He is the only Indian businessman on Forbes' list of the world's most powerful people. Reliance's Jio has earned a top-five spot in the country's telecommunication services since its public launch on 5 September 2016.Īs of 2016, Ambani was ranked 36 and has consistently held the title of India's richest person on Forbes magazine's list for the past ten years. Reliance Retail Ltd., another subsidiary, is also the largest retailer in India. The business also included products and services in the retail and telecommunications industries. By this time, it had already expanded so that it also dealt in refining and petrochemicals.

In 1981 he started to help his father Dhirubhai Ambani run their family business, Reliance Industries Limited. Sharpe and Man Mohan Sharma because they are 'the kind of professors who made you think out of the box.' Career Īmbani has been quoted as saying that he was influenced by his teachers William F. His father felt that real-life skills were harnessed through experiences and not by sitting in a classroom, so he called his son back to India from Stanford to take command of a yarn manufacturing project in his company. Īmbani later enrolled for an MBA at Stanford University but withdrew in 1980 to help his father build Reliance, which at the time was still a small but fast-growing enterprise. He then received a BE degree in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology. After his secondary schooling, he studied at St. EducationĪmbani attended the Hill Grange High School at Peddar Road, Mumbai, along with his brother and Anand Jain, who later became his close associate. Dhirubhai later purchased a 14-floor apartment block called 'Sea Wind' in Colaba, where, until recently, Ambani and his brother lived with their families on different floors. The family's financial status slightly improved when they moved to India but Ambani still lived in a communal society, used public transportation, and never received an allowance. His family lived in a modest two-bedroom apartment in Bhuleshwar, Mumbai until the 1970s. The latter was originally named 'Vimal' but later changed to 'Only Vimal'. He has a younger brother Anil Ambani and two sisters, Nina Bhadrashyam Kothari and Dipti Dattaraj Salgaonkar.Īmbani lived only briefly in Yemen because his father decided to move back to India in 1958 to start a trading business that focused on spices and textiles. Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani was born on 19 April 1957 in the British Crown colony of Aden (present-day Yemen) into a Gujarati Hindu family to Dhirubhai Ambani and Kokilaben Ambani.

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