- Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani is worth about $60 billion , making him the richest person in India and all of Asia.
- Forbes ranked the Ambanis the richest family in Asia in 2017.
- Ambani, the chairman and largest shareholder of oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries, is almost four times richer than the second-richest person in India .
- Ambani and his family live in a 27-story skyscraper in Mumbai that cost an estimated $1 billion to build, which would make it one of the most expensive homes anywhere in the world.
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9 mind-blowing facts that show just how wealthy Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in Asia, really is
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Mukesh Ambani has been India's richest person for 12 years in a row. He's also the richest person in all of Asia, according to both Forbes and Bloomberg.
The Indian businessman, the chairman and majority shareholder of $100 billion conglomerate Reliance Industries , is worth about $60 billion , making him the 14th-richest person in the world.
Ambani's wealth has more than doubled in the past 10 years, and he continued to grow richer in 2019 even as most of India's richest people lost money.
Here are nine mind-blowing facts that show just how wealthy Asia's richest man really is.
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