Who does not want the big break? Who does not want to make real money? Who does not plan for their luxurious lifestyle? But it gets all the more better when one grabs all these opportunities in the earlier phases of lives while the rest spend lifetimes building up their careers and homes. We discussed about richest people, richest countries, richest rappers,richest players and lot more by now and due to the interest that the readers showed in the top 10 series, we are now ranking among the top ten youngest billionaires of the world presenting you a collection of a bunch of the youth of this era who have done it big and made it better than all.10. Ayman Hariri
Country: Lebanon
Age: 32
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Among the five children of Rafik Hariri who was the Prime Minister of Lebanon, Ayman Hariri stands as the 10th richest youngster of the world. Saudi Oger, a real estate, construction and telecom multinational firm is headed by Ayman Hairiri. He is the board member of a South African mobile operator- 3C Telecommunications, having major shares owned by Saudi Oger. Young Hariri looks after Saudi Oger’s construction department which supports huge projects like that of Princess Naura Bint Abdulrahman University for Women and King Abdullah Financial District.
9. Fahd Hariri
Country: Lebanon
Age: 30
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
The late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, died in 2005, left a large division of his wealth to his youngest son, Fahd Hariri. Fahd holds major shares of Saudi Oger, the amalgamated firm of real estate, construction and telecom. Active board member of the family’s Future TV, a global television grid taking the entire Middle East under its umbrella. At present young Hariri has a net worth of $1.5 billion and is reported to be accommodated in Paris.
8. Eduardo Saverin
Country: United States
Age: 29
Net Worth: $2 billion
The most successful and famous venture ever put up by two Harvard friends, Facebook, was founded by Saverin and Zuckerberg. Saverin had 30% shares in the company earlier which he lost after rigorous charges by Zuckerberg for forcibly interfering in the business dealings and asserting to keep 30% stock. After the defrayal Saverin was compensated with a bio data page on Facebook as a co-founder and given 5% shares. The shares are rumored to be sold and now he is left with 2% of them. Sponsored $8 million on Qwiki, a Silicon Valley infant setup and made a shocking coverage in the news.
7. Albert von Thurn und Taxis
Country: Germany
Age: 27
Net Worth: $2 billion
On his 18th birthday, Taxis inherited the fortune officially in June 2001 after his first appearance at the age of eight in Forbes’ ranks. Had studied in Rome for high school and has done M.A. in Economics and Theology from University of Edinburgh in Scotland in June 2008. He currently owns an art, tech and real estate firm including 30,000 hectares of copse in Germany which is the largest forest host in the entire Europe. He aims to sell electricity through developing the largest solar farm in Bavaria, located in southern Germany. His plans are receiving strong negative support but he stands adamant. Taxis lives in Schloss Emmeram in family castle.
6. Sean Parker
Country: United States
Age: 30
Net Worth: $2.1 billion
At the age of 19, Parker created a music sharing facility that imparted free music to the public and became a catalyst to the already accelerated downfall of the recording industry. Sean Parker is the ex-President of Facebook and the strategic planner of Silicon Valley, who inaugurated himself as a billionaire from the ravishing wealth of the social networking website. Having a net worth of dollar 2. Billion and reported stake just under 3%. Parker enjoys being on number 8 richest youth at the age of only 30 years. The movie named The Social Network, played by Justin Timberlake earned Parker the treasure of fame and money. Currently he is supervising an endeavor capital platform that sponsors tech companies and is called Founders Fund. He is also investing money into Spotify, a European music firm that is anticipated to be inaugurated in the coming year in U.S.
5. Yoshikazu Tanaka
Country: Japan
Age: 34
Net Worth: $2.2 billion
Tanaka has founded the largest social networking website of Japan called Gree, had worked with the largest internet service portal in China the Tencent with a boom of 35% stocked up in last year. Gree is all set to confront Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook anytime in early future. Yoshikazu Tanaka began making money from Sony and worked in collaboration with Hiroshi Mikitani, another billionaire in the row, at cyber shopping website Rakuten. The name Gree is enthused from Stanley Milgram’s, American social psychologist, theory of “six degrees of separation.” For challenging competitive rivalry, Tanaka modified the site into mobile gaming.
4. Scott Duncan
Country: United States
Age: 28
Net Worth: $3.4 billion
When young Duncan’s father late Dan Duncan, expired in March 2010 at the age of 77, he was smart enough to take up partial charge of the pipeline realm worth $12.4 billion. Dan Duncan had started from scratch in 1968 with a small setup of Enterprise Products an energy firm with only two trucks at the beginning, but before his death he was the richest man of Houston. At present the company owns more than 49,000 miles of pipelines.
3. Dustin Moskovitz
Country: United States
Age: 26
Net Worth: $3.5 billion
Not only the number one but also the world’s youngest billionaire, Moskovitz was also a Harvard student who was formed the trio of Facebook creators. Moskovitz is only eight days younger from Zuckerberg and was his roommate at university. The two decided to give their undivided attention to the social networking site they had developed, dropped out of Harvard and settled in California. Moskovitz was Facebook’s vice president of engineering and prior to that position he was the chief technology officer. In 2008 he left to offer his services to a new company called Asana that aided small firms and ambitious individuals for improved cooperation among themselves. Asana was based upon several values that included “pragmatism”, “accepting your fault” and “being a mensch.”
2. Yang Huiyan
Country: China
Age: 29
Net Worth: $4.1 billion
Finally a female on the list, Yang Huiyan is the major stockholder of the country’s biggest estate developers, Country Garden Holdings of Guangzhou which is chaired by her father Yeung Kwok Keung. Prior to the nationalization of the company, Keung had given the custody to Yang in 2007, Hong Kong. Yang is a graduate from Ohio State University with majors in marketing and logistics. Country Garden Holdings is undergoing flourishing times as per their sales in 2010 due to the land bulk the firm owns.
1. Mark Zuckerberg
Country: United States
Age: 26
Net Worth: $17.5 billion
Facebook, co-founded and chief-executed by Zuckerberg, had caused massive eruption of riots in Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Tunisia. It had received great words of compliment from President Obama as a great depiction of America’s modernization in his January State of the Union address. Zuckerberg had been honored to have dined with the country’s leading tech tycoons like Apple’s Steve Jobs in the White House with President Obama a month after that address. In the year 2011, Mark’s wealth had effectively flourished to $13.5 billion as Facebook was sponsored by large multinational firms like Goldman Sachs that improved its net worth to $50 billion.
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