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title: "Facts you need to know about Ratan Tata"  
description: "Ratan Naval Tata is an Indian industrialist, and a former chairman of Tata Sons. Here are some of the interesting facts about him."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-09-19  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1099/facts-you-need-to-know-about-ratan-tata  
category: "education"  
tags: ["Ratan Tata", "tata", "entrepreneur", "tata industry"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Facts you need to know about Ratan Tata

![Facts you need to know about Ratan Tata](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d51747ee-6da5-4a72-9e27-95b01af8b9ce/images/ebace70f-d5fe-4b57-a50b-ae657925055e.jpeg) Childhood. Born in 1937, Ratan Tata's father Naval Tata was the adopted grandson of Jamsetji Tata. ![Facts you need to know about Ratan Tata](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d51747ee-6da5-4a72-9e27-95b01af8b9ce/images/110e7590-c08b-4f2e-93d5-897eb9ace432.jpeg) Ratan Tata is unmarried. He has admitted that he came close to marrying four times, but could not go through with it for various reasons. ![Facts you need to know about Ratan Tata](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d51747ee-6da5-4a72-9e27-95b01af8b9ce/images/b75d4a41-b058-4544-a4cd-7edba389861b.jpeg) Ratan Tata’s first job was at Tata Steel which he took up in the year 1961. His first responsibility was to manage the blast furnace. ![Facts you need to know about Ratan Tata](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d51747ee-6da5-4a72-9e27-95b01af8b9ce/images/21ecdfa7-0ae3-477f-8be8-f061e894c3a8.jpeg) Ratan Tata rejected a job opportunity from IBM. Instead, he joined his family business by starting on the shop floor of Tata Steel. ![Facts you need to know about Ratan Tata](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d51747ee-6da5-4a72-9e27-95b01af8b9ce/images/6f4e4749-c950-439c-9cca-931951ed9b29.jpeg) In 2009, he envisioned the Tata Nano car, the cheapest car in India worth Rs 1 lakh. He delivered on his promise. ![Facts you need to know about Ratan Tata](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d51747ee-6da5-4a72-9e27-95b01af8b9ce/images/241e436c-3a9e-4287-b0ff-2eb9d5409950.jpeg) Ratan Tata accomplished some historical mergers for his company including Land Rover Jaguar with Tata Motors, Tetly with Tata Tea and Corus with Tata

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