1.Larry Page
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| Larry Page |
2.Mark Zuckerberg
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| Mark Zuckerberg |
3.Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila
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| Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila |
Being the eldest son of the late Colombian beer king Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo has its perks, including an $11.7 billion fortune. Davila, 36, also made a name for himself as he sits on the board of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is the managing director of a New York-based investment advisory firm.
4.Albert Maria Lamoral Miguel Johannes Gabriel Prinz von Thurn und Taxis
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| Albert Maria Lamoral Miguel Johannes |
5.Dustin Moskovitz
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| Dustin Moskovitz |
Dustin Moskovitz, 29, co-founded Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg. Leaving Facebook in 2008, this $3.8 billion computer engineer went on to develop Asana, a mobile application designed to enable teamwork without email. Despite his enormous wealth, Moskovitz continues to live a moderate lifestyle.
6.Scott Duncan
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| Scott Duncan |
With an estimated net worth of $5.5 billion, Scott Duncan is easily one of the richest men in the world. Duncan, 30, gained his billions by inheriting it from the family fortune. His late father, Dan Duncan, was a energy pipeline entrepreneur and owned Enterprise Products Partners. The company now owns over 50,000 miles of natural gas, oil, and petrochemical pipelines.
7.Sean Parker
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| Sean Parker |
At the age of 31, Sean Parker became the first president of the largest social media service in the world known as Facebook. He also co-founded the file sharing service Napster. This 34-year-old is one of the richest entrepreneurs in the world with a net worth of $2.1 billion.
As an industrious high school student Sean Parker interned for some
powerful people, reportedly worked on projects for the CIA, and was
earning more than $80,000 a year by the time he graduated from high
school. Like many other billionaires, Parker did not graduate from
college.Parker devotes much of his personal time and wealth to many charitable causes, as well as founding some charities of his own. While many wealthy people contribute to social causes for the tax breaks that are earned, Parker claims to be doing so for purely philanthropic reasons. In recent years he has spoken in favor of levying higher taxes on the wealthy.
8.Huiyan Yang
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| Huiyan Yang |
Despite being a Chinese national, Huiyan Yang graduated from Ohio State University in 2003. Shortly after her graduation, her father transferred the majority of the shares of Country Garden Holdings into her name. When the company made its IPO in 2007, the capital raised from the IPO skyrocketed her net worth. Her company’s IPO generated more capital than Google did with their IPO. This made her the wealthiest woman in all of China at the age of just 26 (at the time).
Huiyan’s father, Yang Guoqiang, is one of the most successful businessmen in all of mainland China. Huiyan’s company is a real estate company that controls a lot of important real estate world wide. The net worth of her company is estiamated at times to be upwards of $17 Billion.
9.Yvonne Bauer
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Worth over $2.4 billion, Yvonne Bauer
made her fortune by being the daughter of world famous publisher Heinz
Bauer. Only 37-years-old, this billionaire now leads the German media
company Bauer Media Group and is one of the richest women in the world.
She is a 5th generation publisher in the Bauer Media Group.
Bauer Media Group is responsible for the publication of over 600 magazines in various countries, making Yvonne one of the more powerful women in the corporate world. In addition to magazines, her company also oversees many Radio and TV stations worldwide, as well as online media publications. While primarily based out of Germany, Yvonne Bauer’s business takes her to places all over the world such as Australia, New Zealand, England, The US, etc.
Her personal wealth is only a small portion of the total wealth of her family, making them one of the wealthiest families in the world. Many others in her family are equally as wealthy, depite not having the same public profile as Yvonne. Her attitude and success has made her a role model for many women aspiring to make an impact in the business world all across the globe.
10.Ayman Hariri
Ayman Hariri was born into his $1.35 billion wealth. This 34-year-old is the son of of the deceased Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He is also one of the leaders involved in running Saudi Oger, one of the biggest construction companies in the Middle East. Before inhereiting his father’s fortune Ayman worked with Oger Telecom, a large telecommunications provider in Africa and the Middle East.
Forbes lists Ayman Hariri as the 618th richest person in the world, regardless of age. He and his siblings acquired portions of their father’s $4.1 billion wealth after he was assassinated, supposedly by Hezbollah militants. Ayman Hariri served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011. He left office shortly after the collapse of his government in 2011. Fallout and speculation from the assassination of his father caused many people in the government to voluntarily resign from office.
In more recent years, Hariri was accused by the Syrian government for providing financial assistance to Syrian rebels during their civil war. Hariri’s wife is a Syrian national from a wealthy family. Ayman Hariri maintains his innocence in the matter, despite an arrest warrant being issued by Bashir Al-Assad of Syria.
Bauer Media Group is responsible for the publication of over 600 magazines in various countries, making Yvonne one of the more powerful women in the corporate world. In addition to magazines, her company also oversees many Radio and TV stations worldwide, as well as online media publications. While primarily based out of Germany, Yvonne Bauer’s business takes her to places all over the world such as Australia, New Zealand, England, The US, etc.
Her personal wealth is only a small portion of the total wealth of her family, making them one of the wealthiest families in the world. Many others in her family are equally as wealthy, depite not having the same public profile as Yvonne. Her attitude and success has made her a role model for many women aspiring to make an impact in the business world all across the globe.
10.Ayman Hariri
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| Ayman Hariri |
Forbes lists Ayman Hariri as the 618th richest person in the world, regardless of age. He and his siblings acquired portions of their father’s $4.1 billion wealth after he was assassinated, supposedly by Hezbollah militants. Ayman Hariri served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011. He left office shortly after the collapse of his government in 2011. Fallout and speculation from the assassination of his father caused many people in the government to voluntarily resign from office.
In more recent years, Hariri was accused by the Syrian government for providing financial assistance to Syrian rebels during their civil war. Hariri’s wife is a Syrian national from a wealthy family. Ayman Hariri maintains his innocence in the matter, despite an arrest warrant being issued by Bashir Al-Assad of Syria.
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