Four Indian American entrepreneurs among U.S. Billionaires |
Among the Indian Americans on the list were Rakesh Gangwal, Vinod Khosla, Niraj Shah and Kavitark Ram Shriram.Gangwal, with $2.3 billion, was the top Indian American on the list at No. 354. The airline veteran Gangwal made his fortune from InterGlobe Aviation, the parent outfit of budget airline IndiGo, India`s largest by market share. Gangwal started his airline career with United Airlines in 1984 and went on to run US Airways Group as its chief executive and chairman. Gangwal, 65, co-founded IndiGo, headquartered outside Delhi, with pal Rahul Bhatia (also a billionaire) in 2006 with one aircraft. The Miami resident owns close to 37 percent of the company and now serves as a board member. The India-born mechanical engineer studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, before getting his M.B.A. at Wharton.Khosla, Shah and Shriram all came in at No. 368 on the list with a worth of $2.2 billion.Khosla, 63, is the founder of Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and a member of the 2018 Midas List. His firm, Khosla Ventures, invests in experimental technologies such as biomedicine and robotics.Khosla co-founded computer hardware firm Sun Microsystems in 1982 with Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy and Scott McNealy.
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