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Billionaires 30 Under 30

SECURITY

INDIA’S

100 RICHEST GUARDS
22 It was a challenging
year for India’s Patrolling the digital universe with the
wealthiest. Their Forbes 30 Under 30, in 30 words or less.
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N dropped 8%, to $452
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R fared well. Mukesh COFOUNDER, HYPR | 29
T Ambani came in
N No one can remember
O at No. 1 for the dozens of passwords,
R 12th straight year.
F so this Georgian
Infrastructure tycoon
Gautam Adani immigrant is replacing
jumped eight spots to TAP FOR them with biometrics

No. 2; banker Uday like fingerprints. Hypr
Kotak moved into the TEACHER boasts 25 million

top five for the first users and Samsung,
time. Six newcomers MasterCard, T-Mobile,
made the list as well. The son of teachers, Byju Raveendran realized Aetna as clients.
he had a knack for education as an eighth-grade

math whiz tutoring 11th- and 12th-graders
1. MUKESH AMBANI ahead of their exams. Today, at 38, he (along
$51.4 bil S with his family) is worth $1.9 billion, thanks to Robert Lee
Oil and gas, his fast-growing edtech company, Byju’s. The FOUNDER, DRAGOS
petrochemicals startup, which he founded in 2006 and which SECURITY | 30

2. GAUTAM ADANI he says is profitable, raised $150 million earlier Lee is a former
$15.7 bil S this year in a funding round that valued the NSA spook who
Infrastructure business at $5.5 billion. Altogether, it has raised specializes in
roughly $1 billion—more than any other edtech protecting the cyber-
3. HINDUJA FAMILY infrastructure of
startup worldwide—from investors such as
$15.6 bil T critical targets like
Mark Zuckerberg’s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,

Diversified power plants and oil
U.S. venture firm Sequoia and China’s internet-

4. PALLONJI MISTRY services giant Tencent. Byju’s already has 2.8 refineries. Backed
$15 bil T million paying K–12 students signed up for by $55 million in
Construction its math-and-science tutoring app; in June, it venture capital.
5. UDAY KOTAK launched a cobranded app with Disney aimed
$14.8 bil S at India’s 6- to 8-year-olds. Says Raveendran
Banking of his company: “It’s a passion which ended up
becoming a business.” INDIA BY NAAZNEEN KARMALI (INTRO) AND ANU RAGHUNATHAN (RICHEST BOX). 30 UNDER 30 BY ALEXANDRA WILSON

Unlike on the Forbes Billionaires list, the net worths of India’s 100 Richest include shares held
by extended family members.
Public fortunes were calculated based on stock prices and exchange rates as of September 27.

The Haute List
BILLIONAIRE BUNGALOW GAYATRI GANJU FOR FORBES ASIA; ILLUSTRATIONS BY AARON SACCO

The late Paul Allen had many homes,
including this 21,000-square-foot Alexandre Rebert
mansion with seven bedrooms and
13 bathrooms in Atherton, California— COFOUNDER, FORALLSECURE | 29
recently listed for $41.5 million. Among This “white-hat” hacker and his cohorts get
your neighbors will be Sergey Brin and
Meg Whitman; perhaps Steph Curry paid to try to break into the networks of
will come over to shoot hoops. And, behemoths like the Defense Department
yes, it has lots of windows.
in order to pinpoint security flaws.

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