This List Of World's 15 Youngest Tech Billionaires Will Make You Rethink About Your Life Choices
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 all from the tech world made it to the list -- and just how wealthy they are, as estimated by Hurun:
1. Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 31
Professional qualification: Facebook CEO
Estimated wealth: $45 billion
The Facebook co-founder 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.
2. Eduardo Saverin
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Age: 33
Professional qualification: Facebook co-founder
Estimated wealth: $5.6 billion
The Facebook co-founder is no longer as involved in the company after legal disputes with his fellow co-founders, 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.
3. Sachin Bansal
Financial Express
Age: 34
Professional qualification: Flipkart co-founder
Estimated wealth: $1.4 billion
In 2007, Bansal teamed up with Binny Bansal ¡ª no relation, despite the same surname ¡ª to found Flipkart as an online seller of books. Today, it's India's top internet retailer, with 30 million products and 44 million registered users.
4. Binny Bansal
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Age: 34
Professional qualification: Flipkart co-founder
Estimated wealth: $1.4 billion
The co-founder 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.
5.Dustin Moskovitz
Age: 31
Professional qualification: Facebook CTO
Estimated wealth: $10 billion
The Facebook co-founder 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.
6. Nathan Blecharczyk
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Age: 32
Professional qualification: Airbnb co-founder
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 co-found Airbnb. As the current CTO, he led the company's recent push into Cuba.
7. Joe Gebbia
Age: 34
Professional qualification: Airbnb co-founder
Estimated wealth: $3.6 billion
After starting a handful of smaller, less profitable business and tech ventures, Gebbia struck gold when he co-founded Airbnb with Blecharczy. He currently serves as the company's chief product officer.
8. Evan Spiegel
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Age: 25
Professional qualification: Snapchat CEO
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.
9. Bobby Murphy
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Age: 26
Professional qualification: Snapchat CTO
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 co-founder Spiegel. The two met during their days as Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers at Stanford.
10. John Collison
Wired
Age: 26
Professional qualification: Stripe co-founder
Estimated wealth: $1 billion
The Harvard dropout co-founded 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.
11. Patrick Collison
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Age: 27
Professional qualification: Stripe co-founder
Estimated wealth: $1.0 billion
The Stripe co-founder 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.
12. Elizabeth Holmes
Business Insider
Age: 31
Professional qualification: Theranos co-founder
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.
13. Scott Farquhar
Business Insider
Age: 35
Professional qualification: Atlassian co-founder
Estimated wealth: $1.9 billion
The Australia native co-founded 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.
14. Mike Cannon-Brookes
Forbes
Age: 35
Professional qualification: Atlassian CEO
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.
15. Frank Wang Tao
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Age: 35
Professional qualification: Dajiang Innovation Technology founder
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.
