Comments on: Amazing Indian Entrepreneurs

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2011 11:00:47 +0000

@Sirach. Thanks for your comment. The average age is for the entrepreneurs in the Billion$ Forbes list. If you look at the industries, these are mostly traditional ones (Real Estate, Commodities, etc.) except Software. In Software also, we have Infosys producing the 5 billionaires. We are yet to see many multi-billion dollar companies created in the newer industries such as Internet in India. Once this happens we will see more younger entrepreneurs in the list. As a testament to this, checkout Sameer Gehlaut (India Bulls founder) who was on the Forbes list at age 34 (in 2008):http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_Sameer-Gehlaut_WDNK.html

By: Sirach Mendes

Sirach Mendes — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:12:41 +0000

Nice Article Anand,Have been following your blog for a while and have not commented yetSoftware Billionares was one of the best stories for Indian market.One question why is the average age of Indian entreprenuers with huge net worth so high ? and why we dont see younger Indians make it to that list ?I think Deep Kalra would be expection to the above list as per my knowledge

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:03:53 +0000

Good suggestions Rishabh. Added them. Just to clarify, other than the list of entrepreneurs from the Forbes list, the rest of the people on my list are just successful entrepreneurs who I admire (irrespective of their net worth)

By: Rishabh Kaul

Rishabh Kaul — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:09:31 +0000

Another amazing entrepreneur that I really admire who should feature on the list, billionaire or not: Devi Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya. Truly revolutionized healthcare delivery.

By: Rishabh Kaul

Rishabh Kaul — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:06:31 +0000

I would surely add Romesh Wadhwani, who founded the Symphony Technology Group (and who sold his previous company to i2 for what was then the largest M&A in software history).And I hope that the list you came up with at the end doesn’t have 1B+ USD as a criteria, because I would faint if Vikram Akula is a billionaire (for obvious reasons) 🙂

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:48:18 +0000

Good one Satya. Will add to the list.

By: Satya

Satya — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:54:10 +0000

I admire Kishore Biyani of "Future Group" too. His networth is almost a $1Bn. Afaik, he is also a self-made entrepreneur.