5. Scott Duncan, 28, $3.1 bn
Son of the late Dan Duncan, Scott assumed partial control of his father’a $12.4 billion pipeline empire after his death in March 2010 at the age of 77. Houston’s richest man at the time of his death, Dan Duncan grew up poor, starting energy company Enterprise Products with two trucks in 1968. Today it owns more than 49,000 miles of pipelines.
7. Kostyantin Zhevago, 37, Finance & Credit Group, $2.4bn
Kostyantin Zhevago was born outside
Magadan Oblast in Russia. He would go onto be named as Forbes magazine’s youngest self-made multimillionaire in Europe. He started as the Finance Director of “Finances and Credit”, one of the largest Ukrainian banks at the age of 19. Today he controls successful enterprises in the mining, shipbuilding, engineering, pharmacology and food industries across Europe and Middle East.
6. Dustin Moskovitz, 26, Asana, $2.7bn
The world’s youngest billionaire, Dustin Moskovitz, was Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommate and Facebook’s third employee. Just eight days younger than his friend, Dustin can be proud of his title. The two dropped out of Harvard and moved to California to work for the social networking firm full time; he was its first chief technology officer and then vice president of engineering. He left in 2008 to start Asana, a software company that allows individuals and small companies to better collaborate.
8. Yoshikazu Tanaka, Gree, 34, $2.2bn
9. Albert von Thurn und Taxis, 27, - $2bn
Albert is a German Prince and socialite who has been listed on Forbes’ youngest billionaire since the age of 8 when his father’s death in 1990. His assets include real estate, art and a tech company, plus 30,000 hectares of woodland in Germany, one of the largest forest holdings in Europe. Despite local opposition, he is apparently going ahead with plans to build one of the world’s largest solar farms in Bavaria, in order to sell electricity.
10. Eduardo Saverin, Facebook, 29, $1.6bn
Together with former best-friend Mark Zuckerberg, he started Facebook and received a 30% stake before relationships soured when Facebook sued Saverin - Saverin countersued with both parties settling out-side of the court. The deal saw Saverin apparently receive a 5% stake. According to
Forbes.com, Saverin has been selling shares and now holds 2% and has been active in Silicon Start-Up Qwiki.
Yoshikazu started his career at Sony where he worked for fellow billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani for an online shopping site Rakuten. In 2004 he left to set up Gree, Japan’s largest social networking site. He may be facing off with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg soon; setting up shop in California. Currently on a global expansion kick, Yoshikazu has started working with Tencent, the largest Internet service portal in China.
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