Scrap metals trader to global tycoon: The Anil Agarwal Story

Anil Agarwal is the chairman of Vedanta Resources, the multi-national mining and commodities company with large interests in India across aluminium, zinc, copper, oil, iron ore and steel. He also has an extraordinary life story, having achieved business success from modest beginnings as a scrap metal trader in Mumbai in the 1970s. In this episode, Agarwal speaks about his upcoming semiconductor project in partnership with Taiwan’s Foxconn, his desire to see India become self-sufficient in natural resources, and how he fought depression at a stage in his life when odds were stacked against him and the succession plan at Vedanta. Listen now!

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