{"id":517865,"date":"2022-08-30T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517865"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T04:48:29","slug":"gautam-adani-becomes-worlds-third-richest-person-first-asian-to-do-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gautam-adani-becomes-worlds-third-richest-person-first-asian-to-do-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Adani becomes world&#8217;s third-richest person, first Asian to do so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few outside of India had heard of Gautam Adani just a few years ago. But the Indian businessman, a college dropout who first tried his luck as a diamond trader before turning to coal, this week became the world\u2019s third-richest person. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time an Asian person has broken into the top three of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index &#8212; fellow citizen Mukesh Ambani and China\u2019s Jack Ma never made it that far. With a $137.4 billion fortune, Adani has overtaken France\u2019s Bernard Arnault and now trails just Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos of the US in the ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Adani, 60, has spent the past few years expanding his coal-to-ports conglomerate, venturing into everything from data centers to cement, media and alumina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few outside of India had heard of Gautam Adani just a few years ago. But the Indian businessman, a college dropout who first tried his luck as a diamond trader before turning to coal, this week became the world\u2019s third-richest person. It\u2019s the first time an Asian person has broken into the top three of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index &#8212; fellow citizen Mukesh Ambani and China\u2019s Jack Ma never made it that far. With a $137.4 billion fortune, Adani has overtaken France\u2019s Bernard Arnault and now trails just Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos of the US in the ranking. Adani, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}