Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

In March, the American magazine Forbes published a list traditionally the richest people in the world, 66 of them were younger than 40 years. Only five of the top 15 richest young created their own state. The remaining part of the family owned business. Some of them, such as Anton Katreyn from Germany, works in his father's company. And Julio Mario Santo Domingo III, which owns shares of SABMiller in, and Tom Persson of the owners of family H & M, prefer to make things more interesting: Domingo III works as a DJ, and Persson - in the film industry.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

1. Alexander Andersen

Age: 19 years

Net Worth: $ 1, 2 billion

status Source: investment

Position in rating: 1476

Young possessor billion only 19 years old. In the list of the richest Alexander carried away by horse-riding, and her sister twenty hit by his father Johan Andersen: sisters received 42% of the family investment company Ferd. In Norway, the family is known for more than 100 years, primarily as a tobacco brand owners Tiedemanns. In 2005, Andersen sold its stake in the tobacco business for $ 480 million. Now Ferd only investment company, which still manages Johan Andersen.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

2. Katherine Andersen

Age: 20 years

Net Worth: $ 1, 2 billion

status Source: investment

Position in rating: 1476

Katerina freshman at Amsterdam University College. Katerina and her 19-year-old sister of Alexander - the successor to the well-known Norwegian company Ferd, which until 2005 produced a popular brand Tiedemanns tobacco. From his father Johan Andersen Katherine and Alexander received 42% of the company that made them to lady billion.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

3. Gustav Magnar Vitzo

Age: 22 year

Net Worth: $ 1, 1 billion

state source: fishing industry

Position in rating: 1577

Gustav Magnar won 47% of the company Salmar ASA after his father gave him all their shares class "B" in 2013. Salmar - Norway's largest company for the production of salmon, which in 1991 founded the father of a young billionaire - Gustav Witz. Junior Witz only owns shares, the Management Company is still his father.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

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4. Evan Spiegel

Age: 25 years

Net Worth: $ 2, 1 billion

status Source: Snapchat

Rank: # 854

Rich Evan Spiegel did Snapchat - mobile service for self-destructing messaging, launched in 2011. According to Forbes, the application used daily by some 100 million people. Spiegel, who runs the company, grew up in a family of wealthy lawyers in Malibu. He studied design at Stanford where he met future partners - Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown. Together they came up with Snapchat predecessor - Picaboo application. The project failed, after which there was a quarrel with Brown and rebranding Picaboo.

In its new version of the application had to taste to students across America, and then worldwide. In 2013, Spiegel rejected the offer Facebook: Zuckerberg was ready to buy Snapchat for $ 3 billion In 2015, Snapchat has attracted funding of $ 538 million According to Forbes, Spiegel and Murphy owned 13% and 11% respectively of the company...

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

5. Ludwig Theodor Brown

Age: 26 years

Net Worth: $ 1, 2 billion

state source: medical technology

Position in rating: 1476

Ludwig Theodor Braun - younger son Ludwig Georg Braun, who in 1977 took over the helm of the German company B. Braun Melsungen AG and made it the largest producer of medical devices. Now, the company employs 54,000 people and revenue for 2014 amounted to $ 5, 4 billion. Theodore Brown owns 9, 69% of the family company.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

6. Bobby Murphy

Age: 27 years

Net Worth: $ 1, 8 billion

status Source: Snapchat

Position in rating: №1011

Bobby Murphy and his friend Evan Spiegel Stanford have created an application for the exchange of self-destructing messages - Snapchat. The application continues to gain popularity and boasts a hundred-million daily audience that undoubtedly attracts investors. According to Forbes, Murphy has a share of not less than 11%.

In 2011, Murphy, Spiegel and Reggie Brown launched a failed Picaboo application. Finalized its product and quarreled with Brown, Murphy and Spiegel released on Snapchat market. It allows you to send to your friends pictures or videos with subtitles and graphics, which disappear within 10 seconds. Product shot, enriching its creators.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

7. Wang Han

Age: 28 years

Net Worth: $ 1, 3 billion

status Source: airline

Rank: No. 1367

Airlines Juneyao Air went to the Shanghai billionaire from his father, who died in 2004. Wang Han owns 27% of the airline, whose shares rose after a successful exit at the IPO, and 14% of the chain of department stores belonging to the holding company created by his father.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

8. Lukas Walton

Age: 29 years

Net Worth: $ 10, 4 billion

status Source: Wal-Mart

Rank: №99Cvoe state Lukas Walton received from his father - the heir to Wal-Mart, who died in a plane crash in 2005. Lucas went to one third of his father's property, which includes stakes in retailer Wal-Mart and the company First Solar, which manufactures solar panels. Mother Christy Walton got one-sixth of the inheritance. The rest was given to charities. American Forbes previously mentioned Walton Lucas, but included a part in his mother's condition. New data obtained from private sources, possible to determine the exact number of his wealth. However, about a young billionaire who is not involved in the business, still little is known. He graduated from Colorado College, where he studied environmental science and economics. They say he is an investor and philanthropist, investing in environmental innovation.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

9. Eva Maria Brown Luedicke

Age: 29Costoyanie: $ 1, 4 billion

state source: medical technology

Position in rating: №1275

Eva Maria Brown Luedicke - daughter Barbara Brown Luedicke, a member of the supervisory board of a medical company B. Braun Melsungen AG. Cousin Barbara - Ludwig Georg Braun - bought the company in 1977 and made a small company the largest manufacturer of medical devices in the world. Son of Ludwig Braun - Theodore - also got a rating of: the list of young billionaires, with a share of 9, 69% in the family business, he in fifth place. Eva Maria - 11% of the company.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

10. Julio Mario Santo Domingo III of

Age: 30 years

Net Worth: $ 2, 4 billion

status Source: SABMiller

Rank: 722

New York DJ inherited his fortune from his grandfather and namesake of the late Julio Mario Santo Domingo, who died in 2011. Grandfather Domingo III exchanged his Colombian brewery for 15% stake in SABMiller in 2005. Beer magnate divided the inheritance between his two sons, who are included in the rating of the richest people in America, and grandchildren went to one sixth. Father Domingo III died in 2009, leaving behind a 50 000 books about how psychiatric drugs affect the individual and society, as well as the world's largest collection of pipes for smoking opium.

But Domingo III in 2015 has become a little richer: the share price of his company jumped on the news that the giant competitor - brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev - wants to buy SABMiller.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

11. Mark Zuckerberg

Age: 31 year

Net Worth: $ 44, 6 billion

state Source: Facebook

Rank: 6

It's the last year was not so successful for Mark Zuckerberg. In 2015, the shares of the social network Facebook have grown so much that added to the wealth of its founder $ 11, 2 billion. In addition, Zuckerberg became a father, and in the wake of happiness announced plans for a life to give 99% of its shares to charity. The growth of mobile advertising on the social network Facebook raised revenues, the number of users purchased Zuckerberg in 2014 WhatsApp messenger to break the mark of 1 billion, and in 2016 will begin to Facebook with your headset from the manufacturer of virtual reality helmets Oculus, which was bought 2 years ago. In February 2016, however, Zuckerberg waiting for a failure: his plan to provide free internet in India was stopped telecommunications regulator country. According to authorities, the program offers free access to a limited set of Internet resources, violate the principle of net neutrality.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

12. Dustin Moskovitz

Age: 31 year

Net Worth: $ 8, 9 billion

state Source: Facebook

Rank: 124

It Dustin Moskovitz helped his roommate (Mark Zuckerberg) at Harvard University to launch the social networking site Facebook. Two years later, he left the University and joined the Facebook team. In 2008 he left the company, leaving a 5% social network, making it one of the richest people in the world. At the same time he created his Asana, the software project.

Together with his wife Moskowitz founded Good Ventures Charitable Foundation, which donates millions of dollars.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

13. Tom Persson

Age: 31 year

Net Worth: $ 2, 4 billion

Source condition: H & M

Rank: 722

Tom Persson - the third generation of a family that made its fortune in the "cheap chic" - H & M stores. His grandfather Erling Persson founded the network in 1947. Brother Tom Pearson, Karl Johan, CEO of, and his father, Stefan Persson, Chairman of the Board of Directors and the richest man in Sweden. Sister, brother, aunt and father Tom - billionaires. The very rich young lives in Stockholm and works in the film industry.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

14. Anton Katreyn

Age: 31 year

Net Worth: $ 1, 4 billion

status Source: antenna production

Position in rating: 1275

The ancestor of the family wealth Katreynov grandfather was Anton - immediately after the First World War, he established the company Kathrein-Werke AG in the German town of Rosenheim, the first office was in a basement. Anton's father stood since 1972 at the helm of the company. In 2012, he died suddenly, and the 28-year-old billionaire had to lead the company. The company Kathrein-Werke AG., As stated on its website, is the largest manufacturer of antennas in the world. it now produces radio and television antennas, satellite and terrestrial communications systems and equipment for high-speed data transmission for cable operators, antenna systems and electronic components for cellular communications. The company employs 9,000 people.

Age is not an obstacle: the youngest billionaires Forbes ranking

15. Elizabeth Holmes

Age: 32 year

Net Worth: $ 3, 6 billion

status Source: Theranos

Rank: # 435

One of the youngest female billionaires, made his fortune, called "Jobs in a skirt." She, like the Apple founder, left the prestigious university to found his own company Theranos. Holmes developed a method to quickly, cheaper and painless sampling microscopic blood volume for rapid analysis. Investors in 2014 estimated the startup at $ 9 billion.

In the fall of 2015 Theranos accused of providing incomplete or incorrect information about their work to investors and customers. The investigation of the newspaper The Wall Street Journal revealed that the majority of blood tests Theranos does not on the innovative devices of its own design, and standard equipment of other manufacturers. In 2016 it became clear that some of the laboratory were dangerous for patients. As a result, about 40 centers were closed, and the Forbes US, reduced the valuation of assets Theranos.