The world's youngest self-made billionaires You are using an older browser version. Please use a supported version for the best MSN experience. The world's youngest self-made billionaires Forbes 3/9/2016 Kate Vinton Youngest Self-Made Billionaires Click through the slideshow above to see the world's youngest self-made billionaires. A record 66 members of the 2016 Forbes Billionaires List are under the age of 40. Of those, an impressive 36 built their fortunes themselves. Nearly three-quarters of these self-made billionaires got rich in the tech sector, with half of the tech fortunes coming from so-called “Unicorns” – private startups valued by investors at $1 billion or more. Many of these companies, like Snapchat, Uber, Pinterest and Airbnb, didn't even exist 10 years ago. The youngest of these self-made mavens is 25-year-old Snapchat cofounder Evan Spiegel. In May, Snapchat raised $538 million in funding, valuing the ephemeral messaging company at $16 billion and increasing Spiegel's net worth to $2.1 billion.

His Snapchat cofounder and Stanford friend, 27-year-old Bobby Murphy is the next youngest self-made billionaire with a net worth of $1.8 billion. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the world's youngest billionaire when he debuted on the list in March 2008 at age 23 with a net worth of $1.5 billion. Today, the 31-year-old is not the youngest but he's definitely the richest by far of the under-40 crowd, with a net worth of $44.6 billion. There is only one woman billionaire under 40 with a self-made fortune. Elizabeth Holmes, now 32, founded her blood-testing company Theranos at age 19. The company has come under fire in the past year for shipping an unapproved blood-collecting device and having unsafe lab practices, leading Forbes to lower our valuation of Theranos. Holmes, who owns half of Theranos, is worth an estimated $3.6 billion.

The World's Youngest Billionaires 2011 The World's Youngest Billionaires 2011 Kimberly White/Getty Images The World’s Youngest Billionaires 2011 The world’s 20 youngest billionaires are evidence that enormous fortunes can be created in far less than a lifetime. All of them are under 40. The youngest, Dustin Moskovitz, is just eight days younger than his Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg (both are 26). The oldest in this group, Google cofounder Sergey Brin (age 37), is also the group’s richest, boasting a net worth of $19.8 billion. All ages are as of March 28, 2011. The World's Youngest Billionaires: 29 Under 40 The World's Youngest Billionaires: 29 Under 40 {{article.article.images.featured.caption}} Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Full Bio The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Loading ... This story appears in the {{article.article.magazine.pretty_date}} issue of {{article.article.magazine.pubName}}.

Subscribe In Pictures: Dustin Moskovitz, the world's youngest billionaire. There are 1,426 billionaires in the world this year. They are the wealthiest of the wealthy. But only 29 members of this elite list are under 40 years old, with that exciting combination of money and youth. Those 29 have a total of $119 billion between them. Ten come from the technology sector, including four from social networking giant . Eleven come from the United States, the rest from countries abroad. Five are newcomers to the billionaire ranks. Read the full list below. Age: 28 Net Worth: $3.8 billion Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg 's former roommate, no longer works at Facebook, the social networking giant that he co-founded. A signee of Bill Gates ' and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, Moskovitz bikes to work, flies commercial, and pitches his own tent at Burning Man. No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg Age: 28 Net Worth: $13.3 billion Few CEOs of any age are under more media scrutiny than Zuckerberg (who's only 8 days older than Moskovitz).

Since taking Facebook public in May 2012, and getting married days later, the hoodie-wearing founder has seen his net worth rise and fall with every fluctuation of the stock price. No. 3: Albert von Thurn und Taxis Age: 29 Net Worth: $1.5 billion Albert von Thurn und Taxis first appeared in Forbes' billionaire rankings at age 8 but officially inherited his fortune in 2001 on his 18th birthday. The eligible bachelor is also a race car driver and tours with a German auto-racing league. No. 4: Scott Duncan Age: 30 Net Worth: $5.1 billion Duncan is the youngest of the four children who inherited the massive fortune of late energy pipeline entrepreneur Dan Duncan, founder of Enterprise Products Partners. Today the company owns more than 50,000 miles of natural gas, oil, and petrochemical pipelines. Age: 30 Net Worth: $2.2 billion Facebook co-founder Saverin renounced his United States citizenship in 2011, news of which broke days before the company's IPO and drew accusations of tax evasion.

Saverin, immortalized in The Social Network as Mark Zuckerberg's onetime best friend, settled a lengthy legal battle with Facebook, apparently receiving a 5% stake. A Brazilian citizen, he now resides in Singapore and invests in startups. Age: 31 Net Worth: $5.7 billion Yang, the daughter of the founder of real estate developer Country Garden Holdings, is once again China's richest woman. Her father transferred his stake to the Ohio State grad before the company's IPO in 2007. No. 7: Fahd Hariri Age: 32 Net Worth: $1.35 billion Hariri is the youngest son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He graduated from the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture de Paris in 2004. While still a student, he ran an interior design studio on the outskirts of the city, and sold furniture to clients in Saudi Arabia.

The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires Lidiya K In Entrepreneurship , Money The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires This is a guest post by Richard Madison, Marketing Executive for the Brighton School of Business and Management which is based in the UK and offers business and entrepreneurial courses to a range of students. He regularly writes about business, management, leadership and workplace insights. Enjoying this? I've got some bonus content for you. Get access to more motivational and practical stuff, and receive weekly updates. According to Forbes there are 1,810 billionaires in the world in 2016. These billionaires hold a combined net worth of $4.48 trillion dollars. What is interesting is the fact that there were more billionaires than ever before in 2015 when there was a record number which stood at 1,826. And 2016 is the first year since 2010 that the average net worth of a billionaire has actually dropped. It now stands at $3.6 billion dollars which is $300 million dollars less that what it was in 2015.

While many of the world’s wealthiest self-made billionaires will be familiar names such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Zara founder Amancio Ortega and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet, the youngest on the list are only becoming familiar to the world in the past few years and their stars are still on the rise. The Youngest Self-Made Male and Female Billionaires The world’s youngest self-made billionaire is Evan Spiegel, who was born in 1990 and will turn 26 years of age in June of this year. He is one of the co-founders of Snapchat, the mobile photo and video messaging app which only launched in 2011 but already has well over 100 million daily users and is rapidly rising. He is estimated to have a personal net worth of $2.1 billion dollars based on a 13% shareholding in Snapchat which has an approximate value of $16 billion dollars. The world’s youngest self-made female billionaire is Elizabeth Holmes, who was born in 1984 and turned 32 in February of this year.

She is the sole founder of Theranos, a billion dollar bio-technology organization with a revolutionary approach to blood testing which launched in 2003 with a goal to make clinical testing cheaper and faster. She is estimated to have a personal net worth of $3.6 billion dollars based on a 50% ownership stake in Theranos which is valued between $7 billion and $9 billion dollars. Both of these young billionaires attended Stanford University and both subsequently dropped out before graduating. Outside of their business success and both of them being founders of large scale influential organizations that is where their similarities come to an end in both their professional and personal lives. Holmes studied chemical engineering where she filed her first patent for an advanced drug delivery patch while still in Stanford. In her freshman year she became a President’s Scholar which came with a $3,000 stipend to go towards a research project. She also spent a summer working in the Genome Institute labs in Singapore working on ground-breaking SARS research. Spiegel, on the other hand, studied product design and was part of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity where he met his future co-founder of Snapchat, Bobby Murphy. He was known to aggressively network while attending Stanford to meet influential people.

This led to a meeting with Scott Cook, co-founder of tech company Intuit where Spiegel took up a job while he was still a student. For an illustrated look at these two highly successful and fascinating self-made billionaires, see this infographic created by the Brighton School of Business and Management. The 20 youngest self-made billionaires in the world The 20 youngest self-made billionaires in the world Kathleen Elkins Reuters 25-year-old Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel is the youngest billionaire in the world. Some of the wealthiest, most successful entrepreneurs take decades to accumulate their fortunes — others strike gold very early on. A recent report from Hurun , a Shanghai firm that releases yearly rankings and research about the world’s richest people, rounded up the latter group of entrepreneurs: self-made billionaires under age 35. Read on to see who made the list — and just how wealthy they are, as estimated by Hurun: View photos Residence: Los Angeles, California Estimated wealth: $1.8 billion At the ripe age of 25, the Snapchat CEO is the youngest billionaire in the world after launching the popular photo-sharing app with two of his former Stanford classmates.

View photos Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $1 billion The Harvard dropout cofounded Stripe , an online payment company, with his brother Patrick in 2011. The Irish-born brothers now live in San Francisco, where the company is based. View photos Residence: Venice, California Estimated wealth: $1.8 billion Just five years out of college, the CTO of Snapchat is one of the youngest billionaires in the world, along with his Snapchat cofounder Spiegel. The two met during their days as Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers at Stanford. View photos Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $1.0 billion The Stripe cofounder and CEO dropped out of MIT to partner with his brother John and pursue an entrepreneurial path. Their start-up was most recently valued at $5 billion in October. View photos Residence: Palo Alto, California Estimated wealth: $45 billion The Facebook cofounder and CEO became the youngest self-made billionaire in history at age 23, thanks to Facebook’s IPO. Today, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla are the ninth-wealthiest couple in the world and active philanthropists.

View photos Residence: Palo Alto, California Estimated wealth: $4.3 billion Holmes founded healthcare-technology company Theranos as a sophomore at Stanford. Within months, she dropped out to pursue her entrepreneurial path and build her company. Today, she’s America’s youngest female billionaire at age 31. View photos Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $10 billion The Facebook cofounder was the company’s first CTO. He left to launch Asana in 2008 with fellow Facebooker Justin Rosenstein, but Moskovitz still holds a significant stake in the company. View photos Residence: Shanghai, China Estimated wealth: $1.0 billion The CEO of Shanghai Kingnet Technology joined the ranks of the youngest billionaires this year . Formerly an executive at 51.com in China, Wang has turned Kingnet into a leading mobile game developer in China since becoming CEO in 2009. View photos Residence: Beijing, China Estimated wealth: $1.0 billion Wei is CEO of the ride hailing service Didi Kuaidi, similar to Uber. Before founding Didi Dache, he spent eight years at e-commerce firm Alibaba .

View photos Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $3.6 billion The Harvard graduate was working as a product manager at Microsoft when his former roommate Joe Gebbia recruited him to cofound Airbnb. As the current CTO, he led the company’s recent push into Cuba . View photos Residence: China Estimated wealth: $1.2 billion The Chinese software entrepreneur and CEO of Hangzhou Liaison Interactive Technology joined the young billionaires club in 2015, when the value of his shares in the company sent him from millionaire to billionaire status. View photos Residence: Singapore Estimated wealth: $5.6 billion The Facebook cofounder is no longer as involved in the company after legal disputes with his fellow cofounders, but he still holds a small stake in Facebook . The Brazilian-born entrepreneur is now an active angel investor as well as the director of 99 , a Singapore-based property rental and sales website. View photos Residence: Bangalore, India Estimated wealth: $1.4 billion In 2007, Bansal teamed up with Binny Bansal — no relation, despite the same surname — to found Flipkart as an online seller of books.

Today, it’s I ndia’s top internet retailer , with 30 million products and 44 million registered users. View photos Residence: Bangalore, India Estimated wealth: $1.4 billion The cofounder of Flipkart has been the chief operating officer for years, but is slated to take over as CEO . Sachin, the CEO since the early days of Flipkart, will take on the newly created role of executive chairman. View photos Residence: Shanghai, China Estimated wealth: $1.5 billion After two business flops, Lin Qi founded web gaming company Youzu with 10 people in 2009 . He reached billionaire status in 2014 after Susino Umbrella bought his company. Today, Lin serves as chairman of Youzu. View photos Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $3.6 billion Residence: Beijing, China Estimated wealth: $1.3 billion The cofounder of education services firm TAL Education has served as chairman and CEO since the company’s inception. He was named China’s entrepreneur of the year in 2013 .

View photos Residence: Sydney, Australia Estimated wealth: $1.9 billion The Australia native cofounded software company Atlassian with a university buddy, Mike Cannon-Brookes, in 2002. Atlassian grew at a rapid rate and pulled off a successful IPO in 2015 , the fifth largest US IPO of that year . View photos Residence: Sydney, Australia Estimated wealth: $1.9 billion Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar share the role of CEO at Atlassian , which now has 15 software products and serves clients including Citigroup, NASA, Twitter, and Tesla. View photos Residence: China Estimated wealth: $3.4 billion In 2006, Frank Wang Tao founded Dajiang Innovation Technology (DJI) from his dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Today, DJI is the world’s largest consumer drone company. The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires! - DirJournal Blogs The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires! written by Hasan April 19, 2009 Billionaires are getting younger! These young billionaires stand out amongst hundreds of billionaires in their age group.

They are different from those that inherited their billions, because they started their own businesses and built them from ground up to reach the peak. Marc Zuckerberg – United States, Age: 23 Facebook has attracted more users than any other site can boast of. The founder is a young boy born on May 14, 1984 and named Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. This sky and reserved kid has an unparalleled brilliance. According to Forbes magazine, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world for 2008. He was born in a Jewish family and his father is a dentist. From his early years, he loved hacking into computers and wrote his own programs. He studied at Harvard, and the idea that brought him fame and money, a social networking site, was born in his dorm at Harvard, and the rest is history. His idea took fruition as Facebook, gaining unprecedented fame. He and his friend Andrew McCollum along with two other roommates, Dustin Moskovits and Chris Hughes started Facebook. Mark is the CEO of Facebook and his net worth is said to be $1.5 billion. Zuckerberg is the person responsible for the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook.

He currently leads the design of Facebook’s service and development of its infrastructure and core technology. He studied computer science at Harvard University and while he was there, he created a website called Facemash, that compared students’ dorm pictures kept side-by-side, to see which one is better looking (hot or not.) It was about a few months later that he launched Facebook. He also won the Crunchie Award in 2007 for the “Best Startup CEO.” Xiaofeng Peng – China. Age: 34 Xiaofeng Peng is a self-made billionaire with an estimated worth of $1.5 billion. Solar energy has been his ladder to success and wealth. When Peng was pondering the next move of his career, he realized that renewable energy is the future. Initially, he started out with a trading company in 2005, and it grew immensely to become one of the fastest growing suppliers of Chinese-made solar wafers in the world. These solar wafers are used in solar panels. His company, LDK Solar has also been listed on NASDAQ since 2007.

He graduated from Jiangxi Foreign Trade School in 1993 and went on to earn a diploma in international business from Beijing University Guanghua School of Management as well as an MBA degree in 2002. Prior to founding this company, he also founded Suzhou Liouxin, which is a leading manufacturer of personal protective equipment in Asia. Xiaofeng Peng is also fluent in Japanese and traveled America and Europe extensively. He is a man with a big vision and has built a company of more than 12,000 people, which continues to grow. As part of his next phase of expansion plans, LDK Solar has recently given a $220 million contract to Applied Materials Inc., for providing precision wafering systems. Peng states that he aims at making his company the largest and the most economic silicon wafer supplier in the world and he intends to do that both in terms of market share and sales volume. John Arnold – United States. Age: 34 John Arnold was a go-getter from a young age. He is on the list of current self-made billionaires and his net work is estimated to be $2.5 bil. His father was a lawyer and mom was an accountant.

He graduated from Vanderbilt University and after his studies, went on to work for Enron. He was 27 when he used Internet-based trading network to earn $750 million for Enron in 2001, when he was an oil trader for the company. He was rewarded $8 million in bonus. A year later, when Enron collapsed, he went into business himself and founded the hedge fund Centaurus Energy Advisors, LLC, based in Houston, Texas. For this, he is said to have used his $8 million bonus and other funds from selling his Enron stock just before its collapse. Sameer Gehlaut, India. Age: 34 Sameer Gehlaut whose net worth is calculated at 1.2 bil, is the youngest and the 45th richest in India, and one of the youngest billionaires in the world. He established Indiabulls in 2000. His first step was the acquisition of Inorbit Securities, a stock brokerage company in Delhi. The group initially operated from a small office with a tin roof, near Hauz Khas bus terminal in Delhi. All they had was two computers.

Fast forward ten years and the tin roof transformed in to a beautiful building on a 4000-acre land and the company has become one of the leading financial services and real estate companies in India. His educated consisted of a Mechanical Engineering degree from IIT, Delhi in 1995. As a young boy, he worked for Halliburton in the United States. He returned to India and started an earth moving and mining business, which is now taken care of by his family. He laid the foundation to his success when he started Indiabulls in 2000, when he was just 26 years old. He had help in the form of his two friends from IIT, Delhi; Rajiv Rattan Mittal and Saurabh Mittal, who are said to have a net worth of $500 million each. Indiabulls’ interests include consumer finance, mortgages, real estate, retail and power. The company’s market capitalization is a huge Rs. 25,000 crores. Larry Page, United States. Age: 35 Page is a self-made billionaire and there cannot be anyone on the internet who hasn’t heard of him.

He is the founder of the largest search engine, Google. He is ranked high on the list of billionaires with an estimated net worth of $18.6 billion. His background constituted of a computer engineering degree and a masters degree from Stanford University. Before completing this degree, he launched Google in 1998, along with his Russian born classmate, Sergey Brin, whose worth is said to be $18.5 billion. There is a small story that makes the rounds, saying that the two friends initially disliked each other until they eventually got closer due to their mutual interests. They even co-authored “The Anatomy of a Large Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine,” which is like a bestseller in the web world. Google proved to be an extremely successful venture that has seen an increase in revenue exponentially. At Google, Page holds the title of the President for Products. Since Google went public in 2004, there was a huge increase in business. He is said to make a lot of money from the well-known online advertising program, Google AdSense and Adwords. Apart from Google, he also invested in Tesla Motors, which is in the process of developing a battery operated vehicle.

The much-appreciated fact is that Page manages a $1 billion philanthropic organization and is known to spread his wealth whenever possible. Fortunes are made from being passionate about dreams. These self-made billionaires suggest that hard work, talent, the right attitude along with plenty of luck seem to be the vital ingredients to their huge success. image via: facebook.com/zuck The youngest self-made billionaires - Business Insider print 25-year-old Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel is the youngest billionaire in the world.Reuters Some of the wealthiest, most successful entrepreneurs take decades to accumulate their fortunes — others strike gold very early on. A recent report from Hurun , a Shanghai firm that releases yearly rankings and research about the world's richest people, rounded up the latter group of entrepreneurs: self-made billionaires under age 35. Read on to see who made the list — and just how wealthy they are, as estimated by Hurun: Evan Spiegel.AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Evan Spiegel: 25 Residence: Los Angeles, California Estimated wealth: $1.8 billion At the ripe age of 25, the Snapchat CEO is the youngest billionaire in the world after launching the popular photo-sharing app with two of his former Stanford classmates.

John Collison.Getty Images/Brian Ach Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $1 billion The Harvard dropout cofounded Stripe , an online payment company, with his brother Patrick in 2011. The Irish-born brothers now live in San Francisco, where the company is based. Bobby Murphy, left, and Evan Spiegel.Jemal Countess / Getty Images Bobby Murphy: 26 Residence: Venice, California Estimated wealth: $1.8 billion Just five years out of college, the CTO of Snapchat is one of the youngest billionaires in the world, along with his Snapchat cofounder Spiegel. The two met during their days as Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers at Stanford. Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $1.0 billion The Stripe cofounder and CEO dropped out of MIT to partner with his brother John and pursue an entrepreneurial path. Their start-up was most recently valued at $5 billion in October. Mark Zuckerberg.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Residence: Palo Alto, California Estimated wealth: $45 billion The Facebook cofounder and CEO became the youngest self-made billionaire in history at age 23, thanks to Facebook's IPO.

Today, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla are the ninth-wealthiest couple in the world and active philanthropists. Elizabeth Holmes.Courtesy Theranos Residence: Palo Alto, California Estimated wealth: $4.3 billion Holmes founded healthcare-technology company Theranos as a sophomore at Stanford. Within months, she dropped out to pursue her entrepreneurial path and build her company. Today, she's America's youngest female billionaire at age 31. Dustin Moskovitz.Asana Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $10 billion The Facebook cofounder was the company's first CTO. He left to launch Asana in 2008 with fellow Facebooker Justin Rosenstein, but Moskovitz still holds a significant stake in the company. Photos of Wang Yue are unavailable. He operates out of Shanghai, China. Shutterstock/Sean Pavone Wang Yue: 32 Residence: Shanghai, China Estimated wealth: $1.0 billion The CEO of Shanghai Kingnet Technology joined the ranks of the youngest billionaires this year . Formerly an executive at 51.com in China, Wang has turned Kingnet into a leading mobile game developer in China since becoming CEO in 2009.

Cheng Wei.YouTube/World Economic Forum Residence: Beijing, China Estimated wealth: $1.0 billion Wei is CEO of the ride hailing service Didi Kuaidi, similar to Uber. Before founding Didi Dache, he spent eight years at e-commerce firm Alibaba . Nathan Blecharczyk.Desmond Boylan/AP Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $3.6 billion The Harvard graduate was working as a product manager at Microsoft when his former roommate Joe Gebbia recruited him to cofound Airbnb. As the current CTO, he led the company's recent push into Cuba . Photos of He Zhitao are unavailable. His company is based out of Hangzhou, China.Shutterstock He Zhitao: 33 Residence: China Estimated wealth: $1.2 billion The Chinese software entrepreneur and CEO of Hangzhou Liaison Interactive Technology joined the young billionaires club in 2015, when the value of his shares in the company sent him from millionaire to billionaire status.

Eduardo Saverin.Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg via Getty Images Eduardo Saverin: 33 Residence: Singapore Estimated wealth: $5.6 billion The Facebook cofounder is no longer as involved in the company after legal disputes with his fellow cofounders, but he still holds a small stake in Facebook . The Brazilian-born entrepreneur is now an active angel investor as well as the director of 99 , a Singapore-based property rental and sales website. Residence: Bangalore, India Estimated wealth: $1.4 billion In 2007, Bansal teamed up with Binny Bansal — no relation, despite the same surname — to found Flipkart as an online seller of books. Today, it's I ndia's top internet retailer , with 30 million products and 44 million registered users. Sachin and Benny Bansal. TechnoFirst Binny Bansal: 34 Residence: Bangalore, India Estimated wealth: $1.4 billion The cofounder of Flipkart has been the chief operating officer for years, but is slated to take over as CEO . Sachin, the CEO since the early days of Flipkart, will take on the newly created role of executive chairman.

Photos of Lin Qui are unavailable. He resides in Shanghai, China. Wikimedia Commons Lin Qi: 34 Residence: Shanghai, China Estimated wealth: $1.5 billion After two business flops, Lin Qi founded web gaming company Youzu with 10 people in 2009 . He reached billionaire status in 2014 after Susino Umbrella bought his company. Today, Lin serves as chairman of Youzu. Joe Gebbia.TED2016 Residence: San Francisco, California Estimated wealth: $3.6 billion After starting a handful of smaller, less profitable business and tech ventures , Gebbia struck gold when he cofounded Airbnb with Blecharczy. He currently serves as the company's chief product officer. Photos of Zhang Bangxin are unavailable. He resides in Beijing, China.Shutterstock Zhang Bangxin: 35 Residence: Beijing, China Estimated wealth: $1.3 billion The cofounder of education services firm TAL Education has served as chairman and CEO since the company's inception. He was named China's entrepreneur of the year in 2013 .

Youngest Self Made Billionaire in the World Europe Youngest Self Made Billionaire in the World After listing out the name of the richest people from various countries, now we present the name of world’s youngest self made billionaire. 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. #1) 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. #2) 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. #3) Eduardo Saverin 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. #4) Sean Parker 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. #5) 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. #6) 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.

#7) Jack Dorsey 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. #8) 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. #9) Chase Coleman, III. 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. #10) Ryan Kavanaugh 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 #13) Gary Fegel – $1 billion #14) Kostyantin Zhevago – $1.5 billion #15) Fang Wei – $1.5 billion #16) Sergey Brin – $22.8 billion #17) Larry Page – $23 billion 7 Youngest Self-Made Billionaires (self-made millionaires, young self-made) - ODDEE Tweet They may be young, but the following seven people had the vision and drive to turn themselves into billionaires before they reached the ripe "old" age of forty. 1 Yusaku Maezawa: from rock star to mega-rich retailer by age 35 Yusaku Maezawa is a former rock musician who started selling CDs and band t-shirts online back in the early 1990's. He then started a company called Start Today, along with a wildly-successful e-commerce site called Zozotown.

Zozotown is set up like a mall, with different shops for different types of fashion and other products that are all sold on consignment. The company has doubled its value every year since it was established in 2005, and Zozotown currently has over 3 million subscribers (one must subscribe in order to access Zozotown). At age 35, Maezawa is a billionaire and his company is still flourishing despite hard economic times felt elsewhere in the world. ( Source | Photo ) 2 Mark Zuckerberg: the 26 year-old geek who created an empire Twenty-six year-old Mark Zuckerberg is the computer savvy Harvard student who created a little website you might have heard of called Facebook. Though there is some controversy over who came up with the idea for the social networking site (see the 2010 blockbuster "The Social Network" ), there is no denying that it was Zuckerberg's hard work and brain power that brought Facebook to life and made it the most popular social networking site online today. To date, Zuckerberg has made over 13.8 billion U.S. dollars.

To his credit, Zuckerberg has already donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities and recently pledged to donate over half of his fortune to charity either over the course of his lifetime or after his death. ( Source 1 | Source 2 | Photo ) 3 Yoshikazu Tanaka: the 34 year-old who wants to rule the (social media) world Watch out, Zuckerberg... Yoshikazu Tanaka is coming for you! Founder of Japan's largest social networking site, Gree, Tanaka (age 34) is already worth over $2.2 billion. Tanaka aims for global expansion and will soon establish a California office for Gree. The name "Gree" is a play on the expression, "Six degrees of separation." ( Source 1 | Source 2 | Photo ) 4 Dustin Moskovitz: the 26 year-old who had the best college roommate ever Just 8 days younger than his Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz was Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate and Facebook's third employee. Serving as Facebook's first Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering, Moskovitz amassed a self-worth of over $2.7 billion.

He left Facebook in 2008 to start his own company, Asana. ( Source | Photo ) 5 Oleg Bakhmatyuk: an egg-cellent 35 year-old business man This 35-year-old from western Ukraine is the majority owner of Avangard, Ukraine's largest producer and exporter of chicken eggs. Yes, chicken eggs! Bakhmatyuk worked previously in the lucrative state gas and oil industry, but moved into egg and egg products because he thinks that businesses will be increasingly interested in feeding the world's hungry people in the future. ( Source | Photo ) 6 Sergey Brin: you might not know this 38 year-old's name, but you probably used his website today This thirty-eight year-old Russian-American computer scientist and industrialist co-founded Google, the world's largest Internet company, with Larry Page. As of 2011, his personal wealth is estimated to be $19.8 billion. ( Source | Photo ) 7 Xiaofeng Peng: the 36 year-old who makes money from the sun. Xiaofeng Peng, age 36, is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of LDK Solar Co., Ltd.

He founded the company in July 2005 and it went public in 2007; it is now worth over $1.8 billion. Peng has made his own personal fortune of $1.5 billion all through renewable solar energy. ( Source 1 | Source 2 | Photo ) From the Web

Question: As at 2011 who is the world's youngest self-made billionaire?
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg