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 Facebook . Eleven come
from the United States, the rest from
countries abroad. Five are newcomers to the
billionaire ranks. Read the full list below.
No. 1: Dustin Moskovitz
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.
No. 5: Eduardo Saverin
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.
No. 6: Huiyan Yang
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.
Jack Dorsey
No. 8: Marie Besnier Beauvalot
Age: 32
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Marie, along with siblings Emmanuel, 42,
and Jean-Michel, 45, inherited French dairy
giant Lactalis, producers of popular
Président brie among hundreds of other
cheese, milk and yogurt brands.
No. 9: Sean Parker
Age: 33
Net Worth: $2 billion
Parker is revamping his much hyped start-
up, Airtime, with the hopes that the video
chat site will have the impact of his other
Web companies. At 19, Parker skipped
college to disrupt the recording industry
with music swapping site Napster. He
served as Facebook’s first president at age
24.
No. 10: Ayman Hariri
Age: 34
Net Worth: $1.35 billion
Hariri is the son of slain Lebanese Prime
Minister Rafik Hariri. He’s involved in running
Saudi Oger, one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest
construction companies, and the source of
the Hariri family fortune.
No. 11: Yvonne Bauer
Age: 35
Net Worth: $2.4 billion
Bauer owns 85% of her family’s publishing
empire. She is the fifth generation of the
family to run the Bauer Media Group, which
was founded in 1875. It publishes 570
magazines in 16 countries.
No. 12: Yoshikazu Tanaka
Age: 36
Net Worth: $1.8 billion
Founder and CEO of social-network game
site operator Gree, Tanaka has faced stiff
competition this year from archrival DeNA
and a game initiative by NTT DoCoMo, the
giant cellphone carrier. To get back on track,
Tanaka moved to partner with Yahoo Japan
and went on a buying spree.
No. 13: Maxim Nogotkov
Age: 36
Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Nogotkov got his start selling computer
programs while in school and later began
selling cordless phones. He dropped out of
college in order to have more time to focus
on building his business. He later founded
cell phone retailer Svyaznoy.
No. 14: Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila
Age: 36
Net Worth: $11.7 billion
A Harvard history grad, Domingo Davila is
the eldest son from his jet-setting beer
magnate father’s second marriage. Now a
managing director at a New York-based
investment advisory firm, Alejandro sits on
the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York.
No. 15: Jack Dorsey
Age: 36
Net Worth: $1.1 billion
Dorsey made a name for himself as a
cofounder and leader of 140-character
microblogging company Twitter, but most
of his fortune is derived from his stake in
mobile payment company Square. The New
York University dropout is a certified
masseur known for his eclectic interests,
which include, among other things, punk
music and clothes.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2013/03/04/the-worlds-youngest-billionaires-23-under-40/2/

Interestin!!!!!

Mr op ur list is nt complete,wey my name ?

Dr Idowu : Future Trillionaire, watch out

by the special grace of GOD i wil make that list...

yomieluv.

Networth:$100billion

occupation:oil magnate.

soon to join................

I notice these things.
One is that some of them inherited their wealth, the ones that started their company had to drop out of school to focus on the growth of their company even the ones that inherited their wealth has been busy acquiring the basic knowledge in order to manage the wealth effectively. That is not the case with many children of the rich in Nigeria most of them only lazy around spending money anyhow waiting for their father's dead to inherit and run down their inheritance only few here are focus and ready to continue where their father stop

This list is not complete and therefore not authentic

Shit list..

What of our very own sweetus oyoyo yuzedo??

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very soon, by God's grce my name will be number 1

Nonso23: BILLIONS.... THAT 1000 MILLIONS RIGHT?

in dollars again...

Osax2rule: in dollars again...

Choi...... OMG.....and I'm here looking for 20 naira to soak garri?
Got to sharpen up abeg. #heads out.

will all diz wealth take dem to heaven....plss 4qive me if i say end time tinz....

Passing by..........na my turn