Zscaler
The 62-year old Jay Chaudhry is the owner of the cybersecurity firm Zscaler. Chaudhry and his family own 45% of the Nasdaq-listed ZScaler, which is worth $28 billion.
Chaudhry grew up in a Himalayan village called Panoh, in the Una district of Himachal Pradesh. During his childhood, with no access to electricity, Chaudhry studied under trees. “I used to walk nearly 4 kilometres everyday to attend my high school at Dhusara, the neighbouring village,” he said in an interview to The Tribune many years ago.
Today, Chaudhry, an American citizen, is one of the world’s richest with an estimated net worth of $13 billion. He founded Zscaler in 2008 and went for initial public offering in 2018.