The 5 Richest Billionaires Under Age 35
Scott Fitzgerald once famously remarked to his fellow writer and drinking buddy Ernest Hemingway: "The rich are different than you and me."
To which Papa Hemingway replied: "Yes, they have more money."
The Millennials listed below are different from you and me in at least two respects: They have more money than they could possibly spend in several lifetimes and they're shockingly -- perhaps annoyingly -- young.
Here's our list of the six youngest billionaires under 40. Ages and net worth were calculated as of 2015. The rankings below go from the largest to the least amount of wealth.
Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 31
Net Worth: $41.6 billion
Mark Zuckerberg is the embodiment of the popular cliche of the rich high-technology entrepreneur who wears sandals and hoodies and has maladroit social manners. In Zuckerberg's case, the description fits. His exploits as techno-geek and Facebook (FB) - Get Report founder have been colorfully described in the book The Accidental Billionaires (2010), which became the Oscar-winning movie The Social Network (2010).
Facebook turned 11 in 2015. since the company's 2012 initial public offering, CEO Zuckerberg's net worth has more than doubled. That dough buys a lot of hoodies.
Dustin Moskovitz
Age: 31
Net Worth: $9.3 billion
Dustin Moskovitz helped start Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, when the two shared a dorm room at Harvard. After two years, Moskovitz dropped out of college to work on the company full time.
Moskovitz left Facebook in 2008 to launch his own ventures related to social media. Notably, he founded software company Asana, which makes workplace collaboration tools. Asana's clients include Airbnb, Foursquare, Pinterest, and Uber.
Noteworthy: It was Moskovitz's advice that persuaded Facebook's founders to reject a paltry $100 million offer for the company that Google (GOOG) - Get Report (now called Alphabet) made in February 2011.
Yang Huiyan
Age: 34
Net Worth: $5.9 billion
Yang Huiyan is the daughter of Chinese real-estate impresario Yang Guoquiang. She is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings, a property development company based in Guangdong Province, China, owned by Yang Guoqiang's family.
Yang Huiyan is the 24th wealthiest person in mainland China, the youngest female billionaire on the planet, and the richest woman in Asia. The source of her wealth: inheritance.
All of which goes to show that daughters should stay on the good sides of their daddies.
Eduardo Luiz Saverin
Age: 33
Net Worth: $5.3 billion
Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian-born Internet entrepreneur, Harvard-trained economist and angel investor in a host of entrepreneurial start-ups. He renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2012 and now lives in Singapore, where he's been scouting for the next high-tech wonder that will grow into another Facebook. Perhaps lighting can strike again for Saverin, who regardless, doesn't need the money.
Scott Daniel Duncan
Age: 32
Net Worth: $5 billion
Scott is the heir to Dan L. Duncan, the Texas-born oilman and co-founder of Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) - Get Report . Duncan is a storied name in the energy patch, which is seeing rough times as oil and gas prices remain depressed. But that shouldn't make too much of a dent in the fortune of son Scott, who lives in Houston and invests in a wide variety of businesses.
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John Persinos is editorial manager and investment analyst at Investing Daily. At the time of publication, the author held no positions in the stocks mentioned.