India’s story of development is being written by various forces toiling day and night, one such force is the youth of the nation who is spearheading the challenges with its innovative business models. Today India is proud of its young self made billionaires who made their dreams come true at a very young age and at the same time emerged as the source of inspiration for the youth of the nation.
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With the adoption of latest technology, the transforming Indian economy is witnessing an upsurge in the list of India’s youngest billionaire who are ready to scale up their business on the global level. Below is the list of top 10 youngest such self-made Indian billionaires who had inspired the nation with their innovative business models and are approaching success to move on from local to global market.
India’s Top 10 Young Self Made Billionaires
- Byju Raveendran
- Age of Byju Raveendran– Age 38
- Net Worth of Byju Raveendran– ₹24,300 Cr
- Byju Raveendran is ranked first in the list of such youngest billionaire in India. Byju Raveendran is a software engineer based in Bangalore.
- Byju Raveendran is the founder of BYJU, the most popular online learning platform in India. He launched Byju’s-The Learning App in 2015.
- His company Byju is the largest company in Asia in the field of education. His company is now worth $5.5 billion and Shah Rukh Khan is its brand ambassador.
- As per reports, byju’s learning app is used by around 30 million students in India alone.
- Nitin Kamath and Nikhil Kamath
- Age of Nithin Kamath– 40
- Age of Nikhil Kamath– 34
- Net Worth of Nithin Kamath and Nikhil Kamath – Rs 24,000 crore
- Nitin Kamath and Nikhil Kamath are second in the list of India’s young self-made billionaires. Nitin Kamath, 40, and Nikhil Kamath, 34, founded the online share trading platform, Zerodha, in the year 2010.
- At present it is the largest share trading platform in India by number of clients.
- The share broking charges have come down significantly since the entry of Zerodha into the stock broking business.
- Zerodha today ranks as India’s Top Online Stocks and Commodities B Rockrage with over one million individuals connected to its Zerodha Kite and Zerodha Coin platforms.
- Divyank Turakhia
- Age of Divyank Turakhia– 38
- Net Worth of Divyank Turakhia– ₹14,000 Cr
- Divyank Turakhia is at the third position in the list of India’s youngest young self-made billionaires. Divyank Turakhia is the co-founder of Media.net, which was eventually bought by a group of Chinese companies in 2016 for US$900 billion.
- Amod Malviya
- Age of Amod Malaviya– 38
- Net Worth of Amod Malviya– ₹13,100 Cr
- Amod Malviya is ranked fourth in the list of India’s young self-made billionaires. Amod Malviya is the co-founder of UDAAN, India’s first indigenous business-to-business (B2B) marketplace company.
- With 100 million enterprises going online with Udaan, this entrepreneur and his team have given Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India a new way of doing business.
- Udaan was launched in 2016 by Amod Malviya and his team, a software engineer by qualification.
- Vaibhav Gupta
- Age of Vaibhav Gupta– 38
- Net Worth of Vaibhav Gupta– ₹13,100 Crore
- Vaibhav Gupta is ranked fifth in the list of India’s young self-made billionaires. Vaibhav Gupta is the second co-founder of UDAAN. Vaibhav Gupta is also a software engineer by qualification.
- Sujeet Kumar
- Age of Sujeet Kumar– 39
- Net Worth of Sujeet Kumar– ₹13,100 Crore
- Sujit Kumar is ranked sixth in the list of India’s young self-made billionaires. Sujeet Kumar is the third co-founder of Udaan. His efforts to get lots of foreign funding for India’s first online marketplace have proved crucial for Udaan. He is also a software engineer by qualification.
- Sachin Bansal
- Age of Sachin Bansal– Age 37
- Net Worth of Sachin Bansal– Rs 8,848 crore
- Sachin Bansal is ranked seventh in the list of India’s young self-made billionaires. Sachin Bansal is the founder of Flipkart. He founded Flipkart in 2007. Sachin Bansal and his partner Binny started Flipkart with a two bedroom apartment in Bangalore, today they have a net worth of round Rs 8,848 crore.
- Ritesh Agarwal
- Age of Ritesh Agarwal– Age 38
- Net Worth of Ritesh Agarwal– Rs. 7,253 crores
- Ritesh Agarwal is ranked eighth in the list of India’s young self-made billionaires. Ritesh Agarwal is the founder of New Delhi-based hotel and accommodation aggregator ‘OYO’. In 2013, he founded ‘OYO‘, which within a few years became a giant in the field of hospitality.
- The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the tourism and hospitality sector globally, and OYO has also been no exception. Although Ritesh Agarwal’s wealth has declined by 40%, he is still one of the top 10 youngest young self-made billionaire Indians with a net worth of Rs 7,253 crore.
- Bhavish Agarwal
- Age of Bhavish Agarwal– 34
- Net Worth of Bhavish Agarwal– ₹3,500 Cr
- Bhavish Aggarwal is ranked ninth in the list of India’s young self-made billionaires. Most of you must have used the services of Ola Cabs, a startup started by Bhavish Agarwal, a resident of Bangalore.
- Ola Cabs was established in 2010 and is the largest cab service provider in India.
- Deepak Garg
- Age of Deepak Garg– 39
- Net Worth of Deepak Garg– ₹3,200 Crore
- Deepak Garg is ranked tenth in the list of India’s youngest young self-made billionaires. Deepak Garg is the co-founder and CEO of logistics company Rivigo. In September 2019, KB Global invested Rs 35 crore in Rivigo at a valuation of Rs 7,593 crore, and Rivigo entered the Hurun India Unicorn Index 2020.