Divyank Turakhia

Founder – Media.net

Net Worth – US $1.76 Billion

Divyank Turakhia is an Indian Born Computer Programmer, Businessman, Billionaire, Investor, a serial Entrepreneur. Divyank was founded the Media.Net which was sold to the Chinese Consortium in 2016 at the Price of $900 Million. It was the third-largest ever ad-tech deal and Divyank’s Net worth was estimated at $ 1.76 Billion in September 2017.

Divyank Turakhia was born on 29 January 1982 in Bhavnagar, Mumbai, India. He was interested in coding from a young age as he was started learning coding from the age of eight. He has completed his schooling at Arya Vidya Mandir, In Bandra, Mumbai, and later received his Graduation from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics from the University of Mumbai.

Family & Wife

Divyank’s father is Mahendra Turakhia who was a Chartered accountant and has four decades of experience in CA. He has also earned expertise in Assets and Wealth Management, Protection Services, Company Law, Domestic and International Tax Management & Planning, Finance & Investments, Foreign Collaboration, etc, and his Mother is Priya Turakhia is the homemaker. They Two sons named as Divyank Turakhia and Bhavin Turakhia. From his childhood, both the brothers were interested in computers and the internet as they had pensioned about coding and computer programming. In an interview, he said we Both the brothers had good understanding as they were started their business from 25000 rupees and the company was Media.net. Divyank is now 39 years and still unmarried as reportedly it is here that he is going to marry very soon.

Career

In the year 1996 at the age of 14 years, he has started a career in Internet Consulting for Large businesses in 1998 he founded the company named Directi the company which offers Websites, domain names, and hosting to other companies with his elder brother Bhavin Turakhia .

Divyank was a long-lasting interest in Coding and was build his first game and told his brother to monitor for growth and prices of the stock market . After developing their first-ever game their interest was increasing day by day as it was put an effect on their study. So that his father told Divyank to join B.com Programmed , for his father’s words he was bound to join this course but he was unable to put his focus on his study as he has not any single interest in the study. He was never attended the classes as his whole day was spend in his home learning to code after they both brothers decided to start their own Company in 1998 . Initially they had convinced their father for the capital of only 25000 rupees to start their Business . At that time their father had no idea as their sons would join the Billionaire club in the future . Divyank and his Brother Bhavin was first started their company named as Directi which provides Web Hosting and Domain to other companies, after that they both made another famous Company Bigrock which was under the Same Banner.

Now Directi Has more than 1000 Employees and More than 10 Million Customers all around the world . In the year 2014 Divyank and Bhavin was sold their four companies named LogicBoxes, Resellerclub, Bigrock and Webhosting .info to the US Bases company Endurance International Group for the Price of $160 Million . And in 2013 they sold their company Media.net a AdSense Company which was founded in 2010 and sold to the Chinese Company for the price of $900 Million. Media.net is basically the advertising company that focused on providing monetization products to digital publishers. The services also include display, search, native, video, and mobile advertising to monetize publishers’ inventory directly.

Physical appearance

Awards / Achievements / Honors

• Asia’s best Entrepreneur Under 25 , Business week magazine 2006 .
• Enterprise Twenty 20: 20ne Business leaders in their 20s , Financial Express 2008 .
• Winner Warier Bloomberg Television 2010 .
• Most Respected Indian Entrepreneur for 2016 , Hurun Report .
• The ET Panache Trend Setter Awards By the Economics Times 2016 .
• Ranked #95 the Indian richest list in Forbes India top 100 richest list 2016 .
• 40 Most Influential Indian Under 40 By Asia One 2017 .
• #27 in the Global 40 Under 40 Self Made Rich List 2017 .
• Youngest Self made Gulf Billionaire 2017 .
• Youngest Indian Self Made Billionaire 2016,2017,2018 .
• #9 In Indian Richest Tech Billionaire By IIFL Hurun Rich List 2020 .
• #2 In the IIFL Wealth & Hurun India 40 Under 40 Rich List Self Made Billionaire 2020 .

Net Worth

Divyank’s net worth is approx. as per 2021 is Rs 12,500 Crore.

Cars collection

• Ferrari 458 Spider
• Rolls Royce Phantom
• Audi A8
• Mercedes S-Class
• Porsche 911

Personal Life

Turakhia brothers were born in Mumbai and from the child’s age, Divyank had dreams about coding which will always make him craziest about the technology world. Initially, he spent 3-5 hours with Coding and made his first game at just the age of 10 years. His father always denied them to stay away from these things but Divyank has a passion for Coding as well. when Divyank was 17 years old his father joined him in a College in B.com program but just to keep his father’s word he joined the Couse and never attended any class as he doest had any interest in this Course. In the year 1998 when Divyank thought that he has enough knowledge to spread the technology stuffs with the world then the both Turkhia brothers insisted his father for 25000 to start their own Company but his father has no idea what will the kids doing in just little amount but he helped to their children and supports him initially. After spending much time the Turakhia Brothers made the first Company Directi a Web Hosting Company and later they had made many more companies like Media.net, LogicBoxes, Reseller Club, BigRock, and Webhosting.info like many more. Although they got many offers to sell their Company and they actually sold them to the Chinese company worth $900 Million, One of the Companies they sold it to the American Web hosting company worth $160 Million directly and got placed in the list of the youngest millionaire for the year 2017.

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