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Gautam Shantilal Adani was born on June 24, 1962, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, into a middle-class textile family. The seventh child of Shantilal and Shanti Adani, he displayed an entrepreneurial spirit early on, dropping out of college at 16 to seek his fortune in Mumbai. He started as a diamond sorter at Mahindra Brothers before launching his own diamond brokerage at 20. This initial foray into trading revealed his keen instinct for commodities and market timing—a skill that would define his career. Returning to Ahmedabad in the early 1980s to help his brother’s plastics business, he laid the foundation for what would become one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing conglomerates. The Adani Group: A Vertical Empire Founded in 1988, the Adani Group has evolved from a modest commodity trading firm into a diversified infrastructure mega-conglomerate with a “pit-to-plug” strategy—controlling every link in the supply chain from resource extraction to delivery to end…

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