{"id":32786,"date":"2013-03-04T15:57:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=32786"},"modified":"2015-05-05T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:13:54","slug":"techs-youngest-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/32786\/techs-youngest-billionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech&#8217;s youngest billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has listed the youngest billionaires in the world, and of the listed wunderkinds\u00a0under the age of 40, eight play in the tech arena.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes says that there are currently 1,426 billionaires in the world, but only 23 are under 40 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s a showing by young billionaires in the mining sector, dairy, steel industry and even a producer of sunflower oil, eight of these fresh faces play in the field of technology &#8211; with four from social network giant, Facebook, alone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5309\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5309\" title=\"Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Facebook-founder-Mark-Zuckerberg.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Facebook-founder-Mark-Zuckerberg.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Facebook-founder-Mark-Zuckerberg-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Mark Zuckerberg, top the list as the youngest billionairs at the age of 28 &#8211; though Moskovitz is worth close to $10 billion less than Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>Another Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, pegs a bit further down at the age of 30.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Parker, the\u00a033 year-old Napster founder, who is currently working on video chat site, Airtime, also served as Facebook&#8217;s first president when he was 24.<\/p>\n<p>Other listed players in the tech space are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>36 year-old founder and CEO of social-network game site operator Gree, Yoshikazu Tanaka;<\/li>\n<li>36 year-old co-founder and leader of 160-character microblogging social network, Twitter;<\/li>\n<li>36 year-old founder of cell phone retailer Svyaznoy, Maxim Nogotkov;<\/li>\n<li>37 year-old CEO of the GoPro camera company, Nicholas Woodman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 37, Chase Coleman is also listed on the under 40s billionaire list, with a net worth of $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman heads up the Tiger Global Management investment firm, which is a large player in the South African e-commerce space.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25801\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25801\" title=\"Chase-Coleman\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Chase-Coleman.jpg\" alt=\"Chase-Coleman\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Chase-Coleman.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Chase-Coleman-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chase Coleman caricature<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Through Tiger Global Management\u2019s venture capital fund, the firm owns shares in South Africa\u2019s largest online auction website, BidorBuy, which in-turn owns 100% of Ubuntu Deal and has a minority stake in PayFast.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Global further owns a majority shareholding in Private Property, which in-turn has minority stakes in Safari Now and a number of motoring, property and employment businesses in East and West Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The youngest billionaires<\/h3>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>#<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Net worth<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Age<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Dustin Moskovitz<\/td>\n<td>$3.8 billion<\/td>\n<td>28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Mark Zuckerberg<\/td>\n<td>$13.3 billion<\/td>\n<td>28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Albert von Thurn und Taxis<\/td>\n<td>$1.5 billion<\/td>\n<td>29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Scott Duncan<\/td>\n<td>$5.1 billion<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Eduardo Saverin<\/td>\n<td>$2.2 billion<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Huiyan Yang<\/td>\n<td>$5.7 billion<\/td>\n<td>31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Fahd Hariri<\/td>\n<td>$1.35 billion<\/td>\n<td>32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Marie Besnier Beauvalot<\/td>\n<td>$1.5 billion<\/td>\n<td>32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Sean Parker<\/td>\n<td>$2 billion<\/td>\n<td>33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Ayman Hariri<\/td>\n<td>$1.35 billion<\/td>\n<td>34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>Yvonne Bauer<\/td>\n<td>$2.4 billion<\/td>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>Yoshikazu Tanaka<\/td>\n<td>$1.8 billion<\/td>\n<td>36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>Maxim Nogotkov<\/td>\n<td>$1.3 billion<\/td>\n<td>36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila<\/td>\n<td>$11.7 billion<\/td>\n<td>36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>Jack Dorsey<\/td>\n<td>$1.1 billion<\/td>\n<td>36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>Serra Sabanci<\/td>\n<td>$1.3 billion<\/td>\n<td>37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>Nicholas Woodman<\/td>\n<td>$1.3 billion<\/td>\n<td>37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td>Chase Coleman<\/td>\n<td>$1.4 billion<\/td>\n<td>37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td>Ryan Kavanaugh<\/td>\n<td>$1 billion<\/td>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>Andrey Verevskiy<\/td>\n<td>$1 billion<\/td>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<td>John Arnold<\/td>\n<td>$2.8 billion<\/td>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>Kostyantin Zhevago<\/td>\n<td>$1.5 billion<\/td>\n<td>39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>23<\/td>\n<td>Fang Wei<\/td>\n<td>$1.5 billion<\/td>\n<td>39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More stories on the world\u2019s richest people<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Forbes lists Africa\u2019s power players\" 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