There are currently 2 153 billionaires in the world.
Many of them took decades to accumulate their wealth, while others cracked it before middle-age.
Take the top 10 richest people in the world, for example. Apart from your main man Mark Zuckerberg, they’re all pretty old.
Then you get folks like Kylie Jenner, who just landed the title of youngest “self-made” billionaire ever.
She might be young and rich, but she hasn’t cracked the list of the richest Millennials in the world just yet.
From Zuckerberg to Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, here’s BusinessInsider with the top 10. You need to be born between 1981 and 1996 to qualify.
There are actually three people tied at 12th, before we get to 9th, so we will start there:
12. (TIE) Nathan Blecharczyk
Net worth: $3,7 billion
Age: 35
Country: USA
Source of wealth: Airbnb
Position: Co-founder and CSO, Airbnb
12. (TIE) Brian Chesky
Net worth: $3,7 billion
Age: 37
Country: USA
Source of wealth: Airbnb, self-made
Position: Co-founder and CEO, Airbnb
12. (TIE) Joe Gebbia
Net worth: $3,7 billion
Age: 37
Country: USA
Source of wealth: Airbnb, self-made
Position: Co-founder and CPO, Airbnb
9. Agnete Kirk Thinggaard
Net worth: $4,7 billion
Age: 35
Country: Denmark
Source of wealth: Lego
Position: Co-owner, Lego
8. (TIE) Scott Duncan
Net worth: $5,9 billion
Age: 36
Country: USA
Source of wealth: pipelines
Position: Co-owner, Enterprise Products Partners
8. (TIE) Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha
Net worth: $5,9 billion
Age: 33
Country: Thailand
Source of wealth: Duty-free
Position: CEO, King Power
6. Eduardo Saverin
Net worth: $9,7 billion
Age: 36
Country: Brazil
Source of wealth: Facebook, self-made
Position: Co-founder, Facebook; investor
5. Dustin Moskovitz
Net worth: $11,1 billion
Age: 34
Country: USA
Source of wealth: Facebook, self-made
Position: Co-founder, Facebook; Co-Founder, Asana
4. Lukas Walton
Net worth: $15,2 billion
Age: 32
Country: USA
Source of wealth: Walmart
Position: Chairman, Walton Family Foundation
3. Zhang Yiming
Net worth: $16,2 billion
Age: 35
Country: China
Source of wealth: Software, self-made
Position: Chairman, Beijing ByteDance
2. Yang Huiyan
Net worth: $22,1 billion
Age: 37
Country: China
Source of wealth: Real estate
Position: Co-owner, Country Garden Holdings
1. Mark Zuckerberg
Net worth: $62,3 billion
Age: 34
Country: USA
Source of wealth: Facebook, self-made
Position: CEO, Facebook
Congrats to these Millennials, I guess.
[source:businessinsider]
