No. 1:
Perenna Kei & family
Age: 24
Net Worth: $1.3 billion
The world's youngest billionaire title goes to Perenna Kei, who owns
an 85% stake in Logan Property Holdings through different companies and a
family trust. Logan’s chairman and CEO, Ji Haipeng, is her father.
Previously known by the name “Ji Peili," Kei is a non-executive
director at the company, and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance
from the University of London.
No. 2: Dustin
Moskovitz
Age: 29
Net Worth: $6.8 billion
No longer the world's youngest billionaire, Dustin Moskovitz will turn 30 this
year. Mark Zuckerberg's former roommate, Moskovitz helped kick start the social
network from a Harvard dorm, dropping out of school after two years to work on
the venture full-time as Facebook's third employee. He left Facebook in 2008 to
start Asana, a software company that aims to improve how people work with
project collaboration tools. He got married in the past year to longtime
girlfriend Cari Tuna.
No. 3: Mark
Zuckerberg
Age: 29
Net Worth: $28.5 billion
Facebook turned 10 this year and no one was celebrating harder than CEO Mark
Zuckerberg. After seeing his company past the growing pains of a disappointing
May 2012 IPO, Zuckerberg has the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company flying high.
Facebook's shares are up more than 130% over the past year as of mid-February.
That's caused Zuck's net worth to more than double over the same period, even
after he gave away 18 million shares in late December. He sold more than 41
million shares and exercised 60 million options around that time as well.
No. 4: Anton
Kathrein, Jr
Age: 29
Net Worth: $1.35 billion
Anton Kathrein, Jr. is the third generation to lead his family's Kathrein-Werke
AG--"the oldest and largest antenna manufacturer in the world,"
according to the company's website. A pioneer in automotive antennas, it also
makes radio and TV broadcast antennas, satellite and terrestrial reception
systems, equipment for high-speed multimedia transmission by cable TV operators
and antenna systems and electronic components that allow cell phone signals to
bounce across the world. The company--with 18 production sites worldwide,
over 6,800 employees and $1.8 billion in revenue in 2012--was founded by
Kathrein's grandfather in 1919. Anton Sr. ran the company from 1972 until his
unexpected death in 2012.
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No. 5: Drew
Houston
Age: 30
Net Worth: $1.2 billion
Dropbox cofounder and CEO Drew Houston is Silicon Valley's newest boy-wonder
billionaire. Barely out of his 20s, he joins the 10-figure fortune club this
year after his San Francisco-based tech company raised a new round of funding
in January at a valuation just under $10 billion. Houston
(pronounced like the New York City street, not the Texas city) cofounded
Dropbox, a cloud-based file-sharing service, with Arash Ferdowsi in 2007.
Houston started tinkering with computers at age 5 and has been involved in
startups since high school.
No. 6: Albert
von Thurn und Taxis
Age: 30
Net Worth: $3.8 billion
Although he first appeared on Forbes' billionaire list as an 8-year-old, Albert
von Thurn und Taxis, the 12th prince in his family line, officially inherited
his fortune in 2001, on his 18th birthday. His assets include real estate, art
and 36,000 hectares of woodland in Germany, one of the largest forest holdings
in Europe. An eligible bachelor, he lives in the family castle in Bavaria,
Schloss Emmeram, and drives race cars.
No. 7: Scott
Duncan
Age: 31
Net Worth: $6.3 billion
Scott Duncan is one of Texas' most eligible bachelors and one of four heirs to
a massive energy-pipeline fortune built by their late father, Dan Duncan. He is
$1.2 billion richer than a year ago thanks to a rise in the stock price of
Enterprise Products Partners and a generous dividend plan. His father, formerly
the richest man in Houston, died in 2010 at age 77. At the time of his death,
there was a one-year lapse on estate taxes, allowing the siblings to inherite
the fortune tax-free. Had Duncan died at another time, their fortune would have
been subject to a federal tax of at least 45%.
No. 8:
Eduardo Saverin
Age: 31
Net Worth: $4.1 billion
Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin, who was born in Brazil, has been living in
Singapore since renouncing his United States citizenship in 2012. He rarely
makes media appearances and now spends his time as an angel investor. "My
life is not about creating another Facebook," he said at a Wall Street Journal conference
in Singapore last year.
No. 9: Yang
Huiyan
Age: 32
Net Worth: $6.9 billion
China's richest woman Yang Huiyan is vice chairman of real estate
developer Country Garden. She was given her father's stake in Country
Garden before the company's initial public offering in 2007, the same year
that she topped Forbes' list of China's richest with a net worth of $16
billion.
No. 10: Fahd
Hariri
Age: 33
Net Worth: $1.2 billion
Fahd 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 he
reportedly hasn't set foot in Beirut since his father's assassination in 2005,
he develops residential buildings there and credits his father for his
love of real estate development.
No. 11: Marie
Besnier Beauvalot
Age: 33
Net Worth: $2.7 billion
Marie, 33, along with siblings Emmanuel, 43, and Jean-Michel, 46, inherited
French dairy giant Lactalis, producers of popular Président brie among hundreds
of other cheese, milk and yogurt brands. Between them, they own 100% of the
company their grandfather founded in the 1930s.
No. 12: Sean
Parker
Age: 34
Net Worth: $2.4 billion
In June, Napster founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker wed singer
Alexandra Lenas in a lavish ceremony in the forest in Big Sur, California with
guests wearing outfits created by Hollywood costume designer Ngila Dickson. The
$4.5 million wedding generated headlines for its Lord of the Rings-inspired
outfits and Parker's settlement with the California Coastal Commission for
alleged environmental damage--Parker paid a $1 million fee on behalf of the
Ventana Inn (owner of the venue) for lacking proper permits, and threw in an
additional $1.5 million donation to the Coastal Commission. Parker insists not
a single tree was harmed.
No. 13:
Julia Oetker
Age: 35
Net Worth: $1.65 billion
The Oetker fortune--of which Julia Oetker is the youngest of eight billionaire
beneficiaries--was built on baking and pudding powder. Now broadly diversified,
Dr August Oetker KG--a holding company whose subsidiaries employ some 26,000
people and generate around $15 billion in annual revenue--traces its roots
1891, when August Oetker, a pharmacist, started selling non-perishable baking
powder. Today, each of his heirs and their families own 12.5% percent of
Bielefeld-based Dr. August Oetker KG.
No. 14:
Robert Pera
Age: 35
Net Worth: $2.7 billion
Robert Pera returns to the list after a one-year hiatus thanks to stellar
performance from his Ubiquiti Networks. He started out as a hardware
engineer with Apple in 2003, but after just two years he left the company to
start his own, later saying, "Apple is a great company, but I realized I
wanted to have more success faster."
No. 15:
Ayman Hariri
Age: 35
Net Worth: $1.2 billion
Ayman 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. Oger was part of a
venture that won a $653 million contract in January 2013 to build a local
branch of the Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi.
No. 16:
Naruatsu Baba
Age: 36
Net Worth: $2.2 billion
Naruatsu Baba joins the ranks of Forbes billionaires as his smartphone game
maker Colopl storms the market. Baba, founded the company in
2008 as a developer; today he owns 59% of the growing company after selling of
a 10% stake last summer.
No. 17:
Yvonne Bauer & family
Age: 36
Net Worth: $3.5 billion
Yvonne Bauer is the fifth generation of her family to run Bauer Media Group,
which publishes some 600 magazines in 37 countries worldwide (U.S. titles
include First for Women, Woman's World and In Touch). The group
continues to expand through acquisitions and product launches focused on radio
and print.
No. 18:
Lawrence Ho
Age: 37
Net Worth: $3 billion
Lawrence Ho is son of Macau gambling-industry legend Stanley Ho.
Their Melco Crown Entertainment, a venture with Australian James Packer,
boasts casino projects in Macau and Manila.
No. 19:
Yoshikazu Tanaka
Age: 37
Net Worth: $1.6 billion
Yoshikazu Tanaka, founder and CEO of social networking gaming company,
Gree, is trying to get the firm back on track after declining sales for
conventional mobile phones and stiff competition--he is up against Apple's App
Store and Google Play. The company's share price has slumped 22% over the past
year.
No.
20: Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila & family
Age: 37
Net Worth: $11.1 billion
Colombian beer king Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo died in October 2011,
leaving his inheritance spread among Colombia's richest family. Julio Mario had
owned Bavaria brewery but traded it in 2005 for 15% of SABMiller, the
second-largest brewer on the planet. Julio Mario had three sons, including
Alejandro, the new face of the family and a managing director at New York
investment firm Quadrant Capital Advisors.
No. 21: Jack
Dorsey
Age: 37
Net Worth: $2.2 billion
Jack Dorsey has founded two billion-dollar Silicon Valley companies and shows
no signs of slowing. His first, Twitter, went public in Nov. 2013. Dorsey,
who owns nearly 5% of the company's outstanding shares, serves as chairman of
the San Francisco-based microblogging service. He owns an even larger
stake--nearly 29%--in payments company Square, which had estimated revenues of
$220 million in 2012 and is valued at about $3.25 billion as of a funding round
announced in Sept. 2012.
No. 22: Jan
Koum
Age: 38
Net Worth: $6.8 billion
Jan Koum caused quite the stir when Facebook announced that it was buying his
mobile messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in February.Koum created
WhatsApp in 2009 as the first smartphone application to let people send text
messages between different phones and countries for free, using only their cell
phone numbers. It is now the biggest mobile messaging service in the world with
430 million active users, bigger than Skype and Snapchat combined. Born and
raised in a village on the outskirts of Kiev, Koum immigrated to Mountain View,
Calif. when he was 16 and soon discovered a passion for computer hacking and
networking.
No. 23:
Nicholas Woodman
Age: 38
Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Another year, another milestone for GoPro creator and CEO Nicholas Woodman.
After debuting on the billionaires list last year, he plans to take his company
public this year after filing IPO papers with the Securities and Exchange
Commission in February. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company is keeping it under
wraps, however, after filing their documents confidentially--an exception for companies
with less than $1 billion in revenue under the JOBS act.
No. 24:
Chase Coleman, III
Age: 38
Net Worth: $1.6 billion
Coleman is running one of the most dynamic new alternative money management
businesses, Tiger Global Management, which oversees some $13 billion. His $6.3
billion Tiger Global hedge fund has cooled off a bit after trouncing the U.S.
stock market in 2011 and 2012. But Tiger Global still returned some 14% net of
fees in 2013.
No.
25: Yusaku Maezawa
Age: 38
Net Worth: $1.25 billion
Yusaku Maezawa founded online fashion mall Zozotown, a wildly popular website
with some 1,600 brands, which are mostly Japanese, and 4 million members. The
website is structured like actual mall where stores are set up; sells on
consignment.
No. 26:
Rahel Blocher
Age: 38
Net Worth: $2.9 billion
Rahel Blocher, along with sister Magdalena, is the largest shareholder of
Ems-Chemie, the gigantic Swiss polymer and chemical manufacturer that her
family has run for decades. When father Christoph Blocher departed the company
in 2004 after 35 years to serve in the Swiss government, he sold his stock
evenly to his four children. Rahel, the youngest sibling, isn't actively
involved in company operations, unlike Magdalena, who is CEO.
No. 27: John
Arnold
Age: 39
Net Worth: $2.9 billion
John Arnold shocked the hedge fund world in May 2012 when he announced that he
was calling it quits at age 38. He got his start at Enron in 1995 and is said
to have made $750 million for the company in 2001 alone, the year that the
company collapsed. After Enron he started his own fund, Centaurus Advisors, and
became a billionaire posting triple-digit returns several years.
No. 28: Jon
Oringer
Age: 39
Net Worth: $1.35 billion
Jon Oringer became New York's first tech billionaire in 2013 thanks to the
soaring value of Shutterstock, the stock photo service he founded 10 years
earlier and took public in 2012. A serial entrepreneur, Oringer had
come up with one of the world's first pop-up blockers as a computer science
graduate student at Columbia. The site now has over 30 million photos, 40,000
contributors and 2012 revenues of $170 million.
No.
29: Liu Qiangdong
Age: 39
Net Worth: $2.7 billion
Liu Qiangdong is founder and CEO of JD.com of Beijing, formerly called
360Jindong. The company boasts about 500,000 orders a day.
No. 30: Ryan
Kavanaugh
Age: 39
Net Worth: $1 billion
Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is backed by fellow billionaire Ron Burkle.
Relativity now also has a TV division, sports management and a music
department.
No.
31: Miriam Blocher
Age: 39
Net Worth: $1.1 billion
Miriam Blocher is a major shareholder of Ems-Chemie, the gigantic Swiss polymer
and chemical manufacturer that her family has run for decades. When father
Christoph Blocher departed the company in 2004 after 35 years to serve in the
Swiss government, he sold his stock evenly to his four children. Miriam and
brother Markus have sold shares to sisters Magdalena and Rahel over the years
to run their own companies. Miriam purchased Läckerli-Huus, a Swiss
confectionary and baked goods company, in 2007 and still manages the company.
