Ten Richest Men in the world (2022)
8. Gautam Adani
Age: 59
Residence: Gurgaon, India
Founder and Chair: Adani Group
Net Worth: $98.1 billion
Adani Enterprises, Power. and Transmissions Ownership Stakes: 75% each ($51.1 billion)
Other Assets: 65% of Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone ($11.3 billion public asset), 61% of Adani Green Energy ($23.1 billion public asset), 37% of Adani Total Gas ($12.7 billion public asset)
In March 2022, Adani Group founder Gautam Adani passed Mukesh Ambani to become Asia’s richest person. Adani holds significant stakes in six important Indian companies through his ownership of the Adani Group, including a 75% stake in Adani Enterprises, Adani Power, and Adani Transmissions, a 65% stake in Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone, a 6% stake in Adani Green Energy, and a 37% stake in Adani Total Gas.
The Adani Group’s portfolio companies have a combined market value of $174 billion (as of June 1, 2022). Adani Power’s entry into the power generation industry began in 2009. In 1988, Adani established Adani Enterprises to import and export goods. His business received approval in 1994 to build a harbor facility at Mundra Port, which is now India’s biggest private port.
Adani left college early and previously worked in the diamond industry. Adani is currently India’s largest port operator, producer of privately held thermal coal, and trader of coal. He acquired a 74 percent stake in Mumbai International Airport, India’s second busiest airport, in 2020. In 1997, the billionaire was abducted and held for ransom. While the Taj hotel in Mumbai was under attack in 2008, Adani was there as well.
7. Sergey Brin
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Age: 48
Residence: California
Co-founder and Board Member: Alphabet (GOOG)
Net Worth: $99.1 billion
Alphabet Ownership Stake: 6% ($84.4 billion total)
Other Assets: $14.8 billion in cash
Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Russia, and immigrated to the United States in 1979 when he was 6 years old. Larry Page and Brin co-founded Google in 1998, and when Eric Schmidt became the company’s CEO in 2001, Brin was named president of technology. He held the same position at Google after the Alphabet holding company was founded in 2015 before resigning in 2019 to make room for Sundar Pichai to become CEO.
In addition to its dominant internet search engine, Google provides a number of online tools and services, collectively referred to as Google Workspace, in addition to its dominant internet search engine. These include Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Meet, Google Chat, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, among others.
Additionally, Google sells a range of electronic products, such as the Stadia gaming platform, Nest smart home products, and Pixel smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
Brin devoted a significant portion of 2019 to X, Alphabet’s research division that created ground-breaking products like the self-driving Waymo cars and the smart glasses Google Glass.
He has also partnered with The Michael J. Fox Foundation to donate millions of dollars to Parkinson’s disease research.
