Meet The 10 Youngest Billionaires In The World 2021 | Forbes

typically most people joining the billionaires club are well past their formative years but in 2021 forbes listed 10 billionaires under the age of 30. these 10 are worth a collective 29.5 billion and come from a wide variety of industries and backgrounds here's a quick look at this cohort from the oldest to the youngest at number 10 is jonathan kwok with a net worth of 2.4 billion the 29 year old and his older brother inherited a portion of their father's stake in hong kong property developer sun hong kai properties at number nine is sam bankman freed with 8.7 billion bankman freed is 29 years old and built his fortune with cryptocurrency he launched both the trading firm alameda research which manages 2.5 billion in assets and the derivative trading platform ftx number eight and seven both come from food delivery company doordash co-founders andy fang and stanley tang are both 28 and both worth 2 billion the company was founded in 2013 but became more prevalent and valuable during the covet 19 pandemic it also went public in december 2020. number six is gustav magnar witso a 27 year old worth 4.4 billion his fortune comes from owning nearly half of salmar asa a norwegian salmon producer his father found it in 1991. his fortune nearly doubled in the past year because of the company's strong market performance number five is austin russell a 26 year old worth 2.4 billion he dropped out of stanford in 2012 after receiving a hundred thousand dollar teal fellowship to start luminar technologies which makes sensors and other tech for self-driving vehicles in december 2020 luminar went public through a spac merger russell owns about one third of the company number four and three come from norway number four is katharina andreessen a 25-year-old worth 1.4 billion and number three is alexander andreessen age 24 and also worth 1.4 billion the sisters are part of ferd a norwegian based investment company run by their father that reels in about 2 billion in annual revenue number 2 is wang xe long a 24 year old worth 1.5 billion wang inherited a stake worth more than 1.3 billion in cnnc hua huan titanium dioxide co which trades on the shenzhen stock exchange the company's product is used in coatings plastics ink and other materials and finally at number one is kevin david layman an 18 year old worth 3.3 billion this happened after he officially inherited his father's 50 stake in german drugstore chain drug remarked

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Published: Wed May 26 2021