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: 26
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: 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
Patrick Collison: 27
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: 31
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: 31
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: 31
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.
Cheng Wei: 32
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: 32
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.
Eduardo Saverin: 33 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.
Sachin Bansal: 34
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
India's top internet retailer, with 30 million products and 44 million
registered users.
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.
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.
Scott Farquhar: 35
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.
Mike Cannon-Brookes: 35
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.
Frank Wang Tao: 35
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.
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.
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