Dhirubhai Ambani was an Indian business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries. He was born in 1932 in Gujarat and showed early brilliance in school. As a teenager, he moved to Aden and worked for trading firms, learning skills in commodities, petroleum, banking, and accounting. In 1958, he returned to Mumbai and started a trading company that grew into the multinational conglomerate Reliance. Under his leadership, Reliance became one of the largest private sector companies in India. Ambani received several honors for his business success and philanthropic initiatives in education and healthcare before his death in 2002.