Gautam Adani was born in 1962 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to a textile merchant family. He dropped out of university to pursue business ventures. He gained experience in diamond trading and polymer imports before founding Adani Enterprises in 1988. The company grew with India's economic liberalization, expanding into various trading businesses. In 1995, Adani received a contract to manage Mundra Port, which is now the largest private port in India. He has since expanded the Adani Group into various infrastructure sectors such as power generation, renewable energy, and coal mining.

4. ▪Gautam Adani was born on 24 June
1962 in a Jain family to Shantilal
and Shanti Adani
in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
▪He has 7 siblings .
▪ His father was a textile merchant.
▪He was educated at Sheth
Chimanlal Nagindas Vidyalaya
school in Ahmedabad.
▪He enrolled in a bachelor's degree
in commerce at Gujarat University,
but dropped out after the second
year.
▪Adani was keen on business, but
not his father's textile business.

5. In 1978, as a teenager, Adani moved to Mumbai to work
as a diamond sorter for Mahendra Brothers. He worked
there for 2-3 years before establishing his own
diamond brokerage firm at Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai.
In 1981, his elder brother MansukhbhaiAdani
bought a plastics unit in Ahmedabad and invited
him to manage the operations. This venture turned
out to be Adani's gateway to global trading
through polyvinyl chloride (PVC) imports.
In 1985, he started importing primary
polymers for small-scale industries. In 1988,
Adani establishedAdani Exports Limited,
now known as Adani Enterprises Limited –
the holding company of the Adani Group.
Originally, the company dealt in agricultural
and power commodities.

6. In 1991, the economic liberalization policies turned
out to be favorable for his company and he started
expanding the businesses into trading of metals,
textiles, and agro products.[
In 1994, the Government of Gujarat announced
managerial outsourcing of the mundra Port and in
1995, Adani got the contract.
In 1995, he set up the first jetty. Originally operated by Mundra Port
& Special Economic Zone, the operations were transferred to Adani
Ports & SEZ Limited (APSEZ). Today, the company is the largest
private multi-port operator. Mundra Port is the largest private sector
port in India, with the capacity of handling close to 210 million tons
of cargo per annum

7. In 1996, the power
business arm of the
Adani Group – Adani
Power Limited was
founded by Adani.
Adani Power holds
thermal power plants
with a capacity of 4620
MW, the largest private
thermal power
producer of the
country.[
In 2006, Adani
entered the Power
generation
business. From
2009 to 2012, he
acquired Abbot
Point Port in
Australia and
Carmichael Coal
in Queensland.
In May 2020,
Adani won the
world's largest
solar bid by
the Solar Energy
Corporation of
India (SECI)
worth $6 billion.
The 8000 MW
photovoltaic
power plant
project will be
taken up
by Adani Green;
and Adani Solar
will establish
2000MW of
additional solar
cell and module
manufacturing
capacity

8. ❑ An awesome visionary:
During his school days, Adani visited
Gujarat’s Kandla Port. On that day,
he decided he would also build
something like that in his life or even
bigger than that. From that day, he
chased his dream which came true in
a bigger dimension.

9. ❑ He paved his own road to growth:
Gautam Adani was born in a family owning a textile
business. But, he was never interested in his family
business and made his first million within three
years of his Mumbai life as a diamond broker. Adani
was a self-made millionaire at the age of 20.
❑Sealed a 6,000 crore deal within 100 hours:
With his amazing negotiation skills, he obtained the
Udupi Thermal Power Plant in a 6,000 crore rupees
deal. The entire negotiation process lasted for not
more than 100 hours.

10. ❑ His company is the biggest private power producer
in the country:
Adani power limited is the power business of the
Adani Group that owns a number of thermal power
plants that produce up to 4620 MW. His company is
the largest private power producer and the largest
solar power producer in the country.
❑ His group ranks high in the infrastructure segment:
Adani Group is ranked as the country’s most trusted
infrastructure brand in “The Brand Trust Report
2015”.

11. ❑ He works with a mantra:
In an interview with the press people, he said that he
works with a mantra that steered his way towards
success. Throughout his entire life, he focused on trying
rather than getting obsessed with the results.