This document lists the top ten youngest billionaires in the world in 2014, including their ages, backgrounds, and sources of wealth. Perenna Kei of Hong Kong, aged 24, inherited her $1.3 billion fortune and stake in a property company from her father. American Dustin Moskovitz, aged 30, co-founded Facebook and Asana and has a net worth of $6.8 billion. Mark Zuckerberg, aged 30, founded Facebook and has a net worth of $28.5 billion despite earning a $1 annual salary.
1. Top Ten Youngest Billionaires
1. Perenna Kei
Twenty four years old Hongkonger, Perenna Kei has been labelled as the youngest
billionaire for 2014 as she possess $1.3 billion along with 85% stake in Logan
Property Holdings. She is the daughter of Ji Haipeng – CEO and Chairman of
Logan Property Holdings. At present Perenna is the non-executive director at her
father’s company and has completed her economics and finance bachelor’s
degree from the University of London.
2. 2. Dustin Moskovitz
Born on 22nd May 1984 in Gainesville, Florida; Dustin Moskovitz grew up to
become the youngest billionaire in the United States as he owns $6.8 billion as per
2014 Forbes’ ranking. He was Mark Zuckerberg’s roommate at Harvard and
Facebook’s third employee. Dustin left Facebook in 2008 and co-found Asana
along with Justin Rosenstein. Even the philanthropic organization Good Ventures
was established by him and his wife, Cari Tuna.
3. 3. Mark Zuckerberg
Launch of Facebook was not the sole reason why Mark Zuckerberg
became popular throughout the globe. Since 2011, the 1984 born
American has been consistently part of the world’s youngest
billionaires list as of 2014 with current worth of 28.5 billion.
Furthermore he even tops the record of top internet made billionaires.
Despite being the chief executive and chairman of Facebook he earns
one-dollar salary and belongs to the elite group of $1 CEOs.
4. 4. Anton Kathrein Jr
Coming from the family of the largest and oldest antenna
manufacturer in the world, Anton Kathrein Jr is very next person to run
the Kathrein-Werke AG Company after the death of Anton Sr. in 2012.
Kathrein Jr owns $1.35 billion and is the third generation to guide and
carry forward the family business. His company generated $1.8 billion
in revenue during 2012 and as of 2014 has 18 production sites
internationally.
5. 5. Drew Houston
Well known for launching Dropbox – an online backup and storage service, Drew
Houston is a new entry into the list of youngest billionaires 2014 with a sum value
of $1.2 billion. He is thirty and is the CEO of his self made company. Accolade, Bit9
and Hubspot were the places where he had worked prior to Dropbox. From
Massachusetts Institute of Technology he received his bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science.
6. 6. Albert II
The thirty years old German aristocrat – Albert, besides being the 12th Prince of
Thurn and Taxis has even started appearing among the 10 youngest billionaires in
the world. Presently his fortunes include a tech company, art, real estate, 30,000
hectares of woodland in Germany and net worth of $3.8 billion. He is a direct
descend of King Miguel I of Portugal and is thus associated to a number of
reigning hereditary heads of state in Europe.
7. 7. Scott Duncan
An heir to the Duncan family fortune, Scott Duncan is the most eligible bachelor in
Texas with value worth $6.3 billion. Born in 1983, he is the only son of his late
father, Dan Duncan – the founder of Enterprise Products and assumes partial
control of the $12.4 billion pipeline empire. Scott lives in Houston and has three
sisters as beneficiary to his father’s wealth.
8. 8. Eduardo Saverin
Another co-founder of Facebook that has been counted as one of the top 10
youngest billionaires is none other than Eduardo Saverin with net worth of $4.1
billion. Initially he served as the chief financial officer and business manager of
Facebook until some issues rose up in the latter years. He was born on 19th March
1982 in Brazil and shifted to the United Sates along with his family in 1993. Eduardo
holds a degree in Economics from Harvard University.
9. 9. Yang Huiyan
One amid the richest people in Mainland China, Yang Huiyan has as well gained
status as one of the top 10 youngest billionaires for the past three years. $6.9
billion to be her estimated value as of 2014, Yang is even the maximum
shareholder of Country Garden Holdings. She graduated from The Ohio State
University in 2003 and is the daughter of Yang Guoqiang – the founder of
Biguiyuan Company.
10. 10. Fahd Hariri
The youngest son of Rafiq Hariri – the Lebanese Prime Minister who was
assassinated, Fahd Hariri inherited his father’s property concerning the
construction business and allowed him to gather net worth of $1.2 billion. Beside
this he as well runs a furniture store in Paris, contributes to small internationals
businesses and for the well fare of five-star hotels in Dubai. He has a degree in
architecture.