5 Youngest Tech Billionaires

In this article, we talk about the 5 Youngest Tech Billionaires in the industry right now.  The world is seeing a rise of young tech billionaires worldwide, thanks to the technology revolution. To see some interesting facts about this topic, go to our detailed article titled 15 Youngest Tech Billionaires.

5) John Collision ($3.2 billion)

John Collision is an Irish billionaire and entrepreneur who co-founded Stripe with his brother Patrick Collision. Stripe lets businesses and individuals accept payments over the internet. Stripe is headquartered both in California and Dublin.

4) Daniel Ek ($5 billion)

Daniel Ek is the co-founder and CEO of Spotify (NYSE: SPOT), an online music streaming service that he founded with Martin Lorentzon in 2006. Spotify has over 140 million paid subscribers. Daniel Ek is a Swedish billionaire with a net worth of $5 billion and the total value of Spotify stands roughly at $60 billion.

3) Brian Chesky ($14.2 billion)

Who in their wildest imagination would have ever thought that renting three air mattresses to make ends meet would  result in a $100 billion idea? That is what happened with Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) and its founders. Brian Chesky is the current CEO and the co-founder of Airbnb, a peer-to-peer house renting company that operates in a manner similar to Uber (NYSE: UBER). Brian along with Joe Gebbia started Airbnb in 2007 with Nathan Blecharczyk joining in the next year. They obtained seed funding from the Y combinator and then grew all across the world. Brian Chesky is 39 years old.

2) Zhang Yiming ($22 billion)

Yiming is behind the addictive app TikTok, which has over 800 million users worldwide. Zhang Yiming has a net worth of $22.6 billion, making him the ninth richest person in China. Also the founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming became a billionaire at the age of 35 in 2018.

1) Mark Zuckerberg ($98 billion)

Topping the list of 15 youngest tech billionaires is Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook. Facebook is used by over 2.4 billion users worldwide. Mark was dethroned a year earlier in the list of billionaires by Kylie Jenner of the Kardashian family, who became a billionaire at an age of 22. Her source of income remained to be Kylie cosmetics (NYSE: COTY). Today Zuckerberg is estimated to have amassed a total net worth of $98.3 billion. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is valued at $750 billion making it one of the most influential and profitable companies in the world.

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