- Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s twin children Isha and Akash, and edtech startup Byju’s founder Byju Raveendran are among the Indians who have debuted on Fortune’s ‘40 Under 40’ list of influential people around the globe.
- This year’s list includes 40 influential people under 40 years of age in five categories — finance, technology, healthcare, government and politics, and media and entertainment.
- In the technology list, Isha and Akash Ambani feature with Byju Raveendran.
- Recently, Mr. Akash and Ms. Isha helped launch JioMart, a venture that aims to challenge Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart for command of India’s massive and fast-growing online shopping market.
- Regarding Mr. Biju, Fortune said he has shown the world that it really is possible to build a massively successful online education company.
- Byju’s, as the company is known, has become India’s biggest education technology company, helping millions of students prep and study for the most important exams of their lives while teaching them a thing or two about core topics like mathematics and science.
- Since its founding in 2011, the red-hot education start-up has raised over $1 billion and is now worth more than $10 billion.
- In August, Mr. Byju’s bought the education technology startup WhiteHat Jr for $300 million.
- Manu Kumar Jain, managing director of Xiaomi India, also features on the list.
- The last company he founded, Jabong, was a fashion e-commerce player that was sold to Flipkart.
