- Lived:
- born 19 April 1957 in Aden (Yemen), where his father was a clerk in a trading firm; raised in Bombay (Mumbai), where the life has happened — a chawl, then a company, then a tower
- Field:
- industry — refining and petrochemicals, then telecom and retail; chairman of Reliance Industries, the promoter-family conglomerate his father founded
- The Big Idea:
- Scale as strategy. Build the biggest version of the thing — the largest refinery on earth, then a mobile network priced so low it reset what data costs — and let size itself do the competing.
- In their words:
- "Data is the new oil" — his refrain of the Jio years (as of September 2026)
- If you remember one thing:
- In 2016 one company made mobile data so cheap that several hundred million Indians came online for the first time — the largest single change a private firm has made to ordinary Indian life — and the same company's name runs through two decades of regulatory files. Both facts are true. This book includes him for the first, and prints the second.