(from left) (top) Vinod Khosla, Naval Ravikant, (bottom) Hemant Taneja and Sundar Pichai / Forbes

Twenty-six Indian Americans have been featured on Forbes' inaugural "FORBES 250 America's Most Successful Immigrants" list, published June 10 to recognize immigrants who have shaped American business, innovation and society.

Forbes published the list in the spirit of the country's 250th anniversary celebration, ranking America's 250 greatest living immigrants and also looking at immigrants' impact as a whole on the nation.

Vinod Khosla

The first Indian American entrant on the list, 71-year-old Vinod Khosla came to the U.S. in 1976 and co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 before becoming one of Silicon Valley's most powerful venture capitalists.

Naval Ravikant

The 51-year-old co-founder of investment platform AngelList, Ravikant made early bets on Uber, Twitter and delivery service Postmates, which Uber acquired for $2.7 billion in 2020.

Hemant Taneja

Founder of General Catalyst, the 50-year-old's portfolio of investments includes Stripe, social media platform Snap and defense firm Anduril.

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Sanjay Mehrotra

The CEO of Micron rode the computer memory boom to a trillion-dollar valuation as of early June. Prior to that, he founded memory chip giant SanDisk, which was acquired by Western Digital for $19 billion in 2016. Mehrotra is 67 years old.

Sundar Pichai

Fifty-three-year-old Pichai joined Google in 2004 to lead development of its Chrome browser. Its success helped him rise all the way to CEO in 2015.

Abhijit Banerjee

Banerjee is the co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which tests economic policy with randomized controlled trials. He won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2019 and is currently 65 years old.

Padma Lakshmi

Lakshmi is an American television host, model, author, entrepreneur and activist. The 55-year-old rose to prominence by hosting the Bravo cooking competition program "Top Chef." She came to the U.S. as a child in 1974.

Satya Nadella

Since taking the reins at Microsoft in 2014, the 58-year-old has guided the company toward cloud computing and AI while spearheading acquisitions of Activision Blizzard and LinkedIn.

Jay Chaudhry

Chaudhry was born in a remote Himalayan village in India and moved to the U.S. in 1980 at age 22 for graduate studies at the University of Cincinnati. The 67-year-old is the founder, chairman and CEO of cloud security leader Zscaler.

Romesh T. Wadhwani

Wadhwani is a 78-year-old who moved to the U.S. in 1969 from India. He now serves as chairman of SymphonyAI and founder of SAIGroup, a private equity and software investor that has built dozens of tech companies.

Kavitark Ram Shriram

Shriram, 69, is an early Google investor, founding board member and venture capitalist via Sherpalo Ventures.

Jyoti Bansal

The 48-year-old is a serial entrepreneur who first moved to the U.S. in 2000 at around age 23. She is the founder of AppDynamics, which she sold to Cisco for $3.7 billion, and is the co-founder of Harness and Traceable.

Neha Narkhede

Forty-one-year-old Narkhede co-founded data streaming platform Confluent, which was acquired by IBM in March for $11 billion.

David Paul

Paul moved to the U.S. from India for a master's degree at Temple University in the early 1990s. The 59-year-old is the founder and executive chairman of Globus Medical, a spine implant and medical device manufacturer.

Jitendra Mohan

The 52-year-old moved to the U.S., after studying at IIT Bombay, for an MS at Stanford and is the co-founder and CEO of Astera Labs, an AI semiconductor networking firm.

Nikesh Arora

Arora has been active in the U.S. tech space since the 1990s and is currently the chairman and CEO of cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks.

Shyam Sankar

Sankar, 44, is the CTO and EVP of Palantir Technologies. He joined the company as an early employee, the 13th employee to join, and gradually rose through its ranks over the years.

Raj Sardana

Sixty-six-year-old Sardana moved to the U.S. in 1981 for a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and is the founder and CEO of Innova Solutions, an IT services and staffing firm.

Aman Narang

Forty-two-year-old Narang is the co-founder and CEO of Toast, a restaurant POS and management platform.

Arvind Krishna

Sixty-four-year-old Krishna moved to the U.S. in the late 1980s and joined IBM in 1990. He is currently the chairman and CEO of IBM.

Shantanu Narayen

Narayen, 63, moved to the U.S. in the 1980s for graduate studies. He holds an MS from Bowling Green and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Narayen is currently the chairman and CEO of Adobe.

K.R. Sridhar

The 65-year-old is the founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, a clean-energy fuel cell company.

Premal Shah

Shah is the co-founder and president of microfinance firm Kiva and is now involved in impact investing and philanthropy.

Rakesh Gangwal

Gangwal is a 70-year-old who moved to the U.S. for higher education. He is the co-founder of IndiGo airlines and is also an investor. He has also served as the CEO of US Airways Group.

Rajiv Jain

The 60-year-old is the founder of global investment firm GQG Partners, which has more than $162 billion in assets under management.

Indra Nooyi

Seventy-year-old Nooyi moved to the U.S. in 1978 for an MBA at Yale and is the former CEO of PepsiCo, a board member of companies including Amazon, and a published author.

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