Top Successful Entrepreneurs of India
1. Dhirubhai Ambani
Born on 28th December 1932, his entrepreneurial career started by selling “bhajias” to pilgrims over weekends, from this job he grew so high over years that he built India’s largest private sector company. Over time his business diversified into a petrochemical company with stakes and interests in FMCG, IT, Communication, logistics and power. Reliance holds the distinction of being the first Indian company to be in the Forbes 500 list.
2. JRD Tata
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata or JRD Tata as many know him has the honor of being India’s first commercial pilot. He was the chairman of Tata& sons for 50 long years, He launched Air India which is the India’s first international airline. He was born on July 1904 in Paris and joined Tata & sons in 1950 as an unpaid apprentice, but his interest in flying made him the first Indian pilot and later he played a crucial role in giving wings to India by building the TATA Airlines which ultimately became Air India. His steady growth made him the chairman of TATA & Sons in the year 1938. In this year the company owned 14 enterprises and exactly 50 years later it grew to around 95 enterprises, such was the leadership of JRD Tata.
3. Narayana Murthy
More commonly known as the Father of Indian IT industry, Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy or shortly referred as Narayana Murthy was born on 20th August 1946 in Bangalore Karnataka India. He is an Indian IT industrialist and one of the six co-founders of Infosys, a MNC that provides services in BPO operations, business consultancy, engineering and technology. Murthy pursued his electrical engineering at National institute of Engineering, University of Mysore and he obtained his M.Tech from the Indian Institute of technology Kanpur. He founded Infosys in 1981 and served as its CEO till 2002, and then as the chairman from 2002-2011.
4. Azim Premji
Known as the Bill Gates of India, Azim Premji is the chairman of the Wipro Technologies which is one of the top software companies in India. He was born on 24th July 1945 and at a very young age he took over the reins of his family business in 1966. He became the chairman of western Indian vegetable products, and initially many doubted his ability as a leader, but under him Wipro started providing world class IT and BPO services and today Wipro Technologies is the largest independent R&D service provider in India.
5. Jamshetji Tata
Born on 3rd march 1839, He was the founder of TATA group of companies. This company now employees more than 4 lakhs people and have revenue which boasts of USD 38 million. This is the only Indian company that had its branches almost all over Asia that include Hong-Kong, Japan and China by the year 1863.It all started with a cotton mill and he expanded it over years and was successful in setting up a World class hotel, Iron-steel plant, science Institutes, Hydroelectric plant and many more as the list goes on.