America’s Youngest Billionaires (20 pics)
20. Ken Griffin
Griffin, 44, is worth an estimated $4.4 billion. He made his money through his Citadel Group, which had a 25 percent return in 2012.
19. Jerry Yang
Yang, 44, left, is worth an estimated $1.7 billion. Yang made his money by founding Yahoo. He left the company in January 2012.
18. David Einhorn
Einhorn, 44, is worth an estimated $1.4 billion. He made his money by founding the hedge fund Greenlight Capital.
17. Milane Frantz
Frantz, 44, is worth $5.5 billion and is the daughter of the late Dan Duncan, who was formerly the richest man in Houston. Duncan died in 2010.
16. Eric Lefkofsky
Lefkofsky, 44, is worth an estimated $1.75 billion. He made his money as an investor and founder of Groupon.
15. Elon Musk
Musk, 42, is worth an estimated $8 billion. Musk has numerous projects, but he is most notably associated with Tesla, a luxury electric carmaker.
14. Daniel Ziff
Ziff, 41, is worth an estimated $4.6 billion. He is the son of publishing czar Williams Ziff Jr., who died in 2006.
13. Michael Rubin
Rubin, 41, is worth an estimated $2.3 billion. He made his money from the e-commerce company GSI Commerce. The company was purchased by eBay for $2.4 billion in 2011.
12. Kevin Plank
Plank, 41, is worth an estimated $1.7 billion. He made his money by starting Under Armour Inc.
11. Larry Page
Page, 40, is worth an estimated $24.9 billion. Page co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.
10. Sergey Brin
Brin, 40, is worth an estimated $24.9 billion. He made his money by co-founding Google with Larry Page.
9. John Arnold
Arnold, 39, is worth an estimated $2.8 billion. He made his fortunes working in the hedge fund business. He is one of two young billionaires from Houston.
8. Chase Coleman
Coleman, 38, is worth an estimated $1.4 billion. He made his money through his Tiger Global hedge fund.
7. Nick Woodman
Woodman, 38, is worth an estimated $1.3 billion. He made his money by founding GoPro.
6. Jack Dorsey
Dorsey, 36, is worth an estimated $1.3 billion. He made most of his wealth by investing in the mobile payment company Square. Oh, he also started Twitter.
5. Robert Pera
Pera, 35, is worth an estimated $1.95 billion. He made his money by starting Ubiquiti Networks. He purchased the Memphis Grizzlies in 2012.
4. Sean Parker
Parker, 33, is worth $2 billion. Parker started Napster, and he also served as Facebook’s first president. He did all of that before turning 25.
3. Scott Duncan
Duncan, 30, is worth an estimated $5.5 billion. He inherited his fortune from Dan Duncan, founder of Enterprise Products Partners. He is the fourth youngest billionaire and one of two young billionaires from Houston.
2. Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg, 29, is worth $19 billion. Zuckerberg made his cash after starting up Facebook.
1. Dustin Moskovitz
Moskovitz, 29, is worth $5.2 billion, and he’s the world’s youngest billionaire. Moskovitz was Mark Zuckerberg’s former roommate, and he helped launch Facebook with Zuckerberg.
