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India’s richest tech billionaires in 2019

India’s richest tech billionaires in 2019
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  • The Hurun Research Institute released a list of the top 100 billionaires, a few of whom are from the technology sector.
  • India’s richest tech billionaire is Wipro chairman, Azim Premji but he’s given away 30% more money than his own net worth.
  • Vijay Shekhar Sharma is India’s fourth richest tech billionaire but the only start up guy on the list.
India’s digital economy is growing, and is filling the coffers of innovators and others.

The IIFL Wealth Hurun Report India ranks the richest of Indians — and quite a few of them are from the technology sector.

Unlike other industries, globally tech billionaires are self-made, and come from humble beginnings. While India has a few who had legacy businessmen, a new set of entrepreneurs who bet on new-age technology like cloud, mobile payments and digital ad platforms also managed to make their moolah and hence made it to the list.

Scroll on to see India’s 10 richest tech billionaires and their net worth:

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