After listing out the name of the richest people from various countries few weeks back, now we want to present the name of world’s youngest self made billionaire a medium to stimulate you out there to become enlisted in the subsequent list of the millionaires,especially young people from Africa
. Along with it, we have put down names of other young people from around the world who are self made billionaires. A total of 17 people finds a place in this young billionaire club and they are aged less than 40 and their net worth stands at more than a billion in US Dollars. And the most striking thing about these richest young people is that all their wealth and fortune is self made and not inherited. Let us see the names of those top 10 richest young people.while we expect yours soonest!...if you belief in that then take some time to view these
Dustin Moskovitz – Youngest Self Made Billionaire
Net Worth: $3.8 Billion
Age: 29
Country: United States of America (USA)
While pursuing his major in economics from Harvard University, Dustin Moskovitz met Mark Zuckerberg and along with other friends they founded Facebook which is the largest social networking website on the internet. This youngest self-made billionaire dropped out of Harvard to work for Facebook. He owns significant stakes in Facebook. Moskovitz left Facebook in 2008 and along with Justin Rosenstein founded Asana which is a web and mobile application seeking to improve communication between groups.
Mark Zuckerberg – Second Youngest Self Made Billionaire
Net Worth: $13.3 billion
Age: 29
Country: United States of America
Mark Zuckerberg is seven years older than first ranked self made billionaire Dustin Moskovitz. He co-founded Facebook along with four others. He is the most famous face of Facebook company. His net worth makes him one of the richest people in America. His voting power on the board of his company makes him one of the most powerful people in the world. He was born in White Plains, New York to a well-educated family. His father is a dental surgeon while mother a psychiatrist. He has taken an interest in programming since childhood and while at Harvard he started Facemash which led to the birth of Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin
Net Worth: $2.2 Billion
Age: 31
Country: Brazil
Eduardo Saverin is the co-founder of Facebook just like the top 2 ranked persons. He gave the early investments to Facebook in the form of few thousand Dollars in return for stakes in the company. Later on this stake was disputed between the founders which led to a legal battle. And that was settled out of court in which he was given 5% ownership of Facebook and also the tag of “co-founder”. The company’s IPO made him a billionaire after which he renounced his US citizenship and now lives in Brazil.
Sean Parker
Net Worth: $2 billion
Age: 33
Country: US
Sean Parker is one of the co-founders of music sharing website Napster. This young self-made had taken interest in programming since childhood and hacked websites of one of the Fortune 500 companies. His website Napster was shut down due to legal issues. It was one of the pre-cursors to the iTunes store. He later joined Facebook as the founding President and invested in it. Today, his net worth is mainly because of the stakes in Facebook and other Internet companies. Plaxo, Airtime and Causes are other companies which he has co-founded.
Yoshikazu Tanaka – Asia’s Youngest Self Made Billionaire
Net Worth: $1.9 Billion
Age: 36
Country: Japan
Youngest self made billionaire in Japan and also in Asia, Yoshikazu Tanaka is the founder of social networking website GREE. To take care of his growing internet business, he started the company GREE, Inc which is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. GEE, Inc is an internet media company which develops apps and games for Smartphones. It dominated the Japanese internet but recently it has begun receiving strong competition from Google Play and Apple Store. Tanaka is also one of the richest people in Japan according to Forbes.
Maxim Nogotkov – Russia’s Youngest Billionaire
Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Age: 36
Country: Russia
Maxim Nogotkov left his college studies to do trading in cell phones. It proved successful and he registered the business under the name of Svyaznoy. Svyaznoy is Russia’s second largest cell phone retailer with Euroset as largest retailer. Maxim Nogotkov also forayed into the banking business with his Svyaznoy Banks. According to its website:
Svyaznoy Bank has more than 2300 points of sales and branches and nearly 100 000 ATM with FREE receipt of money in Russia.
He is the youngest billionaire in Russia.
Jack Dorsey
Net Worth: $1.1 billion
Age: 36
Country: United States of America
Cofounder of the micro – blogging website Twitter, Jack Dorsey became a billionaire this year due to his investments in Square,Inc which is a mobile payment company. He grew up in Missouri and from the age of 13, he became interested in dispatch routing. His open source softwares are still used by many taxi cab companies. His latest start-up Square has been valued by Business Insider Magazine at $3.2 Billion. A net worth of $1.1 billion makes him one of the youngest self made billionaire.
Nicholas Woodman – One of the Youngest Billionaires
Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Age: 37
Country: America
Founder of company GoPro, Nicholar Woodman has been dubbed by Forbes as ‘Mad Billionaire’. His company GoPro manufactures cameras that can be used to capture high-action adventure photography. Foxconn, which is a Taiwanese company, made about $200 million investments in GoPro for a 8.8 % stake. This puts the valuation of company in billions and making Nick one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the world. . GoPro has reported $500 million in revenues for the year 2012.
Chase Coleman, III.
Net Worth: $1.4 billion
Age: 38
Country: America
Another self made billionaire in America, Chase Coleman is the founder of Tiger Global Management which is a hedge fund management company. Currently, he is also the CEO of the company. He was one of the few early investors in Facebook. His mantra is to invest in fast growing tech companies. He is one of the youngest money managers on a planet with billions of dollars under management of his firm. Chase Coleman purchases stock in tech companies before their IPO and then later sells-off during IPO to earn huge profits.
Ryan Kavanaugh
Net Worth: $1 Billion
Age: 38
Country: United States of America
Ryan is a film producer and film financier. He founded Relativity Media which is invested in film-production. Before starting this business, he worked for venture capital firms and other small businesses. His net worth makes him one of the youngest billionaires in the world.
Other Young Self Made Billionaires
#11) Andrey Verevskiy - $1 billion
#12) John Arnold - $2.8 billion
source:techscio.com
source:techscio.com
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