India's Gautam Adani has joined what is probably the most elite club in the world. The infrastructure tycoon's wealth hit $100 billion over the weekend, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the richest person in Asia.
The infrastructure tycoon's wealth hit $100 billion over the weekend, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the richest person in Asia. He joins nine other men in the centibillionaires club, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett. French businessman Bernard Arnault — the chairman of luxury goods group LVMH — and Adani are the only non-Americans with fortunes worth at least $100 billion.
India's billionaires got richer while coronavirus pushed millions of vulnerable people into povertyThe 59-year-old founder of the Adani Group controls companies ranging from ports and aerospace to thermal energy and coal, and has seen his fortune soar by nearly $90 billion over the last two years.
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