Ambani’s Wealth Beats Tech Giants Elon Musk and Google Founders
- Mukesh Ambani surpasses Musk, Brin, Page as Reliance surges
- Indian tycoon is now world’s No. 6 richest individual
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India’s richest man surged past Silicon Valley tech titan Elon Musk as well as Alphabet Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to become the world’s sixth-richest person.
The chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd., whose wealth surpassed Warren Buffett’s last week, is now worth $72.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Shares of the conglomerate have more than doubled from a low in March as its digital unit got billions in investments from companies including Facebook Inc., Silver Lake and, most recently, Qualcomm Inc.