No.
1: Dustin Moskovitz
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.
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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.
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.
No.
23: Kostyantin Zhevago
Age: 39
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Son of a mining engineer, Kostyantin Zhevago took
over Poltava Iron Ore, the largest exporter of pellets in CIS, at the age of
twenty two, and in 2007 he took his mining company Ferrexpo public. An avid
soccer fan, Zhevago owns FC Vorska football.
No
24: Dan Gertler
Age: 39
Net Worth: $2.2 billion
An emerging face of irresponsible capitalism in
Africa, Dan Gertler took his family’s fortune in diamonds and invested it in
mining assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While in his 20s, he became
a friend of Joseph Kabila, who then ran the military and is now the DRC’s
president.
No.
25: Ana Luia de Mattos Barretto Villela
Age: 39
Net Worth: $1.15 billion
Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela belongs to one
of Brazil’s oldest and most distinguished banking families. She is one of the
largest individual shareholders of a holding company that controls Unibanco
Holding S.A., one of Brazil’s largest banks.
No.
26: Lee Seo-Hyun
Age: 39
Net Worth: $1 billion
She is the youngest daughter of Samsung Chairman Lee
Kun-Hee. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, she is vice president of
the luxury goods and fashion division of Cheil Industries (part of the Samsung Group),
as well as a vice president at Cheil Worldwide, Korea’s largest advertising
firm.
No.
27: Fang Wei
Age: 39
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Fang Wei is best known for buying turnaround
situations, especially those in the steel industry. Fangda Group now has more
than 30,000 employees across more than 10 provinces in China.
No.
28: Sergey Brin
Age: 39
Net Worth: $22.8 billion
The Google cofounder is now director of special
projects at the Mountain View, Calif. search giant, leaving his counterpart
Larry Page to handle most day-to-day operations. Brin oversees the company’s
foray into hardware and futuristic endeavors like driverless cars and augmented
reality spectacles known as Google Glass.
No.
29: Larry Page
Age: 39
Net Worth: $23 billion
Google’s cofounder and CEO since April 2011, Page
saw the company through the $50 billion revenue milestone in 2012. The stock
rose nearly 30% in the past year, adding more than $4 billion to Page’s net
worth.
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