As of February 5th, 2013, the youngest billionaire in the world is Greek shipping heiress Athina Onassis-Roussel. Athina was born on January 29, 1985 which means she just celebrated her 28th birthday a week ago. She is the granddaughter of Aristotle Onassis, one of the Greece’s richest and most powerful shipping tycoons and the former husband of Jackie Kennedy. Aristotle died in 1975 and left his entire fortune to Athina’s mother Christina. Tragically, Christina died in 1988 from a pulmonary edema that may have been caused by diet and sleeping pills. That left the three year old Athina as the sole heir to a billion dollar shipping and real estate fortune. When Athina turned 18 in 2003, she inherited a portfolio of valuable assets that included a Greek island called “Skorpios” that is estimated to be worth between $200-300 million. The youngest male billionaire in the world made his money as a co-founder of Facebook. If you’re thinking Mark Zuckerberg, you’re wrong by just eight days. With a net worth of $2.7 billion and a birthday of May 22, 1984, the 28 year old Dustin Moskovitz is the youngest billionaire in America and the youngest male billionaire in the world. Moskovitz is just eight days younger than his Harvard roommate Mark Zuckerberg, who was born on May 14, 1984 and has a net worth of $14 billion. Keep reading for a full list of the youngest billionaires in the world… The Youngest Billionaires In the World:
Athina Onassis – $1 billion, 28 years old (Inherited) Dustin Moskovitz – $2.7 billion, 28 years old (Facebook) Mark Zuckerberg – $14 billion, 28 years old (Facebook) Albert von Thurn und Taxis – $1.5 billion, 29 years old (German prince, inherited vast real estate and investment portfolio Kim Jong-un – $1 billion, 30 years old (His father was worth an estimated $4 billion at the time of his death in 2011, it would make sense that as Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un inherited and controls assets worth at least $1 billion) Lynsi Torres – $1 billion, 30 years old (In-N-Out burger, inherited) Eduardo Saverin – $1.1 billion, 30 years old (Facebook) Scott Duncan – $4.7 billion, 30 years old (Inherited a Texas oil company) Yang Huiyan – $4.4 billion, 31 years old (Inherited a Chinese real estate fortune) Fahd Hariri – $1.3 billion, 32 years old (Inherited a construction company from his father, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon) Sean Parker – $2.1 billion, 33 years old (Facebook) Robert Pera – $1.5 billion, 34 years old (Founder of Ubiquiti Networks a wireless device manufacturer) Yvonne Bauer – $2 billion, 34 years old (Inherited German publisher Heinz Bauer) David de Rothschild, $10 billion, 34 years old (Inherited) Ayman Hariri – $1.3 billion, 35 years old (Inherited a construction company from his father, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon) Yoshikazu Tanaka – $4.3 billion, 35 years old (Founded Japanese mobile gaming company Gree) Maxim Nogotkov – $1 billion, 35 years old (Founded Russia’s second largest cell phone company Svyaznoy) Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila – $9.5 billion, 35 years old (Inherited Colombian beer conglomerate) Jack Dorsey – $1.1 billion, 36 years old (Twitter) Yusaku Maezawa – $1.1 billion, 36 years old (Founded Japanese online retailer Zozotown) Chase Coleman – $1.5 billion, 37 years old (Tiger Management hedge fund) Andrey Verevskiy – $1 billion, 37 years old (Controls diverse Ukrainian business conglomerate) John Arnold – $3 billion, 38 years old (Centaurus hedge fund) Kostyantin Zhevago – $1.8 billion, 38 years old (Controls diverse Ukrainian business conglomerate) Sergey Brin – $22.5 billion, 39 years old (Google) Larry Page – $22.7 billion, 39 years old (Google)
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title: “The Youngest Billionaires In The World” ShowToc: true date: “2025-07-03” author: “Cynthia Rubin”
As of March 2014, the youngest billionaire in the world is 24-year-old Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel. His net worth of $1.5 billion catapulted him onto this year’s list. He co-founded the temporary photo messaging company with his Stanford classmate and Kappa Sigma fraternity brother, 25-year-old Bobby Murphy. The duo developed the app that allows you to send a contact a photo with a caption that disappears in 10 seconds or less. The app took off in the fall of 2011, and is now used by nearly 200 million people–for free. Spiegel recently purchased a $3.3 million house in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles as his first bachelor pad. Previously, he had lived in his father’s Pacific Palisades home. That’s one way to do it—go big or go home. Snapchat is valued at $10 billion. In 2013, Spiegel and Murphy spurned an offer from Facebook to acquire their company for $3 billion. The youngest female billionaire is 31-year-old Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes with a net worth of $4.5 billion. Holmes dropped out of Stanford her sophomore year to found Theranos in 2003, with the money she was supposed to use to pay her college tuition. Holmes is revolutionizing the world of medical testing. Traditional blood testing is difficult, uncomfortable, and expensive for a procedure that is so commonly used. There hasn’t been any real innovation in the process since the 1960s. In both hospitals and doctors’ offices, vials of blood are drawn and then have to be sent out to be tested. This can take weeks for results to come in, and is prone to a high degree of human error. And of course, there are some people, like Holmes, who are so afraid of needles they will go to all costs to avoid having blood drawn. The implications of Holmes’ invention are simply mind-blowing. Think about it, one lone drop of blood (which is taken completely painlessly by the way), can now give you a ton of information about your health. Holmes has made it inexpensive, fast, and easy for people to have access to important information about their health. As diagnostic tests evolve, Theranos could actually allow people to head off life-altering diseases, like cancer and diabetes, before they happen. Also debuting on the list of the world’s youngest billionaires, is the trio that co-founded Airbnb. The company lists homes and apartments of private citizens for rental. Airbnb has over 800,000 listings in 33,000 cities and 192 countries. The company was founded in August 2008. The company is currently raising $1 billion in funding at a valuation of $20 billion. Nathan Blecharczyk, 31, 33-year-old Brian Chesky, and 33-year-old Joe Gebbia each have a net worth of $1.9 billion. The Youngest Billionaires In The World:
Evan Spiegel– $1.5 billion, 24, Co-Founded Snapchat Bobby Murphy– $1.5 billion, 25, Co-Founded Snapchat Julio Mario Santo Domingo III– $2.2 billion, 29, Heir to Bavaria Brewery fortune Mark Zuckerberg– $33.4 billion, 30, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz– $7.9 billion, 30, Facebook’s third employee Tom Persson– $3 billion, 30, H&M heir Anton Katherein, Jr.– $1.7 billion, 30, heir to Katherein-Werke auto antenna/mobile communications fortune Elizabeth Holmes– $4.5 billion, 31, Founder Theranos Tatiana Casiraghi– $2.2 billion, 31, heiress to Bavaria Brewery fortune Nathan Blecharczyk– $1.9 billion, 31, co-founder Airbnb Ryan Graves– $1.4 billion, 31, Uber’s first employee Drew Houston– $1.2 billion, 31, Dropbox co-founder, CEO Scott Duncan– $6.2 billion, 32, heir to Enterprise Products Partners (Texas oil pipeline) Eduardo Saverin– $4.8 billion, co-founder, Facebook Huiyan Yang– $5 billion, heiress to Chinese real estate developer fortune Brian Chesky– $1.9 billion, 33, co-founder and CEO, Airbnb Joe Gebbia– $1.9 billion, 33, co-founder AIrbnb Marie Besnier Beauvalot– $2.5 billion, 34, heiress to President Brie fortune Fahd Hariri– $1.1 billion, 34, real estate developer, son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Sean Parker– $2.5 billion, 35, Napster co-founder, founding President of Facebook Markus “Notch” Persson– $1.3 billion, 35, Minecraft creator Mike Cannon-Brookes– $1.1 billion, 35, co-founder Atlassian (software development) Scott Farquhar– $1.1 billion, 35, co-founder Atlassian Garret Camp– $5.3 billion, 36, co-founder and chairman Uber Andres Santo Domingo– $4.4 billion, 36, Heir to Bavaria Brewery fortune Robert Pera– $1.8 billion, 36, founder Ubiquiti Networks, owner NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies Julia Oetker– $1.3 billion, 36, heiress to baking powder and pudding fortune Ayman Hariri– $1.1 billion, 36, real estate developer, son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Yvonne Bauer– $2.8 billion, 37, heiress and head of Bauer Media Group Naruatsu Baba– $1.6 billion, 37, Head of Colopl, smartphone game company Travis Kalanick– $5.2 billion, 38, CEO Uber Alejando Santo Dominigo Davila– $4.4 billion, 38, Heir to Bavaria Brewery fortune Charlotte Persson Soderstrom– $3 billion, 38, H&M heiress Jack Dorsey– $2.7 billion, 38, co-founder Twitter, co-founder Square Lawrence Ho– $2 billion, 38, heir to Macau gambling industry fortune, Melco International Yoshikazu Tanaka– $1.1 billion, 38, founder and CEO of social network Gree Jan Koum– $6.6 billion, 39, co-founder WhatsApp Rahel Blocher– $3.5 billion, heir to Swiss polymer and chemical fortune Karl-Johan Persson– $3 billion, 39, CEO of H&M, heir to H&M fortune Nicholas Woodman– $2.4 billion, 39, Founder GoPro Chase Coleman– $2.1 billion, 39, Tiger Global Management hedge fund Kenji Kasahara– $1.4 billion, 39, founder of social network Mixi Yusaki Maezawa– $1.3 billion, 39, founder Japanese online fashion mall Zozotown Serra Sabanci– $1 billion, 39, board member and shareholder of Turkish conglomerate Sabanci Holding Mohammed Dewji– $1.25 billion, 39, turned trading house his father founded into industrial conglomerate MeTL Group
