This document profiles 10 successful Indian entrepreneurs and provides brief summaries of their careers and companies. It begins with Dhirubhai Ambani who started Reliance Industries by selling religious goods and expanded into various industries. Next it discusses JRD Tata who built Tata Airlines (now Air India) and led the Tata Group conglomerate. The third profile is Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy who started the IT company with a small investment. The document then briefly outlines the careers and companies of Shiv Nadar (HCL), Lakshmi Mittal (ArcelorMittal), GD Birla (Birla Group), Dilip Shanghvi (Sun Pharmaceuticals

1. ZAKIRA BEGUM. A, Asst. Professor
Department of Business Administration (Shift-II)
A VIEW ON SUCCESSFUL
ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA

2. 1. DHIRUBHAI AMBANI
RELIANCE INDUSTRIES
Dhirubhai Ambani is an
Indian Businessman
who started out humbly
by selling out religious
pilgrims.
His business soon
grew, and he expanded
and diversified into
industries including
telecommunications,
power generation,
information technology,
consumer goods, and
logistics.

3. 2. JEHANGIR RATANJI
DADABHOY TATA
TATA GROUP
He was working for the family
business. Then, he set out on
his own and built TATA
Airlines, which ultimately
became the modern Air India.
By the time of JRD Tata's
death, TATA owned nearly 100
different businesses across
many industries. Notably, his
automobile venture, Tata
Motors, produces economical
automobiles that nearly all
working Indians can afford to
own.

4. 3. NAGAVARA RAMARAO NARAYANA
MURTHY
INFOSYS
He is as an Indian
entrepreneur who co-
founded IT giant Infosys
with an initial investment of
10,000 rupees, or just a few
hundred dollars in today's
terms.
With a net worth of $2.5
billion, he is often referred to
as the father of the Indian IT
industry, serving as CEO of
Infosys from 1981 until
2002, and then its chairman
until 2011. Infosys currently
has a market capitalization

5. 4. SHIV NADAR
HCL INFOSYSTEM
He founded HCL in 1976
with an investment of a few
thousand dollars, selling
calculators and
microcomputers. HCL
soon expanded to Singapore
and the far east, generating
over 1 million rupees in
sales not long after its
expansion. HCL has
continued to grow, making
Nadar a billionaire worth
over $16.2 billion.

6. 5. LAKSHMI NIWAS MITTAL
ARCELOR MITTAL
He is an Indian entrepreneur
who began his career
working for his father's steel
business. He later set out on
his own, due to family
infighting and created what
is now one of the largest
steelmakers in the world,
ArcelorMittal (MT).
ArcelorMittal currently has a
market capitalization of
nearly $18 billion. Mittal
himself is worth nearly $12.3
billion

7. 6. GHANSHYAM DAS BIRLA
BIRLA GROUP
He is a well-known Indian
businessman who started his
first company in the early
1900s operating a cotton
and textile mill. By 1919, Birla's
businesses also included
significant paper and sugar
production. By the time he
died, Birla Group was a multi-
sector global conglomerate.
His great-grandson Kumar
Mangalam Birla, 52, now runs
the company and commands a
net worth of $9.9 billion.

8. 7. DILIP SHANGHVI
SUN PHARMACEUTICALS
He started Sun
Pharmaceuticals in 1982 with
a meager 10,000 rupee
investment, or approximately
$200. As the son of a
pharmaceutical distributor,
Shanghvi knew what he was
doing. Today, through gradual
development and a series of
acquisitions, that investment
has grown to a value of nearly
2 trillion rupees, making Sun
India's largest pharmaceutical
company. Today, Shanghvi
has a net worth of around $7.7
billion

9. 8. AZIM PREMJI
WIPRO
He is worth an estimated
$7.2 billion and is the
chairman of Wipro
Industries (WIT), a
diversified software and
technology company that
many have compared
to Microsoft. Premji is
sometimes referred to
as India's Bill Gates as a
result, alongside his
informal title as "czar" of the
Indian IT industry

10. 9. MUKESH JAGTIANI
LANDMARK
Mukesh "Micky" Jagtiani, is an
Indian-Emirati businessman
who has spent most of his life
outside of India. While he was
educated in Mumbai and
Beirut, he moved to London for
accounting school, before
dropping out. Soon, starting
his first company while driving
a taxi, his company eventually
grew into the retail and real
estate giant Landmark, now
based out of Dubai.

11. 10. ARDESHIR GODREJ
GODREJ GROUP
It is a diversified
conglomerate with
interests in real estate,
consumer products,
security, household
appliances, and
industrial tools.
Godrej Group was
founded with a 3,000-
rupee investment, and
the Godrej companies
have revenues of over
$4.1 billion today.

12. CONCLUSION
India has a long tradition of
entrepreneurship, but with its own
distinct flavor. Rather than founding
technology firms, many Indian
entrepreneurs came from hard-working,
humble beginnings and created
conglomerates that were passed down
from generation to generation as family
businesses. But that's not to say that
future Indian entrepreneurs won't focus
on technology and help drive India's