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Young Rich List – 30 Under 30 Internet Millionaires
#1 Mark Zuckerberg Aged 26yrs
Worth an estimated $6.9 billion
If
you don’t know who Mark Zuckerberg is already, you really must have
been living under a rock. Mark is an American entrepreneur who
co-founded and is currently the CEO of the social networking behemoth we
know as Facebook. Hailing from White Plains, New York, Mark started his
programming at a very early age back in “Middle School” and it looks
like that really paid off. Currently owning approximately 24% of
Facebook, Mark is now a Multi-Billionaire, with a fortune of roughly
$6.9bn and growing. So why is he top of the list? Well, I can think of a
few reasons, 6.9 billion reasons in fact!
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#2 Dustin Moskovitz Aged 26yrs
Worth an estimated $1.4 billion
Now
Dustin may be a little less familiar to you than Mark (above) but he’s
definitely someone who has struck lucky. In fact Dustin was one of the
co-founders of Facebook along with Mark. Dustin has since left Facebook
(back in 2008) and has now set up his own business, Asana a company that
apparently tackles the problems of workplace collaborations. Still in
it’s early development stages, Asana is currently in Beta mode if you
are interested? So how much did he make? A little over $1.4bn.
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#3 Andrew Mason – Aged 29yrs
Worth an estimated $600 million
Andrew
Mason is the founder and CEO of the online business Groupon. A site you
have all more than likely heard about or used before. Andrew Now just
29 years old is worth an estimated $600 million due to the sites huge
success. Founded in 2008 Groupon has been steadily increasing it’s
traffic and it’s income for the grateful founder. The aim of the website
is to offer out daily deals to people all over the world via an online
coupon service. Each and everyday Groupon releases new “Groupons” to its
customers allowing them to receive discounts on anything from subway
meals to laptops and much more. Andrew was given $1 million dollars by
his previous employer in order to start this venture which has now made
them both a lot of money in the 2 short years it has been up and
running. I’m sure we can expect more from them in the near future.
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#4 Matthew Mullenweg – Aged 26yrs
*Worth an estimated $250 million
Its
nice to have one of our own on the list, and I’m pretty sure we all
know who this young chap is. Matthew Mullenweg is the founding developer
of WordPress, a resource a lot of us use on a daily basis. Funnily
enough his background is anything but technical, he went to a performing
arts school, learned to play the Jazz Saxophone, and then he went on to
created one of the best website and blog programs in the world. In 2005
he started the company Automatic, which became the backing force behind
WordPress and Akismet. Well done Ma.tt – You see what I did there?
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#5 Blake Ross – Aged 25yrs
Worth an estimated $150 million
Blake
Ross is an American software developer, known best for his work with
Mozilla Firefox. That’s right at the age of 25yrs he has been able to
accumulate a total fortune worth $150 million. In 2005 he was nominated
for the Wired Magazines top “Rave Award” opposite some very popular
names including Larry Page and Jon Stewart. Blake also co-founded the
company Parakey which was eventually bought out by, yes you’ve guessed
it, Facebook.*
#6 Gurbaksh Chahal – Aged 28yrs
Worth an estimated $100+ million
Gurbaksh
Chahalis an American author and entrepreneur that has managed to
create, build and grow two businesses into a massive empire worth $340
million, and all that before he is even 30yrs! Born in India, his family
finally settled in California, by the time he was 16yrs old he had
dropped out of school and decided to embark on a career in business.
Gurbaksh is now the CEO and founder of gWallet.Inc. What an
awe-inspiring story.*
Worth an estimated $80 million
You
may not have heard about Naveen but rest assured he is definitely a big
hitter. He made most of his money through a joint venture that you may
have heard of, Foursquare anyone? However before co-founding Foursquare
he had worked extensively with some very well known brands, Nokia, Sun
Microsystems and Sony to name a few. $80 million, yes please!
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#8 Angelo Sotira – Aged 29yrs
Worth an estimated $75 million
Angelo,
is someone a lot of you graphic designers, photographers, and web
developers may know very well. He is the pioneering brain behind
DeviantArt, The website was co-founded back in 2000 with Scott Jarkoff
and Matt Stephens and is bigger than ever today. It really is the
Facebook of the art/digital art world. The community is very strong and
it’s a really intriguing and inspirational website. Still $75 million
for creating a website back in 2000, I think I could wait 10 years for
$75mil, how about you?
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#9 Nat Turner – Aged 26yrs
Worth an estimated $70 million
Nat
Turner is one lucky entrepreneur, but lets not be harsh on him, he
worked extremely hard in order to get lucky. What I mean is that he was
lucky enough to build a brilliant company, Invitemedia, which is a
“universal buying platform” for display media according to their
website. Where he got “lucky” is when the global giant that is Google,
decided to buy him and his co-founders (Zach Weinberg and Scott Becker –
both aged 23yrs) out for a nice round figure of $70 million. Good job
Nat.*
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#10 Peter Cashmore – Aged 24yrs
Worth an estimated $70 million
Peter
Cashmore is is the CEO and founder of the unique media website
Mashable.com which he started back in 2005. Pete has been lucky enough
to appear in the Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30 as well as getting a
mention in the top 25 web-celebrities. There have been so many great
reviews by so many large publishing brands and the brand itself seems to
just getter better with time. The site now has over 10 million readers
monthly, and is set to have even more by the end of the year.
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