Business tycoon Gautam Adani has now become the third richest person in the world

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With $137 billion fortune, Adani, who is a college dropout, is now trailing behind Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

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The noteworthy aspect is that not even a single Asian person has ever made it to the top three slots in Bloomberg Billionaires Index

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By becoming the third richest person in the globe, Adani has achieved a tremendous feat which not even Mukesh Ambani and Jack Ma has been able to do

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The 60-year-old business tycoon started as a diamond trader before setting up Adani Enterprises

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Adani Group now owns India’s largest private sector port and airport operator, city-gas distributor and coal miner

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The businessman first overtook Mukesh Ambani as the richest Asian in February

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He also surpassed Bill Gates to emerge as the world’s fourth richest person last month

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His overflowing wealth has now surpassed even Bernard Arnault, the chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's largest maker of luxury goods

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