All about

Amazing Facts about Mukesh Ambani who Became the 6th Richest Person in the World Replacing the Co-Founder of Google, Larry Page and the Tech Giant, Elon Musk

amazing Facts about Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani is now the 6th richest person in the world surpassing Sergey Brin, Elon Musk and Larry Page.

Ambani’s empire has slowly shifted from e-commerce to becoming a tech giant with the help of steady growth seen in its Jio Platforms and Facebook interventions. The Reliance Industries is now not limited to businesses in oil and textiles but digital business in India. The second most populated country in the world has already seen a sharp rise in foreign investments due to incredible growth in the country economy, particularly from Silicon Valley and Google. Furthermore, Reliance is committed to accelerate its e-retail platforms and transfer its company to more consumer-based from an energy-producing company. This has indeed inflated the share price of the company more than INR 12 Lakh Crores. But, was his journey to success easy or bumpier than we see it today?

Mukesh Ambani family background

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani was born on 19th April 1957 in Yemen. His father Dhirubhai Ambani had four children and out of them, Mukesh Ambani is the youngest. Other siblings being Anil Ambani and sisters Nina Bhadrashyam Kothari and Dipti Dattaraj Salgaocar. Due to unstable political conditions in the Aden city of Yemen, the family shifted from Aden to Bhuleshwar (neighbour city of Mumbai) in the year 1958. They lived in a chawl in a two-bedroom rented flat. The same year, Dhirubhai and his cousins decided to establish Reliance Commercial Corporation that grew from a small commodity trading business to a giant business hub known as RIL.

Mukesh Ambani educational background

Mukesh Ambani holds a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bombay. He also pursued a master’s degree in Business Administration from Stanford University. In 1981, he left the program in between to join his family-owned business where he started working to diversify the Reliance Company to various fields. He ventured into many programs and fields such as communications, petrochemical, infrastructure, oil and gas and polyester fibre. His company became one of the most respected companies in the world in the year 2004. That year, PricewaterhouseCoopers ranked Reliance industries as the top professional leaders in the world.

Sad Demise of Mukesh Ambani father

In 2002, Mukesh Ambani’s father Dhirubhai Ambani passed away leaving behind Reliance industries in the hands of his two sons. The joint leadership of the company were held by the Ambani brothers, however, the family issues and ongoing feud between the two brothers made their mother Kokilaben Ambani split the assets of Reliance industries through non-competition agreement. This made Mukesh Ambani gain the control of oil, gas, petrochemical units of RIL under the name of Reliance Industries. The rest were taken by his elder brother Anil Ambani.

The rising stage of Mukesh Ambani

Although Mukesh Ambani has always been an active member of the RIL, after the splitting of the company assets between him and his brother, Mukesh Ambani guided his individual company to become the world’s largest petroleum refinery located in Jamnagar in the year 2010. The unit can alone produce more than 660,000 barrels of oil per day.

In 2006, he was chosen as the Cochair the India Economic Summit in the World Economic Forum. The WEF is an international organization that comprises some of the world’s prominent business leaders, policymakers, philanthropists, politicians, trade unionists and representatives of non-governmental firms who convey about development and important social issues. The very next year, Mukesh Ambani became the first rupee trillionaire in India.

In the year 2007, The Economic Times Magazine and the Press Trust of India announced Mukesh Ambani as the richest man in the world. The next year he created Mumbai Indians team in Indian Premier League team. He was again elected as a member of WEF in 2010.

In 2013, Mukesh Ambani made a collaborative venture with Bharti Airtel to set a digital infrastructure related to 4G in India. In the year 2014, he made a huge investment of INR 1.8 trillion across businesses and launched 4G broadband on 27th December 2015. 

The launch of Jio platforms was made in the year 2016 under its self-developed smartphones, naming it as ‘LYF’. The smartphone became the third largest selling smartphone in India that year. In September 2016, Jio was launched for commercial purposes.

Mukesh Ambani personal life

Mukesh Ambani married Nita Ambani in the year 1985. The couple has two sons named Anant and Akash Ambani and a daughter named Isha Ambani. Mukesh Ambani father had once visited the dance performance in which Nita Ambani had performed. Dhirubhai Ambani later arranged the marriage of the two.

Amazing facts about Mukesh Ambani House Antilia

Mukesh Ambani along with his family resides in a 27-storey private apartment in Mumbai. His apartment Antilia is worth $1 billion. Around 600 staff members are needed by the apartment maintenance which has 160 cars garage, three helipads, private movie theatre, fitness centre and swimming pool besides various other modern amenities.

Antilia is inspired by the mythical Atlantic island and is estimated to be the second most expensive private apartment in the world after the Buckingham Palace. This 400,000 square feet apartment is located in the Altamont Road in South Mumbai. The property is estimated to be 80,000-85,000 INR per square feet by real estate companies.

Mukesh Ambani’s apartment was designed by Perkins and Will, a Chicago based architects along with Australian based construction firm named Leighton Holdings who took charge of the building construction. Every floor of the building is of the same height as an average two storey apartment. Antilia can even survive an earthquake measuring 8 on a Richter scale.

Since Mukesh Ambani loves and needs speed, Antilia is all packed with six dedicated floors that keeps all his cars harboured safely. Among his latest cars collection, the most expensive one includes a 5 crore Maybach! Other than this, Antilia is also equipped with 9 high-speed elevators which are assigned to different floors.

Companies owned by Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Retail

The retail business segment owned by Mukesh Ambani comprises of various cutting-edge brands like Reliance Time Out, Reliance Fresh, Reliance AutoZone, Reliance Trends, Reliance Footprint, Reliance Home Kitchens, Reliance Mart, Reliance Jewel and various others.

Reliance Life Sciences

This venture of Mukesh Ambani conducts major operations related to industrial, medical and plant biotechnology. Some of the primary tasks performed by Reliance life sciences includes manufacturing and branding of pharmaceuticals, biofuels, plant and industrial biotechnology, biofuels, regenerative medicines and invention of novel therapies.

Reliance Logistics

This segment of the RIL involves in the buying and selling of products related to transportation, distribution, supply chain and warehousing. The company not only offers logistics support to the entire Reliance group but to third party companies as well.

Reliance Jio Info COMM Limited (RJIL)

Reliance JIo Info COMM, previously known as Infotel Broadband is an internet service provider company that has the license to provide users with 4G services. RJIL is currently the sixth-largest mobile network in the world with more than 306 million subscribers.

Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited

Mukesh Ambani holds 45.43% stakes in the shares of RIL which operates in the industrial infrastructure segment. The company connects various activities related to data processing and computer software besides setting of pipeline that carry petroleum from the Bharat Petroleum to Reliance petrochemical complex.

Network 18

This is a mass media company owned by Mukesh Ambani that has a diversified portfolio in digital platforms, mobile apps and television. The company has made joint ventures with History TV 18 and Viacom 18.

Reliance Solar

Reliance Solar is a subsidiary of Reliance which produces and sell energy systems to rural and remote areas in India. The company offers various products like home lighting solutions, water purifying systems, refrigeration system, solar lantern and many other related to solar energy.

Relicord

Relicord is another company owned by Mukesh Ambani which deals in collection and conservation of blood supply. The blood bank is taken care of by the Reliance Life Sciences and holds a licence by the Food and Drug Administration of India.

Some Amazing Facts about Mukesh Ambani

  • As known to all, Mukesh Ambani belongs to a Gujarati family, he has never touched or eaten any non-vegetarian food throughout his life.
  • He had never consumed a single drop of alcohol and till date follows his self-made rule to become strictly non-alcoholic.
  • Although being a billionaire and counted among world’ richest personalities, Mukesh Ambani dressing style is simple and ground to earth. His wardrobe collection includes everything from branded to non-branded clothes just like his father.
  • Mukesh Ambani is very passionate about his work and hence is the one who reaches his office early in the morning and stays there till midnight with his staff.
  • Mukesh Ambani is a family man and loves spending time with his family irrespective of the busy work schedule.
  • Among his incredible car collection, he owns some bulletproof cars.
  • The net worth of Mukesh Ambani is around $72.4 billion which makes him the richest man in India and Asia.
  • In 2017, popular Forbes magazine declared Mukesh Ambani as the richest family in Asia.
  • The chairman and managing director of RIL, Mukesh Ambani is the largest shareholder of Oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries.
  • Mukesh Ambani is four times richer than the second richest man in India.
  • Ambani’s home is the second most expensive home in the world.
  • In the past 10 years, Mukesh Ambani’s total worth is estimated to be doubled despite many influential business personalities lost their money during world economic crises.
  • Mukesh Ambani gets richer by $31,202 every minute.
  • His income in the year 2018 was 7.2 million more than the average annual salary combinedly in India.
  • Mukesh Ambani’s entire wealth is more than the entire GDP of Belarus. According to World Bank Data, in 2018 the GDP of Belarus was around $59.6 billion. It can be said that the net worth of Mukesh Ambani is roughly equal to the combined GDP of Botswana, Afghanistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Some of the influential friends of Mukesh Ambani includes Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and Hillary Clinton who had attended the marriage of Ambani’s children.
  • In 2020, Mukesh Ambani has been declared as the 6th richest person in the world.

Related posts

Asim Riaz: 12 Awesome Facts Fans Should Read!

Nehita Abraham

Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hai Actor Jeetu Gupta’s 19-year-old Son Passes Away

Prateeksha Singhal

WhatsApp- World’s Largest Messaging App Sues the Indian Government

Shweta Jhawar

Leave a Comment