5. Garrett Camp (36)
Net worth: $6 billion
Source of wealth: Uber technologies
As a post-grad student Gareth in 2002 founded StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool and in 2007 sold it to ebay for $75 million. In 2009, the Canadian co-founded Uber, an online car-hire service. Uber’s services which dominates in major US cities has its operations active in 58 countries. The company is currently valued at $50 billion.
4. Travis Kalanick (38)
Net worth: $6 billion
Source of wealth: Uber technologies
For Travis, the journey to becoming a billionaire wasn’t quite night follows day. Before making it big as CEO and co-founder of Uber technologies, Travis founded online file-sharing service but it failed after being sued by two top American media associations, again in 2001, he founded online peer-peer file sharing service Red Swoosh which he sold to Akamai Tech in 2007 for $18.7 million.
3. Jan Koum (39)
Net worth: $7.9 billion
Source of wealth: WhatsApp
The Ukrainian born internetpreneur co-founded WhatsApp, which is currently the world’s largest instant messaging app for smartphones with over 800 million worldwide users. After selling WhatsApp Inc in February 2014, to Facebook Inc for $19 billion, he became one of the managing directors of Facebook Inc. WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton who is worth $3.7 billion would’ve been on this list if he didn’t exceed by 3 years the age limit.
2. Dustin Moskovitz (31)
Net worth: $9.6 billion
Source of wealth: Facebook
Dustin is the second wealthiest of the five Harvard dorm roommates who co-founded Facebook. In 2008, he left Facebook to build Asana a software firm but still kept his 5% stake in Facebook. Dustin also sits on the BOD of artificial intelligence company Vicarious FPC Inc and runs Good Ventures, a philanthropic foundation with his wife. In 2012 Forbes announced him the richest self-made billionaire in history.
1. Mark Zuckerberg (31)
Net worth: $41.2 billion
Source of wealth: Facebook
Everyone knows the story of the Harvard dorm roommates that brought about the invention of Facebook in 2004, well except you’ve been hiding under a rock. At 23, Facebook already made Mark a billionaire. He is the chairman, CEO and richest of all 5 co-founders of the most popular social media on earth. With about 1.49 billion monthly users, Facebook employs a total of 11,000 people worldwide.
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