Last month, money mag Forbes released their annual list of the world's richest men and women, which included familiar names such as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. The list tallied 1,826 billionaires all in all. But the overall tally was not what's amazing in this year's version. What's amazing is the fact that 46 of them were under 40 years of age—a record.
How did these young guns made so much money in such a short time? Below are their "secrets"!
1) MARK ZUCKERBERG
The Facebook Godfather rose to the 16th richest spot this year—his first time to crack the Top 20.
Age: 30
Net worth: $33.4 billion
By TechCrunch [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
2) ELIZABETH HOLMES
A Stanford University dropout who founded the blood testing company Theranos
Age: 31
Net worth: $4.5 billion
3) DREW HOUSTON
Founder of cloud-based file storage service, Dropbox
Age: 31
Net worth: $1.2 billion
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4) JACK DORSEY
The chairman of Twitter
Age: 38
Net worth: $2.7 billion
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5) NICHOLAS WOODMAN
The GoPro inventor
Age: 39
Net worth: $2.4 billion
6) MOHAMMED DEWJI
Industrial kingpin in Tanzania who launched Mo Cola in 2014 to compete with Coca Cola
Age: 39
Net worth: $1.25 billion
Image via Mohammed Dewji's Facebook page
7) JAN KOUM
The founder of the world's biggest messaging app, Whatsapp, home to over 400 million active users.
Age: 39
Net worth: $6.6 billion
8) TRAVIS KALANICK
The big boss at controversial ride-booking service, Uber
Age: 38
Net worth: $5.2 billion
By Heisenberg Media [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
9) SEAN PARKER
The tech rebel who founded Napster, and assisted in the growth of other tech giants such as Facebook and Spotify
Age: 35
Net worth: $2.5 billion
"Sean Parker 2011" by Amager at English Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
10) EVAN SPIEGEL
The youngest billionaire in this year's list, he's one of the founders of messaging app Snapchat, a service that has soared to 100 million users since its launch in 2011.
Age: 24
Net worth: $1.5 billion
By cellanr (Flickr: Evan Spiegel, founder of Snapchat) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
