Since 2016, who is the youngest billionaire on Forbes list of The Richest 400 People by net worth?
Evan Thomas Spiegel, born June 4, 1990, is the youngest billionaire at 26 in 2016 and now 27 in 2017. Spiegel is co-founder (with Bobby Murphy) and CEO of Snap, Inc., (aka Snapchat) an image messaging and multimedia application. In 2016, he was # 335 on the list at $ 2.1 billion and current rankings has him at # 238 with $ 3.1 billion in net worth.
Spiegel started Snapchat in 2012 while a college student at Stanford as a class project and left Stanford to pursue its growth. In just 5 years it started trading on the NYSE with an estimated worth of $ 40 billion dollars (US).
The top three richest people (regardless of age ) are:
- #1 Bill Gates $81 B
- #2 Jeff Bezos $67 B
- #3 Warren Buffett $65.5 B
The top three youngest are (with ages):
- #238 Evan Spiegel $3.1 B 27
- #237 Bobby Murphy $3.1 B 29
- #34 Lukas Walton $13 B 30
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