10. Arash Ferdowsi, 26 – Net worth: $400 million
in 2007 Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox, an installable program that lets users save files online and access it from any computer they are using as long as that PC has Dropbox installed and they can log into their account. The two former MIT students were tired of emailing files to themselves in order to work from more than one computer. Ferdowsi dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 after three years at the school. He's currently the company's Chief Technology Officer.
Today, more than 300 million people across every continent use Dropbox to always have their stuff at hand, share with family and friends, and work on team projects. We're looking for more great people to join us, so if you're excited to help simplify life for millions of people.
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9. Drew Houston, 29 - Net wroth: $1,6 billion
Drew Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur who is best known for being the co founder and CEO of Dropbox.
Just last June 2013 MIT invited Houston to speak at their graduation ceremony. During his speech he praised Ferdowsi working with him and pushing him to bring the company where it is now. He then told the students to think carefully about the circle of people they spend time with and what they can do for each other. Before working on Dropbox, Houston also worked with other online companies like security platform Bit9, marketing site Hubspot and Accolade.
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8. Kevin Systrom, 27 – Net worth: $470 million
Kevin Systrom (born December 30, 1983) is an American entrepreneur and software engineer, best known as the co‑founder and CEO of Instagram, an online mobile photo, video sharing application and social networking service for iPhone and Android that allow users to apply a filter to a photo and share it on the service or on other social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr.[3] In 2013, Systrom was listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 list under the Social/Mobile category.[4] Together with Mike Krieger, Systrom launched Instagram in San Francisco on October 6, 2010. Instagram is one of the fastest growing services of all time, hitting 80M users by July 26, 2012 and it was acquired by Facebook for $1B less than 2 years after its launch.
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7. Adam D'Angelo, 27, Net worth: $680 million
Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded. Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are created, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010.
Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the Facebook Platform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
- See more at: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/adam-d-angelo#sthash.W2TbcvZ3.dpuf
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6. Chris Hughes, 28 – Net worth: $935 million
In 2008 Chris Hughes was selected to work on the presidential campaign as the Director of Online Organizing. He pioneered the efforts behind the MyBarackObama social network for supporters and volunteers. Hughes later merged his political and social media expertise to found Jumo, a Facebook-based social network for nonprofits. He also served as spokesman Facebook. He is currently the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, after purchasing the magazine in 2012.
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5. Albert von Thurn und Taxis, 29 – Net worth: $1.5 billion
Albert von Thurn un Taxis from Germany first got listed as a billionaire when he just 8 years old. He is the 12th prince in his family line and officially inherited his fortune in 2001, on his 18th birthday. In June 2008, he received an M.A. in economics and theology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. His assets include real estate, art and 36,000 hectares of woodland in Germany, one of the largest forest holdings in Europe. An eligible bachelor, he lives in the family castle in Bavaria, Schloss Emmeram, and drives race cars -- touring with a German league. In 2010 he won the ADAC GT Masters championship for Reiter Engineering (together with Peter Kox). Meanwhile, his mother, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, manages the family fortune. Appearing in photos taken at their castle, society parties and noble weddings, Gloria, Albert and his two sisters, Maria Theresia and Elisabeth, are no strangers to the paparazzi.
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4. Eduardo Saverin Age, 30 – Net worth: $2.2 billion
Eduardo Saverin is the second co-founder of Facebook in this list. His family moved to the U.S. from their native Brazil after Saverin’s father found out he was being targeted by kidnap-for-ransom gangs. Saverin grew up in the U.S., was naturalized and came to study at Harvard. He founded Facebook along with Chris Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz but later left the company and fought over his shares with the other co-founders in court.
In the end he won a five-percent stake in Facebook. He also moved to Singapore, renounced his U.S. citizenship and is living as a Brazilian citizen again.
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3. Scott Duncan Age, 30 – Net worth: $5.5 billion
Duncan is the only son of Lee Ellis and Dan Duncan who co-founded Enterprise Products Partners LP and then took it public in 1998. In 2010, Enterprise consisted of over 48,700 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines and nearly 220 million barrel equivalents of natural gas and natural gas liquids of storage capacity.[3] He also headed mid-stream energy firms Duncan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: DEP) and Enterprise GP Holdings LP (NYSE: EPE). His father died aged 77 of a cerebral hemorrhage at his River Oaks, Houston home on March 28, 2010. He inherited $3.1B upon the death of his father along with each of his sisters inheriting the same share. Due to an elimination of the estate tax for the year 2010, Duncan became the first American billionaire to pay no estate tax since its enactment. He lives in Houston and his net worth continues to grow at a fast pace
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2. Dustin Moskovitz, 28 – Net worth: $7.9 billion
Moskovitz is another co-founder of Facebook along with Harvard schoolmates Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin. He became Facebook’s first Chief Technology Officer and soon rose up to become Vice President of Engineering. In 2008 he left Facebook to co-found Asana, a mobile communication application, with Justin Rosenstein. It was what they described as something that “will be to your work life what Facebook is to your social life.”
Away from work Moskovitz spends time on his philanthropic organization Good Ventures with his fiancée Cari Tuna.
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1. Mark Zuckerberg, 28 – Net worth: $33,3 billion
Mark Zuckerberg is a computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook. Zuckerberg has become one the world’s most-watched Chief Executive Officers since Facebook took off. He and friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin formed Facebook in 2004 originally intending it for Harvard students only. After it caught on, it was expanded to include the local community and other schools until it eventually branched out into the country and the world. Today around a billion people are Facebook users.
Like Moskovitz, Zuckerberg never graduated from Harvard. He, however, values education and allegedly donated $100 million to the public school system of Newark, New Jersey. He also founded the Startup Education Foundation. As of April 2013, Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc. and his personal wealth, as of July 2014, is estimated to be $33.1 billion
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10. Arash Ferdowsi, 26 – Net worth: $400 million
9. Drew Houston, 29 - Net wroth: $1,6 billion
Drew Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur who is best known for being the co founder and CEO of Dropbox.
Just last June 2013 MIT invited Houston to speak at their graduation ceremony. During his speech he praised Ferdowsi working with him and pushing him to bring the company where it is now. He then told the students to think carefully about the circle of people they spend time with and what they can do for each other. Before working on Dropbox, Houston also worked with other online companies like security platform Bit9, marketing site Hubspot and Accolade.
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8. Kevin Systrom, 27 – Net worth: $470 million
Kevin Systrom (born December 30, 1983) is an American entrepreneur and software engineer, best known as the co‑founder and CEO of Instagram, an online mobile photo, video sharing application and social networking service for iPhone and Android that allow users to apply a filter to a photo and share it on the service or on other social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr.[3] In 2013, Systrom was listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 list under the Social/Mobile category.[4] Together with Mike Krieger, Systrom launched Instagram in San Francisco on October 6, 2010. Instagram is one of the fastest growing services of all time, hitting 80M users by July 26, 2012 and it was acquired by Facebook for $1B less than 2 years after its launch.
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7. Adam D'Angelo, 27, Net worth: $680 million
Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded. Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are created, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010.
Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the Facebook Platform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
- See more at: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/adam-d-angelo#sthash.W2TbcvZ3.dpuf
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6. Chris Hughes, 28 – Net worth: $935 million
In 2008 Chris Hughes was selected to work on the presidential campaign as the Director of Online Organizing. He pioneered the efforts behind the MyBarackObama social network for supporters and volunteers. Hughes later merged his political and social media expertise to found Jumo, a Facebook-based social network for nonprofits. He also served as spokesman Facebook. He is currently the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, after purchasing the magazine in 2012.
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5. Albert von Thurn und Taxis, 29 – Net worth: $1.5 billion
Albert von Thurn un Taxis from Germany first got listed as a billionaire when he just 8 years old. He is the 12th prince in his family line and officially inherited his fortune in 2001, on his 18th birthday. In June 2008, he received an M.A. in economics and theology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. His assets include real estate, art and 36,000 hectares of woodland in Germany, one of the largest forest holdings in Europe. An eligible bachelor, he lives in the family castle in Bavaria, Schloss Emmeram, and drives race cars -- touring with a German league. In 2010 he won the ADAC GT Masters championship for Reiter Engineering (together with Peter Kox). Meanwhile, his mother, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, manages the family fortune. Appearing in photos taken at their castle, society parties and noble weddings, Gloria, Albert and his two sisters, Maria Theresia and Elisabeth, are no strangers to the paparazzi.
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4. Eduardo Saverin Age, 30 – Net worth: $2.2 billion
Eduardo Saverin is the second co-founder of Facebook in this list. His family moved to the U.S. from their native Brazil after Saverin’s father found out he was being targeted by kidnap-for-ransom gangs. Saverin grew up in the U.S., was naturalized and came to study at Harvard. He founded Facebook along with Chris Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz but later left the company and fought over his shares with the other co-founders in court.
In the end he won a five-percent stake in Facebook. He also moved to Singapore, renounced his U.S. citizenship and is living as a Brazilian citizen again.
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3. Scott Duncan Age, 30 – Net worth: $5.5 billion
Duncan is the only son of Lee Ellis and Dan Duncan who co-founded Enterprise Products Partners LP and then took it public in 1998. In 2010, Enterprise consisted of over 48,700 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines and nearly 220 million barrel equivalents of natural gas and natural gas liquids of storage capacity.[3] He also headed mid-stream energy firms Duncan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: DEP) and Enterprise GP Holdings LP (NYSE: EPE). His father died aged 77 of a cerebral hemorrhage at his River Oaks, Houston home on March 28, 2010. He inherited $3.1B upon the death of his father along with each of his sisters inheriting the same share. Due to an elimination of the estate tax for the year 2010, Duncan became the first American billionaire to pay no estate tax since its enactment. He lives in Houston and his net worth continues to grow at a fast pace
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2. Dustin Moskovitz, 28 – Net worth: $7.9 billion
Moskovitz is another co-founder of Facebook along with Harvard schoolmates Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin. He became Facebook’s first Chief Technology Officer and soon rose up to become Vice President of Engineering. In 2008 he left Facebook to co-found Asana, a mobile communication application, with Justin Rosenstein. It was what they described as something that “will be to your work life what Facebook is to your social life.”
Away from work Moskovitz spends time on his philanthropic organization Good Ventures with his fiancée Cari Tuna.
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1. Mark Zuckerberg, 28 – Net worth: $33,3 billion
Mark Zuckerberg is a computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook. Zuckerberg has become one the world’s most-watched Chief Executive Officers since Facebook took off. He and friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin formed Facebook in 2004 originally intending it for Harvard students only. After it caught on, it was expanded to include the local community and other schools until it eventually branched out into the country and the world. Today around a billion people are Facebook users.
Like Moskovitz, Zuckerberg never graduated from Harvard. He, however, values education and allegedly donated $100 million to the public school system of Newark, New Jersey. He also founded the Startup Education Foundation. As of April 2013, Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc. and his personal wealth, as of July 2014, is estimated to be $33.1 billion
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