15 tech billionaires below 40yrs and the ideas that made them billionaires continues..
9. Joe Gebbia
Net worth: $3.3 billion Age: 33 Source: Airbnb
Joe Gebbia together with Brian Chesky and Nathan Bleacharczyk founded Airbnb in 2008 and he is the Chief Product Officer.
8. Nathan Bleacharczyk
Net worth: $3.3 billion Age: 32 Source: Airbnb
Nathan Bleacharczyk is the third of the co-founders of Airbnb and is the Chief Technology Officer of the company.
7. Frank Wang
Net worth: $3.6 billion Age: 34 Source:Drones
Frank Wang is the founder and CEO of China-based Da-Jiang Innovations Science and Technology Co (DJI) a drone manufacturing company. Frank started DJI with a borrowed $250k and today, the company is the world’s largest drone manufacturer with a valuation of $10 billion.
6. Eduardo Saverin
Net worth: $5.7 billion Age: 33 Source: Facebook
Eduardo is one of the Harvard undergraduates who came up with the idea of Facebook. As the co-founder of Facebook, majority of his wealth comes from his ample shares in the social media company.
5. Gareth Camp
Net worth: $6 billion Age: 36 Source: Uber Technologies
As a post-grad student Gareth in 2002 founded StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool and in 2007 sold it to ebay for $75 million. In 2009, the Canadian co-founded Uber, an online car-hire service. Uber’s services which dominates in major US cities has its operations active in 58 countries. The company is currently valued at $50 billion.
4. Travis Kalanick
Net worth: $6 billion Age: 38 Source: Uber Technologies
Co- founder and CEO of Uber Technologies. He founded a peer-peer file sharing service which he sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007 for $18 million.
3. Jan Koum
Net worth: $8 billion Age: 39 Source: Whatsapp
Founder of Whatsapp, the world largest instant messaging app with over 800 million users. Sold Whatsapp to Facebook for $19 billion in february 2014.
2. Dustin Moskovitz
Net worth: $9.6 billion Age: 31 Source: Facebook
Dustin Moskovitz is the second wealthiest of the co-founders of Facebook, formed by five room mates. He left Facebook in 2008 to form a software company Asana. In 2012 Forbes announced him the richest self-made billionaire in history.
1. Mark Zuckerberg
Net worth: $41.2 billion Age: 31 Source: Facebook
Founder of Facebook, at 23, Facebook already made Mark a billionaire. He is the chairman, CEO and richest of all 5 co-founders of the most popular social media on earth. With about 1.49 billion monthly users, Facebook employs a total of 11,000 people worldwide.
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