Currently, only in the US there are at least 40 wealthiest entrepreneurs from the category of self-made people. While many of their agemates are still studying at universities, these young people are in full control of multibillion-dollar deals and are in charge of large teams.
Palmer Luckey, 23
Estimated wealth:$700 million
Palmer Luckey is the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display. The popularity of this product was brought by the Kickstarter company. In less than two hours, Lucky raised $ 250,000, and for a month his fortune reached $ 2.4 million. Luckey has become "the face of virtual reality in gaming" and a celebrity among virtual reality enthusiasts.
Evan Spiegel, 25
Estimated wealth: $2.1 billion
At the ripe age of 25, the Snapchat CEO is the youngest billionaire in the world after launching the popular photo-sharing app with two of his former Stanford classmates. This year more than $ 540 million of investments were attracted to this business, and later - $ 1.6 billion. For the current generation, Snapchat has become something like "anti-facebook", a platform for self-expression with the possibility of complete anonymity.
Bobby Murphy, 27
Estimated wealth: $1.8 billion
Just five years out of college, the CTO of Snapchat is one of the youngest billionaires in the world, along with his Snapchat cofounder Spiegel. The two met during their days as Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers at Stanford.
John Collison, 26
Estimated wealth: $750 million
The Harvard dropout cofounded Stripe, an online payment company, with his brother Patrick in 2011. The Irish-born brothers now live in San Francisco, where the company is based. At the moment, investors estimate the Stripe at $ 5 billion, and it is considered as the breakthrough in the field of payment services since PayPal. Collinson's service set the goal to make it easier for people to participate in any transactions and coped with this task perfectly.
Patrick Collison, 27
Estimated wealth: $750 million
The Stripe cofounder and CEO dropped out of MIT to partner with his brother John and pursue an entrepreneurial path. Their start-up was most recently valued at $5 billion in October.
Apoorva Mehta, 29
Estimated wealth: $400 million
Apoorva Mehta is the founder of Instacart. Formally speaking Instacart is an Internet-based grocery delivery service. Instacart's service is mainly provided through a smartphone app, available on iOS and Android platforms, apart from its website. Customers can pay with Android Pay and Apple Pay on their respective platforms. Initially Instacart shoppers simply went to a store and purchased the ordered items at retail. Instacart is valued by investors at $2 billion.
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