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.
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.
No.
16: Serra Sabanci
Age:
37
Net
Worth: $1.3 billion
Sabanci
is the daughter of Ozdemir Sabanci who was assassinated in 1996, and a board
member of the large conglomerate Sabanci Holding.
Nicholas
Woodman: The Mad Billionaire Behind GoPro, The World's Hottest Camera Company
No.
17: Nicholas Woodman
Age:
37
Net
Worth: $1.3 billion
GoPro
founder and CEO Nick Woodman built the first camera prototypes in his bedroom
with his mom’s sewing machine and a drill. GoPro came out with its first
camera, a 35-millimeter waterproof film version, in 2004. Today, the camera shoots
full video in cinema quality HD, allowing anyone from professional surfer Kelly
Slater to amateur snowboarders to capture their adventures.
No.
18: Chase Coleman
Age:
37
Net
Worth: $1.4 billion
The
hottest young money manager on the planet, Coleman cooled off a touch in 2012,
but his Tiger Global hedge fund extended its impressive winning streak,
finishing a third straight year with a net return in excess of 20%.
No.
19: Ryan Kavanaugh
Age:
38
Net
Worth: $1 billion
Ryan
Kavanaugh joins the billionaire ranks for the first time this year thanks to
his movie studio, Relativity. Kavanaugh is making money by hitting singles and
doubles like the recent Safe Haven, which cost $25 million to make and has
grossed more than $50 million at the box office.
No.
20: Andrey Verevskiy
Age:
38
Net
Worth: $1 billion
Verevskiy
started trading in grain when he was 19 and founded Kernel Holding a decade
later, growing it into Ukraine’s largest sunflower oil producer. Last year,
Verevskiy was elected to Ukraine’s Parliament.
No.
21: John Arnold
Age:
38
Net
Worth: $2.8 billion
Arnold
shocked the hedge fund world in May 2012 when he announced he was calling it a
career at age 38. Arnold and his wife Laura, who are signatories of the Giving
Pledge, plan to devote much of their time to philanthropy. The couple have
already given away more than $1.2 billion.
No.
22: Gary Fegel
Age:
39
Net
Worth: $1 billion
Gary
Fegel attained billionaire status in May 2011 in the wake of Glencore’s IPO.
After earning his MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Fegel joined the
alumina and aluminum department at the commodities titan in 2001.
Reference: FORBES
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