of the world according to the Forbes. He surpassed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Louis Vuitton s Bernard Arnault.
According to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, Adani and his family’s net worth as of early Friday stood at $155.4 billion against Arnault’s $155.2 billion.
The top 10 of India’s Richest control ₹31.71 lakh crore ($397 billion) of wealth among the $832 billion (₹66.36 lakh crore) managed by 142 dollar billionaires.