Two Americans, two Germans and one Chinese business tycoon are on top of the youngest billionaires this year. With its highest earnings during the second quarter of 2014. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is still dominating the youngest billionaire's club under 30 years old category. A newcomer in the list, Hongkong based, Perenna Kei is the youngest among the richest.
Presently, there are 1,645 billionaires in the world who are coined as the wealthiest among the wealthy individuals. However, approximately 20 among the list of the Forbes billionaire's club are under 30. With the combination of money and youth, these young individuals have a total of $119 billion of assets. Most of them are coming from the technology sector, especially from the popular social networking sites like Facebook.
This is quite interesting, as these young adults generate this huge money while they are still in their twenties. Below are the lists of Forbes top 5 youngest billionaire in the world.
5. Perenna Kei
Age: 24
Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Kei who previously used the name Ji Peili, owns more than half of the Logan Property Holdings in Hongkong, is the youngest billionaire in the world. She inherited the real estate company from her father, Ji Haipeng who is a business mogul himself. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics and finance from the University of London.
4: Anton Kathrein, Jr
Age: 29
Net Worth: $1.35 billion
He currently leads his family's company, Kathrein-Werke AG, who was founded by his grandfather in Rosenheim, Germany in 2012 and was passed on to his father in 1972 until his unexpected death in 2012. The company is a pioneer in automotive antennas and is the oldest and largest antenna manufacturer worldwide with 18 production sites and over 6,800 employees.
3. Albert von Thurn and Taxis
Age: 29
Net Worth: from $1.5 billion last year to $3.8 billion this year
He would certainly be called Albert of Thurn and Taxis. He is the youngest prince of a famous old German aristocrat family that can be traced their roots to the Holy Roman Empire when their ancestor, Leonhard von Taxis, was the postmaster general at that time. Their ancestry is known for its breweries and castles, which were maintained for over generations.
Albert von Thurn and Taxis studied high school in Rome and served in the military. Afterwhich, he went back to schooling and studied Technology and Economics at the University of Edinburgh. His favorite past time is carraching, which made him won second place in 2006 and first place in 2010 of the ADAC GT Masters Championship in Germany.
2. Dustin Moskovitz
Age: 29
Net Worth: From $3.5 billion last year to 6.8 billion this year
He is among the other co-founder of Facebook who also studied at Harvard University. Moskovitz became the company's first Chief Technology Office and later the Vice President for Engineering. However, he left Facebook in 2008 and co-found a mobile communication application called Asana.
1. Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 29
Net Worth: $28.5 billion last month to $33.1 billion this month
Since he became the Chief Executive Officer of the Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is one of the world's most watched billionaires at present. At present, he has a net worth of $28.5 billion which ranked him on top for the past years as the richest youngest man 30 and below. He and his friends formed the social networking site in 2004 intended only within the Harvard University. After its creation, the local community became interested and branched out in the country and other parts of the globe. Although he never graduated at Harvard, he values education as he allegedly donated over a hundred million dollars to the public schools in Newark, New Jersey.
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