When you think of billionaire you usually think of old men sitting around in leather club chairs smoking cigars. With the dawning of the internet age billionaires are younger and younger, due to their internet savvy and entrepreneurial skills. Facebook, for example, turned a bunch of college students into overnight billionaires with the click of a ‘like’ button. The following billionaires struck it rich before they turned 30:
5) Eduardo Saverin
Pictured: Eduardo Saverin
Age: 30
Net Worth: $2 billion
Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian internet entrepreneur, investor, and one of the co-founders of Facebook. As of 2012, he owns less than five percent of Facebook’s shares. He has parlayed his considerable Facebook earnings into other successful ventures such as Qwiki and Jumio. In the 2010 film, The Social Network, he is played by Andrew Garfield. The film centered on the lawsuit filed on Saverin by Facebook and countersuit filed by Saverin against Facebook. The case was settled out of court and while the terms were not disclosed Saverin kept his title as co-founder of Facebook.
4) Scott Duncan
Unfortunately, there is no image available for this young billionaire
Age: 29
Net Worth: $4.1 billion
Scott Duncan is one of four children of the late entrepreneur Dan Duncan, former richest man in Houston who died in 2010. After Scott inherited his father’s energy pipeline business, he added another $1 billion to his fortune after the company’s share price climbed by our-fourth in 2012. He was born in 1983.
3) Albert Von Thurn und Taxis
Pictured: Albert von Thurn und Taxis
Age: 28
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Albert II Maria Lamoral Miguel Johannes Gabriel, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis is a German aristocrat and has been listed as the world’s youngest aristocrat multiple times since his father’s passing in 1990. The Prince was born June 24, 1983 and currently lives in his family’s castle and races cars in a German auto-racing league.
2) Mark Zuckerberg
Pictured: Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 27
Net Worth: $17.5 billion
Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and founder of the social networking site Facebook. Regardless of his personal fortune he values modesty and frivolity, preferring to spend his money on philanthropic pursuits while wearing his customary hooded sweatshirt and flip flop sandals.
1) Dustin Moskovitz
Pictured: Dustin Moskovitz
Age: 27
Net Worth: $3.5 billion
Dustin Moskovitz is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking site with Harvard roommate Mark Zuckerberg. Despite his success and billions of dollars he still rides his bike to work and always flies commercial. Moskovitz was born May 22, 1984.
