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The article brings some world most amazing people who
got success in a short period and age. They also consider to be the most
intelligent. They may be young, but the following seven people had the
vision and drive to turn themselves into billionaires before they
reached the ripe "old" age of forty.
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Yusaku Maezawa: from rock star to mega-rich retailer
by age 35
Yusaku Maezawa is a former rock musician who started selling CDs and
band t-shirts online back in the early 1990's. He then started a company
called Start Today, along with a wildly-successful e-commerce site
called Zozotown. Zozotown is set up like a mall, with different shops
for different types of fashion and other products that are all sold on
consignment.
The company has doubled its value every year since it was established in
2005, and Zozotown currently has over 3 million subscribers (one must
subscribe in order to access Zozotown). At age 35, Maezawa is a
billionaire and his company is still flourishing despite hard economic
times felt elsewhere in the world.
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Mark Zuckerberg: the 26 year-old geek who created an empire
Twenty-six year-old Mark Zuckerberg is the computer savvy Harvard
student who created a little website you might have heard of called
Facebook. Though there is some controversy over who came up with the
idea for the social networking site (see the 2010 blockbuster "The
Social Network"), there is no denying that it was Zuckerberg's hard work
and brain power that brought Facebook to life and made it the most
popular social networking site online today.
To date, Zuckerberg has made over 13.8 billion U.S. dollars. To his
credit, Zuckerberg has already donated hundreds of thousands of dollars
to charities and recently pledged to donate over half of his fortune to
charity either over the course of his lifetime or after his death.
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Yoshikazu Tanaka: the 34 year-old who wants to rule
the (social media) world
Watch out, Zuckerberg... Yoshikazu Tanaka is coming for you! Founder of
Japan's largest social networking site, Gree, Tanaka (age 34) is already
worth over $2.2 billion. Tanaka aims for global expansion and will soon
establish a California office for Gree.
The name "Gree" is a play on the expression, "Six degrees of
separation."
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Dustin Moskovitz: the 26 year-old who had the best college roommate ever
Just 8 days younger than his Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg,
Dustin Moskovitz was Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate and Facebook's third
employee. Serving as Facebook's first Chief Technology Officer and Vice
President of Engineering, Moskovitz amassed a self-worth of over $2.7
billion. He left Facebook in 2008 to start his own company, Asana.
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Oleg Bakhmatyuk: an egg-cellent 35 year-old business
man
This 35-year-old from western Ukraine is the majority owner of Avangard,
Ukraine's largest producer and exporter of chicken eggs.
Yes, chicken eggs! Bakhmatyuk worked previously in the lucrative state
gas and oil industry, but moved into egg and egg products because he
thinks that businesses will be increasingly interested in feeding the
world's hungry people in the future.
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Sergey Brin: you might not know this 38 year-old's name, but you
probably used his website today
This thirty-eight year-old Russian-American computer scientist and
industrialist co-founded Google, the world's largest Internet company,
with Larry Page. As of 2011, his personal wealth is estimated to be
$19.8 billion.
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Xiaofeng Peng: the 36 year-old who makes money from
the sun.
Xiaofeng Peng, age 36, is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief
Executive Officer of LDK Solar Co., Ltd. He founded the company in July
2005 and it went public in 2007; it is now worth over $1.8 billion. Peng
has made his own personal fortune of $1.5 billion all through renewable
solar energy.
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