Forbes list: Who are the youngest billionaires in the world

We present the list of rich people who have not yet reached the age of 40, made for 2011 by Forbes
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Ažurirano: 28.07.2011. 13:24h

There are about 20 youngest billionaires in the world who have enormous wealth. The wealth they have is growing more and more every day. All of them have one thing in common, and that is that they created or inherited huge sums of money and achieved their dreams before they turned 40.

Yusaku Maezawa 35 years

A former rock musician who first started selling CDs and band t-shirts online in the early 90s. "Zozotown" was initially a small site, with different shops for different types of fashion and other products that he sold and shipped.

"Zozotown" today has more than 3 million subscribers (you must subscribe to access the Zozotown site). He created this by the time he was 35, 1 billion dollars and his company is still growing despite the world economic crisis that still reigns.

Mark Zuckerberg 26 years

Founder of the Facebook social network. At its very beginning, it was intended only for Harvard University students who could communicate and exchange information with each other. Later, many other universities, high schools and then large companies of the world joined the Facebook social network.

Today, Mark possesses incredible wealth 13,8 billion dollars and is among the leaders of the youngest rich people in the world. Zuckerberg has already given away hundreds of thousands of dollars to charity, and has pledged to donate more than half of his fortune to charity either during his lifetime or after his death.

Sergei Brin 38 years

We all know with whom and what he founded and of course invented. Today, we can hardly imagine the Internet without Google. The beginnings of creating the world's largest search engine begin in a garage. Thirty-eight-year-old Sergey is a computer expert of Russian origin and co-founder of Google with Larry Page. His wealth in 2011 is estimated at 19,8 billions of dollars

Yoshikazu Tanaka 34 years

Founder of the largest Japanese social network Gree. By August 2010, the network had 21.25 million users.

Tanaka owns a fortune of from 2,2 billions of dollars.

Dustin Moskovic 26 years

Only eight days younger than his colleague and former partner of the Facebook empire, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovic, Zuckerberg's third employee at the very beginning of the social network Facebook. First Head of Technology and Vice President of Engineering.

Moskovic is now estimated by some to be worth $2,7 billion. In 2008, he left Facebook and started his own company, Asana.

Oleg Bakhmatyuk 35 years

Oleg who is 35 years old comes from western Ukraine and is the majority owner of Avangardco. Otherwise, he is also called the "king of eggs". His company is the largest producer and exporter of chicken eggs in Ukraine. Bakhmatyuk made a fortune from eggs. His golden eggs brought him 1 billion dollars and the fortune is increasing. Oleg plans to expand to the whole of Europe.

Albert von Thurn and Taxis 27 years

His fortune is estimated at around 2 billion dollars, he officially inherited the fortune in 2001 on his 18th birthday. Today, Albert has assets worth nearly $2 billion in real estate, art, and technology. In addition, he owns 30.000 hectares of forest in Germany. He plans to build one of the world's largest solar farms in Bavaria, in the south of Germany, to sell electricity. He lives in the family castle, Schloss Emmeram.

Scott Duncan 28 years

He owns an energy empire worth 12,4 billion dollars, which his father Dan Duncan built all his life. His father started Enterprise with two trucks in 1968. By the way, Dan Duncan was poor, but with his work and perseverance, he built a huge company that is still operating successfully today

Eduardo Saverin 29 years

He owns 1,6 billion dollars. Started together with Mark Zuckerberg on the social network Facebook at Harvard and got 30 percent of this company. Now, according to some stories, he only holds 2 percent of Facebook.

Yang Huiyan 29 years old

Major shareholder (now owner) of "Country Garden Holdings" in Guangzhou, a real estate agency founded by her father. Her fortune is estimated at about 4,1 billion dollars. Her father left her to run the company when he retired from the public eye in Hong Kong in 2007. Yang graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in Marketing and Logistics.

Fahd Hariri 30 years old

He is the youngest son of the assassinated Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He inherited part of his father's fortune. Fahd owns Future TV, a satellite and terrestrial television network covering the entire Middle East. He lives in Paris. His fortune is about 1,5 billion dollars

Sean Parker 30 years

He has $1,6 billion in his bank account. The strategist and former president of Facebook became a billionaire by increasing the value of the social network. Today, his stake in Facebook is about 3 percent. Co-founder of Nepster and one of the key players in Facebook.

Serra Sabanci 37 years old

1 billion dollars rich at her disposal. Member of the Management Board and owner of the large conglomerate Sabanci Holding and member of the Board of Directors of the Sabanci Board. She returned to the list of billionaires this year, after falling in 2009. She inherited a fortune from her father, Ozdemir Sabanci, who was assassinated in 1996 in his office in Istanbul by leftists.

Kostyantin Zhevago 37 years

from Ukraine has a wealth of 2,4 billion dollars. The billionaire who benefited the most from the increase in iron ore prices, his wealth has almost doubled in the last year. He also owns Ukrainian FC Vorskla.

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