{"id":96279,"date":"2015-08-20T12:20:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=96279"},"modified":"2015-08-20T12:20:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:20:22","slug":"worlds-richest-people-under-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/96279\/worlds-richest-people-under-35\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s richest people under 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wealth focused research group, Wealth-X has released a list of the world’s richest individuals under the age of 35.<\/p>\n

The ranking is lead by Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who is worth a staggering $41.6 billion – all self-made, according to Wealth-X.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg, at 31, is joined on the list by fellow Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, also 31 (who claimed second place on the list with an estimated net worth of US$9.3 billion) and Eduardo Saverin, 33 (who ranks fourth with an estimated net worth of US$5.3 billion).<\/p>\n

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The only person to break up the Facebook trio’s domination of the top 3 spots is China’s Huiyan Tang, whose inherited fortune of $5.9 billion puts her in third spot.<\/p>\n

Yang, 34, is vice chairman of Chinese real estate developer Country Garden Holdings, and is the richest woman on the list.<\/p>\n

The youngest individual on the list is Snapchat chief executive Evan Spiegel, who at the age of 25 has already amassed a personal fortune of US$1.9 billion.<\/p>\n

According to Wealth-X’s data, 11 of the world’s top 20 wealthiest individuals under the age of 35 are from the US, while three are from China (including Hong Kong) and another three are from Switzerland..<\/p>\n

The top 20 richest under 35s in the world<\/p>\n

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#<\/th>\nName<\/th>\nAge<\/th>\nCompany<\/th>\nNet worth (US$)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nMark Zuckerberg<\/td>\n31<\/td>\nFacebook (tech)<\/td>\n$41.6\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nDustin Moskovitz<\/td>\n31<\/td>\nAsana (mobile app)<\/td>\n$9.3\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nHuiyan Yang<\/td>\n34<\/td>\nCountry Garden Holdings (property)<\/td>\n$5.9\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nEduardo Saverin<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n99 (property tech)<\/td>\n$5.3\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nScott Duncan<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nEnterprise Products Partners (energy)<\/td>\n$5.0\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nElizabeth Holmes<\/td>\n31<\/td>\nTheranos (health tech)<\/td>\n$4.5\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nNathan Blecharczyk<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nAirBnb (tech)<\/td>\n$3.0\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nBrian Chesky<\/td>\n33<\/td>\nAirBnb<\/td>\n$3.0\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nJoe Gebbia<\/td>\n33<\/td>\nAirBnb<\/td>\n$3.0\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nThomas Persson<\/td>\n30<\/td>\nHennes & Mauritz (H&M)<\/td>\n$2.7\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nFuli Zong<\/td>\n33<\/td>\nHangzhou Wahaha Group (food and beverage)<\/td>\n$2.7\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nXiang Sun<\/td>\n33<\/td>\nSinogiant Group (steel)<\/td>\n$2.6\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nTatiana Casiraghi<\/td>\n31<\/td>\nSABMiller \/ Muzungu Sisters<\/td>\n$2.2\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nJulio Domingo<\/td>\n30<\/td>\nSABMiller \/ Sheik ‘n Beik Entertainment<\/td>\n$2.2\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nEvan Spiegel<\/td>\n25<\/td>\nSnapchat (tech)<\/td>\n$1.9\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nBobby Murphy<\/td>\n26<\/td>\nSnapchat<\/td>\n$1.9\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nCarl Hagen<\/td>\n27<\/td>\nCanica (retail)<\/td>\n$1.5\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nCaroline Kjos<\/td>\n31<\/td>\nCanica<\/td>\n$1.5\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nNina Sorli<\/td>\n34<\/td>\nCanica<\/td>\n$1.5\u00a0billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nAdrian Cheng<\/td>\n34<\/td>\nChow Tai Fook (retail)<\/td>\n$1.4 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The majority of the world’s richest people under the age of 35, are self made billionaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":68738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[4932,26,7275,7036],"class_list":["post-96279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-billionaires","tag-headline","tag-wealth","tag-wealth-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96289,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96279\/revisions\/96289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}