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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: Dhirubhai Ambani, Lakshmi Mittal, Shiv Nadar, Anil Ambani, N. R. Narayana Murthy, Mukesh Ambani, Azim Premji, Vijay Mallya, Anand Jain, Sunil Mittal, Nandan Nilekani, Aditya Vikram Birla, Kalanithi Maran, Prathap C. Reddy, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Gautam Thapar, B. R. Shetty, Naresh Goyal, Brijmohan Lall Munjal, Gautam Singhania, Anu Aga, Savitri Jindal, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Manu Chhabria, Anil Agarwal, Micky Jagtiani, Kushal Pal Singh, Kishore Biyani, Sanjay Kirloskar, Pallonji Mistry, Yusuf Hamied, Subhash Chandra, Rahul Bajaj, Tulsi Tanti, Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao, Ramesh Chandra, Sameer Gehlaut, Venugopal Dhoot, Gautam Adani, Rajan Raheja, Adi Godrej, Nimesh Kampani, Indu Jain, List of Indians by net worth, Shashi Kiran Shetty, Uday Kotak, Dilip Shanghvi, Vinod Goenka. Excerpt: Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani (Gujarati: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿) also known as Dhirubhai, (28 December 1932 ¿ 6 July 2002) was an Indian business magnate and entrepreneur who founded Reliance Industries, a petrochemicals, communications, power, and textiles conglomerate and the only privately owned Indian company in the Fortune 500. Ambani took his company public in 1977. Dhirubhai has been one among the select Forbes billionaires and has also figured in the Sunday Times list of top 50 businessmen in Asia. His life has often been referred to as a true "rags to riches" story. Dhirubhai started off as a small time worker with Arab merchants in the 1950s and moved to Mumbai in 1958 to start his own business in spices. After making modest profits, he moved into textiles and opened his mill near Ahmedabad. Dhirubhai founded Reliance Industries in 1958 and today the company, with over 85,000 employees, provides almost 5% of the Central Government's total tax revenue. Ambani was credited with introducing the stock market to the average investor, and thousands of investors attended the Reliance annual general meetings, which were sometimes held in a football stadium, with millions more watching on television. In 1986 after a heart attack he handed over Reliance Group to his sons Mukesh and Anil. After his death, the group was split into Reliance Industries, headed by Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (Reliance ADAG), led by Anil Ambani. He was born into a Gujarati family. Hirachand Gordhandhas Ambani was a village school teacher with little income. Hirachand and Jamnaben had two daughters - Trilochanaben and Jasuben and three sons - Ramnikbhai, Dhirubhai and Natubhai. Dhirubhai was the second son. Dhirubhai was precocious and highly intelligent. He was also highly impatient of the oppressive grinding mill of the school classroom. He chose work which used his physical ability to the maximum rather than cramming school lessons. When Jamnaben once asked Dhirubhai and