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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