Evan Spiegel: 25
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Evan Spiegel.
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
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John Collison.
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
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Bobby Murphy, left, and Evan Spiegel.
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.
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Mark Zuckerberg.
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.
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Elizabeth Holmes.
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
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Dustin Moskovitz.
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.
Wang Yue: 32
Estimated wealth: $1.0 billion
The CEO of Shanghai Kingnet Technology joined the ranks of the youngest billionaires this year. Formerly an executive at 51.com in China, Wang has turned Kingnet into a leading mobile game developer in China since becoming CEO in 2009.
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Cheng Wei.
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
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Nathan Blecharczyk.
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.
