Tech outsourcing moguls among world’s richest in Forbes 2025 list
NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES — Several tech billionaires have built their fortunes through outsourcing companies, demonstrating the sector’s potential for generating substantial wealth.
Forbes presented its yearly World’s Billionaires list for 2025, which hit record numbers with 3,028 billionaires worth $16.1 trillion, surpassing last year by $2 trillion. The United States led with 902 billionaires, followed by China and Hong Kong with 516, and India with 205, revealing increased wealth worldwide.
Indian outsourcing billionaires in Top 200
Several Indian billionaires, including Shiv Nadar, Azim Premji, and Mukesh Ambani have amassed fortunes through information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies and services.
The IT services and outsourcing industry has produced billionaires who prove their money-making capability through their presence in Forbes’ global wealth rankings. Individuals achieved extraordinary success because they supplied businesses across the globe with high-quality operational solutions that streamlined their business processes.
A closer look at the top 200 billionaires list showed some of the world’s IT and BPO titans:
- Shiv Nadar, who ranked 51st with a $34.5 billion net worth and is the founder of HCL Technologies, now the chairman emeritus and strategic advisor of the company.
- Azim Premji, who ranked 199th with a $12 billion net worth and was the former chairman of Wipro Limited.
Global outsourcing leaders
Outsourcing also became beneficial to Carlos Slim Helú of América Móvil, ranked 19th in the Forbes list, who demonstrates broad industry integration through outsourcing.
This trend indicates the increasing importance of outsourcing as a driver of economic prosperity, with significant implications for global business strategies and employment trends.
Beyond traditional BPO, some billionaires have leveraged outsourcing as a springboard for innovation and technological advancement.
Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, ranked 60th with a net worth of $29.4 billion, invests in outsourcing and AI firms, underscoring the convergence of these two sectors.
Electronic services leader Oracle relies on Larry Ellison‘s leadership, ranked 4th in the Forbes list, and Michael Dell who ranked 17th, who runs Dell Technologies using services that include outsourcing features in their business model. Eric Schmidt from Google positioned at 82nd place on the Forbes billionaire ranking and subsequently monetized cloud-based and AI outsourcing.
The data demonstrates that BPO delivers more than expense reduction by enabling innovation alongside industrial transformations, which result in extensive business model creation and industry revolution, thus showing that smart outsourcing methods can generate magnificent economic power and influential status.
