Yes, Gautam Adani was once an MSME owner. Now, with an estimated wealth of $56 billion, Adani is ranked 26th on the 2025 edition of the Forbes Rich List. His flagship company, Adani Enterprises has a market cap of $116 billion and EBITDA over $7 billion.
Adani Exports – Adani’s MSME calling card
Adani Exports started life in 1988 as a partnership firm, established by diamond sorter Gautam Adani. Adani Exports started as a commodity trading company dealing in agricultural and power commodities. In 1991 it was incorporated and in 1996 it went public. Rapid expansion over the next few years necessitated the change of name to Adani Enterprises to reflect the wider portfolio of businesses.
The most successful MSME leader in history
In simple terms, Gautam Adani might be the most successful MSME leader in the history of our nation. His is an inspiring story of a first-generation leader achieving stratospheric heights with his entrepreneurial spirit, strategic vision, and relentless drive. Under his leadership, the Adani Group has grown into a global conglomerate with interests in infrastructure, energy, logistics, agribusiness, and more.
Are you where Gautam Shantilal Adani was in 1978, 1981, 1988 or 1994?
Times change. Fortunes change.
Luck may have a role but mostly it is vision, drive, work-ethic, execution, and perhaps many other factors that make a one-time MSME a global corporation.
If you are running an MSME, you may have already done most of the hard work. You have a product (or a service), you have a group of customers and you have a production facility or system. Your efforts support not only your family and other dependents, they also create jobs and add to the national GDP. Enhanced government support is a recognition of the nation-building role played by MSMEs.
Our national ambition is to have USD 30 Trillion by 2047 and be a developed country i.e. Viksit Bharat. MSMEs of today have an opportunity to grow manifold by expanding to other markets in the country and globally, and by developing new, innovative products. In the process, they will create much needed jobs for fellow Indians and contribute to nation building.
Do you dream to be someday where Gautam Shantilal Adani is today?
If you have an ambition to grow, join us at MSME Mahotsav at Ashok Hotel New Delhi on April 23-24 and get introduced to the immense possibilities.