There are 1426 billionaires in the world this year. They are the richest of the rich. However, only 23 people from the upper class list is under the age of 40 years, with an interesting combination of money and youth.
A total of 23 people had total cash of $ 68 billion (around Rp657 trillion). Eight of them are from the technology sector, including four people from the social networking giant Facebook.
Nine of them are from the United States, the rest from abroad. Three people are newcomers to the billionaire ranking. Read the complete list below (sequentially starting from the youngest to the oldest) :
No. 1: Dustin MoskovitzAge: 28Net worth: $ 3.8 billionMoskovitz,
former roommate of Mark Zuckerberg, is no longer employed at Facebook,
the giant social networking site established with him. Participate
in charity Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, Giving Pledge, Moskovitz
riding a bicycle to work, flying with commercial airlines, and build
their own camp at Burning Man.
No. 2: Mark ZuckerbergAge: 28Net worth: $ 13.3 billion
No CEO more media attention than Zuckerberg (who is only 8 days older than Moskovitz). Facebook
to go public since the public in May 2012, and were married a few days
later, millionaires saw their wealth rise and fall in value with every
fluctuation of stock prices.
No. 3: Albert von Thurn und TaxisAge: 29Net worth: $ 1.5 billion Albert
von Thurn und Taxis first appeared in Forbes billionaires ranking at
age 8, but officially inherited his fortune in 2001, the day of his 18th
birthday. He was also a race car driver and a tour with the German auto racing league.
No. 4: Scott DuncanAge: 30Net worth: $ 5.1 billion Duncan
was the youngest of four brothers who inherited a large fortune from
his late father, businessman, and energy conduit Duncan, founder of
Enterprise Products Partners. At present, the company has more than 50,000 miles of natural gas, oil and petrochemical pipelines.
No. 5: Eduardo SaverinAge: 30Net worth: $ 2.2 billion
One
of the founders of Facebook, Saverin abandon U.S. citizenship in 2011,
the news broke a few days before the Facebook IPO and raised accusations
of tax evasion. Saverin,
immortalized in "The Social Network" as Mark Zuckerberg's ex-best
friend, completed the lengthy legal battle with Facebook and receive a 5
percent stake. He now lives in Singapore and invest in the software.
No. 6: Yang HuiyanAge: 31Net worth: $ 5.7 billion Yang, the daughter of the founder of the luxury home developer Country Garden Holdings, is the richest woman in China. His father transferred its shares to a female graduate of Ohio State before the company's IPO in 2007.
No. 7: Fahd HaririAge: 32Net worth: $ 1.35 billion Fahd Hariri is the youngest son of the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He graduated from the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture de Paris in 2004. While
still a student, he runs an interior design studio on the outskirts of
town, and selling furniture to clients in Saudi Arabia.
No. 8: Marie Besnier BeauvalotAge: 32Net worth: $ 1.5 billion Marie,
along with his siblings Emmanuel (42) and Jean-Michel (45), inherited
the French dairy giant LACTALIS, popular manufacturer of Président brie
cheese in addition to hundreds of brands of cheese, yogurt and other
milk.
No. 9: Sean ParkerAge: 33Net worth: $ 2 billion Parker
remodel beginning Airtime promotion, with the hope that the site's
video conversation would have implications for other Web companies. At the age of 19, Parker skipped college to disrupt the recording industry with Napster music exchange sites. He served as the first president of Facebook at age 24.
No. 10: Ayman HaririAge: 34Net worth: $ 1.35 billion Hariri is the son of late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He
was involved in running the Saudi Oger, one of the largest construction
company in Saudi Arabia, and the source of wealth of the Hariri family.
Saturday, 9 March 2013
World's Youngest Billionaire
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