Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty (B.R Shetty) had just $8 when he arrived in UAE but now he is a billionaire owning businesses in different sectors such as pharmaceuticals, global financial services, retail, and advertising and information technology.
He is among India’s 100 richest person, but all his wealth was accumulated from Abu Dhabi where he shifted in 1973. He reached in UAE without any clothes because the airline didn’t bring his baggage.
In 1975 he started a clinic where a doctor, a dentist, laboratory and X-ray services were available. As the fees were nominal it attracted people. Soon this clinic gave him wealth which he invested in other businesses.
Now he runs advertising companies, his pharmaceutical factory manufactures medicines for British multinational brands and his financial institutes are trusted by millions.
His story inspires millions around the world of how a man with just his hard work became billionaire.