Forbes World's Billionaires list is out. The annual list ranks the richest people on the planet. The year 2018 rankings is topped by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
He is followed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who lost the top spot in the rankings for only the sixth time since the year 1995. The list of the 2,208 billionaires from across the world also has many names from India. We have picked 13 Indian Billionaires from the list, who owe (some part of it) their wealth to the technology industry.
Here's over to richest Indian 'tech' billionaires in the list
Mukesh Ambani
Net worth - $40.1 billion
Global ranking - 19
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is the richest Indian in the Forbes’ 2018 ‘World’s Billionaires’ list. Ambani has topped the list for 11th year in a row. His telecom company Reliance Jio has changed the contours of the Indian telecom segment, triggering a bruising price war.
Azim Premji
Net worth - $18.8 billion
Global ranking - 58
The second Indian on the list is Azim Premji, the founder and chairman of India's third-largest software company Wipro. Premji had to give up his studies at Stanford University to takeover the family's cooking oil business in 1966 after his father's sudden death. He later expanded the company into software business. With an innovation centre in Silicon Valley, Wipro focuses on developing new technologies and collaborating with startups.
Shiv Nadar
Net worth - $14.6 billion
Global ranking - 98
Next on the list is Shiv Nadar, the co-founder of India's fourth-largest information technology company HCL. Nadar is one of India's leading most-prominent philanthropists and has donated $662 million to his Shiv Nadar Foundation.
Sunil Mittal
Net worth - $8.8 billion
Global ranking - 176
Telecom baron Sunil Mittal is the next Indian billionaire on the list. Chairman of one the India's largest telecom company Bharti Airtel, with almost 400 million customers, Mittal also owns Airtel Payments Bank, a joint venture with Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Anil Ambani
Net worth - $2.7 billion
Global ranking - 887
The younger Ambani scion Anil Ambani, has an empire with interests in financial services, media and infrastructure. Anil Ambani recently agreed to sell his debt-laden Reliance Communication's wireless assets to Reliance Jio, owned by his brother Mukesh Ambani, for an estimated $3 billion.
Vinod & Anil Rai Gupta
Net worth - $2.2 billion
Global ranking - 1103
This mother and son duo run one of the India's largest electrical equipment company, Havells India. The company makes everything from electrical and lighting fixtures to fans, refrigerators and washing machines.
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