Mukesh Ambani Age, Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Mukesh Ambani

• Does Mukesh Ambani smoke?: No

• Does Mukesh Ambani drink alcohol?: No

• He was born in a lower-middle-class family to Kokilaben and Dhirubhai Ambani.

• He lived in a two-bedroom apartment along with his parents and siblings in a modest area in Mumbai.

• He loved hockey in his schooldays.

• Anand Jain, Adi Godrej, and Anand Mahindra were his schoolmates and are some of his best friends.

• At the age of 17 or 18, his father made him a Board Member.

• He is considered as a nervous public speaker.

• He discontinued his MBA from Stanford University in 1980 as his father called him to join him in establishing a PFY manufacturing plant.

• He established the world’s largest refinery on 14 July 1999 at Jamnagar in Gujarat.
  

  Jamnagar Refinery

• In 2005, Reliance was divided between Mukesh Ambani and his younger brother Anil Ambani after three years of the death of their father.

• He started a super-market chain- Reliance Fresh in 2006, and by 2014, it grew to more than 700 stores throughout India.
  

  A Reliance Fresh Outlet

• He loves to wear a white shirt and dark trousers with a tie on most of the occasions.

• He loves branded cars and has a huge collection of them. His favorite car is Maybach.
  

  Mukesh Ambani’s Maybach Car

• He has a collection of Private Jet planes and has gifted an Airbus to his wife on her 44th birthday.

• He owns world’s most expensive house- Antilia (27 story house in South Mumbai) worth $1 billion with 600 staffs.
  

  Mukesh Ambani’s house Antilia

• He is considered the richest Indian in the world.

• He owns a vanity van worth more than 25 Crores.
  

  Mukesh Ambani’s Vanity Van

• During an interview, he revealed that he never carries cash or credit cards as somebody always paid for him. He said, “Money has never meant much to me.. I abhor the labels and the titles that all of you refer to me.”

• On 22 April 2020, he became the richest person in Asia after a deal with Mark Zuckerberg‘s Facebook Inc. that bought about 10% of Jio platforms. With a net worth of $49.2 billion, he surpassed China’s Jack Ma as Asia’s richest person. ^[2]The Economic Times