How can the list of youngest billionaire be without having Zuckerberg at the top? Zuckerberg is known to all but there are many other youngsters apart from him who got the caliber and flush with cash. Few of them inherit their fortunes but many continue to work hard to earn this status in their respective fields. According to Business Insider, Bankrate has come up with a report of top nine youngest billionaires around the world, who are younger than 35 and enjoy the billionaire status. Let’s check it out below.
Mark ZuckerbergAge: 28
Net worth: $17 billion
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of four co-founders of the social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook. Since 2010 Zuckerberg has been named among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world by Time magazine's Person of the Year, In 2010 a fictionalized account of Zuckerberg creating Facebook while in college and its later start-up phase was made into a movie dramatization, The Social Network.
Fahd HaririAge: 31
Net worth: $1.3 billion
He is a Lebanon national with a net worth of $1.5 billion and his age is 30 years. He is the son of slain Labanese Prime minister Rafik Hariri and inherited stake in Rafik’s construction, telecom and real estate conglomerate called Saudi Oger after the death of Premier in 2005. Saudi Oger Ltd. is a private company, wholly owned by the Rafik Hariri family, Since its inception, Saudi Oger Ltd, has grown into a multi-company, multi-divisional organization with subsidiaries and affiliates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad. With the fusion of western technical expertise achieved from its overseas subsidiaries and the Middle Eastern knowledge and experience, the Company has become the center of construction for prestigious and complex projects of advanced technology throughout the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Ayman HaririAge: 34
Net worth: $1.3 billion
Like his brother, Fahd Hariri, Ayman Hariri received a sizable amoung of his late father's wealth (along with his three other siblings). He fills the role of family's tech geek. He is a board member of 3C telecommunications which is a South African mobile operator and is majority-owned by Saudi Oger. Then started closely held identity management software firm Epok; signed Dubai International Airport as a customer in 2004.
Albert Von Thurn Und TaxisAge: 29
Net worth: $1.5 billion
He inherited his billions on his 18th birthday in 2001. Albert Maria Lamoral Miguel Johannes Gabriel, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (or, legally, Albert Prinz von Thurn und Taxis) is a German aristocrat. He has been listed as the world's youngestbillionaire many times since his father's death in 1990. He first appeared on the list when he was age eight. His mother, Gloria), was a popular media figure in the 1980s, and was instrumental in preserving his fortune until he was old enough to inherit it. He has two older sisters: Maria Theresia and Elisabeth
Robert PeraAge: 34
Net worth: $1.5 billion
Robert J. Pera is the Founder of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since October 2003. From January 2003 to February 2005, Pera was a wireless engineer with consumer technology company Apple. He serves as a Director of Ubiquiti Networks. His company, Ubiquiti Networks, went public in October 2011 and left Pera as a young billionaire. However, all isn't green for Pera. In a volatile stock market, he sees his net worth frequently rise and fall. On June 11, 2012, sources told ESPN.com that Heisley has an agreement in principle to sell the Memphis Grizzlies to communications technology magnate Robert Pera, who at 34 has a spot on Forbes' list of the 10 youngest billionaries in the world.
Eduardo SaverinAge: 30
Net worth: $2 billion
Eduardo Luiz Saverin is a Brazilian internet entrepreneur and investor. Saverin is one of four co-founders of Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. As of 2012, he owns less than 5 percent of Facebook's shares and has a net worth of $2 billion, according to Forbes. He has also invested in early-stage startups such as Qwiki and Jumio. A lawsuit filed by Saverin against Facebook was settled out of court. Though terms of the settlement were not disclosed, the company affirmed Saverin's title as co-founder of Facebook. Saverin signed a non-disclosure contract after the settlement. As of 2010, Saverin has liquidated at least $250 million worth of Facebook stock to later-stage investors such as Digital Sky Technologies, as well as via secondary exchanges like SharesPost.
Sean ParkerAge: 32
Net worth: More than $2 billion
Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur who was a co-founder of the file-sharing computer service Napster and the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, and Airtime. As of March 2012, Parker's net worth was estimated to be $2.1 billion.
Dustin Moskovitz
Age: 28
Net worth: More than $3.5 billion
Dustin Moskovitz is an American billionaire internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking website Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana with Justin Rosenstein. In March 2011 Forbes ranked Moskovitz as the world's youngest self-made billionaire on the basis of his 7.6 percent share in Facebook. He left in 2008 to start Asana, a collaboration and messaging software company that is aiming at tracking "the collective memory of organizations." Moskovitz sold a 1 percent stake in Facebook, but vows not to change his life much. He bikes to work and flies commercial.
Scott DuncanAge: 29
Net worth: Around $4 billion
Scott Duncan, the only billionaire in his 20s who didn't strike it rich with Facebook. He and his siblings assumed control of the family's $12.4 billion pipeline empire after their father Dan Duncan's death last March. Scott Duncan is one of four children of the late energy pipeline entrepreneur Dan Duncan, the former richest man in Houston, who died in 2010 at age 77. Scott added $1 billion to his fortune in the last year as the company Enterprise Products share price climbed by one-fourth.
Yang HuiyanAge: 30
Net worth: Around $4.7 billion
Yang Huiyan is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings and one of the wealthiest people in Mainland China, with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion as of March 2009. She is the daughter of Yang Guoqiang, who started his company Biguiyuan in 1997 and transferred 70 percent of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO in 2007. The wealthiest mainland Chinese in the previous year, 2006, was Huang Guangyu. Country Garden's initial offering raised about $1.6 billion, or as much as Google raised in 2004 in the United States. Yang's net worth was estimated at $16.2 billion in October 2007. Yang is a 2003 graduate of The Ohio State University.
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