Forbes Asia — October 2017

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The Way We Work 40 | FORBES ASIA OCTOBER 2017 JAMEL TOPPIN FOR FORBES At $20 billion, WeWork is the most valuable startup in Ame ...

OCTOBER 2017 FORBES ASIA | 41 A dam Neumann, the frenetic cofound- er and CEO of We- Work, was pacing back and forth in his offi ...

42 | FORBES ASIA OCTOBER 2017 the end of 201 5—spread across 52 cities worldwide. Its 2 ,900-plus employees manage 10 million sq ...

KIYOSHI OTA/BLOOMBERG OCTOBER 2017 FORBES ASIA | 43 rent office space,” says Josh Kushner, the founder of the VC firm Thrive Cap ...

44 | FORBES ASIA OCTOBER 2017 lective of activist single mothers who valued causes over cash. It was a childhood in which homes ...

OCTOBER 2017 FORBES ASIA | 45 the criticism to heart. “I met with my spiritual teacher and went to a therapist. I realized that ...

46 | FORBES ASIA OCTOBER 2017 S usan Waite, 48 , still remembers hearing her disease’s name, myelofibrosis, for the first time f ...

OCTOBER 2017 FORBES ASIA | 47 JAMEL TOPPIN FOR FORBES Incyte CEO Hervé Hoppenot counts on bleeding-edge tech like this NMR spect ...

48 | FORBES ASIA OCTOBER 2017 but still serves on Incyte’s board. “They wanted to find a new venue to work.” Swamy Yeleswaram, o ...

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A Different Reality Fortunes soar despite economic hiccups. I ndia’s turbocharged economy sputtered in the quarter ended in June ...

ATUL LOKE FOR FORBES 1 MUKESH AMBANI $38 BILLION S RELIANCE INDUSTRIES AGE: 60 2 AZIM PREMJI $19 BILLION S WIPRO AGE: 72 3 HINDU ...

India’s 100 Richest AZIM PREMJI: GIVING EDGE Despite giving away 39% of his shares in outsourcer Wipro in recent years, the tech ...

13 CYRUS POONAWALLA $8.9 BILLION SERUM INSTITUTE OF INDIA AGE: 76 14 SUNIL MITTAL $8.3 BILLION S BHARTI AIRTEL AGE: 60 15 BAJAJ ...

India’s 100 Richest Stepping Up S uccession lines are being drawn in several business groups with the next-gen, sporting foreign ...

26 AJAY PIRAMAL $5.2 BILLION S PIRAMAL ENTERPRISES AGE: 62 27 M.A. YUSUFF ALI $5 BILLION S LULU GROUP AGE: 61 28 MADHUKAR PAREKH ...

India’s 100 Richest ANINDITO MUKHERJEE/BLOOMBERG VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA: MOBILE MONEY MAN Newcomer Sharma, the son of a schoolteac ...

VIPIN KUMAR/HINDUSTAN TIMES/NEWSCOM (TOP) 38 KARSANBHAI PATEL $3.6 BILLION S NIRMA AGE: 73 39 ASHWIN DANI $3.5 BILLION ASIAN PAI ...

India’s 100 Richest N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY: WAR OF WORDS The retired chairman and cofounder of software bellwether Infosys was in ...