Success stories in the business world often highlight the amazing struggle that drives a person toward their goals. An exemplary illustration of this is the journey of Anil Agarwal, an Indian business entrepreneur, who, through perseverance and determination, attained his objective after 9 business endeavours.
Anil Agarwal is the founder and chairman of Vedanta, an amazing philanthropist who has pledged to donate 75% of his wealth to charity. Everything started when Anil left his father’s aluminium conductor manufacturing company in 1976 moved to Mumbai as a scrap dealer and built an empire in copper, zinc, aluminium, and iron ore.
Anil was brought up in a Marwari family in Patna, where he was born. At the age of 19, he decided to expand his father’s business and travelled to Mumbai in search of career opportunities. He attended Miller High School but left school at the age of 15 to work for his father.
The mining industry veteran started as a scrap dealer in his teens in the 1970s. “I spent my 20s and 30s looking at others struggling and wondering when I would get there one day and most importantly, how am I, after 9 failed businesses and years of depression.” My first successful start-up,” he said while addressing Cambridge students.
In 2003, he became the first person in India to list his business on the London Stock Exchange. The market cap of his company Vedanta is Rs. 99484 crores, and currently, his net worth is Rs. 16713 crores. His continuous hard work and self-confidence took him to new heights. He showed amazing vision and courage in business matters. There was respect for possibilities in his eyes and he considered every possible difficulty as a part of his life.
The total wealth of Agarwal and his family is US$2.01 billion. Agarwal is also very active on social media as he keeps sharing such posts which are quite inspiring for his followers.
