22 of the Richest People Under 25

While a great deal of the world today may look at young people and think they do not put the effort and resources into showing motivation to do great things, there can be nothing further from the truth. All one has to do is take a look around today at all of the young people that are starting successful businesses and ventures of their own and doing quite well at it to realize there are many young people that have reached high levels of financial success today. Here is a list of 25 of the richest people under the age of 25 that have shown what they can do.

22. Catherine Cook, 25

Catherine, at the young age of 14, along with her brother, helped come up with the idea of having a school yearbook online and steadily developed that idea into myYearbook.com, one of the most successful online social networking sites that recently merged with Quepasa in a deal worth over $100 million.

21. William Zhou, 23

William is an entrepreneur that has been involved in several different Internet ventures starting at a very young age, but is most noted for the founding of Chalk.com, a software company that targets education software for years K-12.

20. Dmitri Gaskin, 19

At just 19 years old Dmitri dropped out of Stanford and became the CTO of Branchmetrics, a company that allows applications to talk to each other easily through links. The company has grown from having 10,000 devices to over 100 million and has raised significant capital for investing.

19. Ted Gonder, 24

Ted is the co-founder of Moneythink, a curriculum that is designed to educate high school students about the world of finance through the use of references they understand through pop culture. Ted serves on the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability of Young Americans.

18. Douglas Hanna, 24

Douglas is the founder of Help.com, an online customer service resource for businesses that are look for ways to improve and provide better customer service to their customers through the use of live chat software. Many companies have turned to this as the best way to interact with customers today.

17. Marcin Kleczynski, 25

Marcin is the creator and founder of Malwarebytes, one of the most well-known malware security companies to help protect businesses, computers and smartphones. Created when he was just 14, the program is now used on over 250 million computers today.

16. Brian Wong, 24

An Internet entrepreneur from Canada, Brian developed and founded Kiip, a mobile application that allows for games to provide rewards in the real world to players for achievements they have completed within the game. He is seen as one of the young millionaires that could change the world.

15. Daniel Radcliffe, 25

Daniel is primarily known as the young actor that portrayed Harry Potter in the Harry Potter films and has amassed quite a fortune as a result of his efforts. While he has done other movies and plays around the world, the Potter films have given him a net worth of over $110 million.

14. Justin Bieber, 21

Justin is another young entertainer that has branched out into other ventures to help grow his monetary worth. Known for his singing and songwriting that appeals primarily to a younger set, he also has other business ventures that use his name so he has been able to accumulate a worth over $180 million.

13. Taylor Swift, 25

Taylor Swift is perhaps the most well-known entertainer in the world telling, having sold millions of albums worldwide since a very young age. She has been able to parlay her fame into one of the most powerful young women in the entertainment industry and has a worth in excess of $200 million dollars today.

12. Nick D’ Aloisio, 19

Nick is an Internet entrepreneur and computer programmer and he is known best for being the inventor of Summly, an artificial intelligence technology. He has received many accolades at just the age of 19 and has venture capital investments of over a billion dollars behind him for his work.

11. Mubarak Muyika, 20

A Kenyan that was orphaned at 11 years old, Mubarak has become a very powerful inventor today. He founded Hypecentury Technologies, a web hosting company and is also the founder of Zag Apps, a cloud based enterprise software for companies, all before the age of 20.

10. John Collison, 24

Together with his brother Patrick, John developed the software company Shuppa, which later became the company Auctomatic and was sold to Live Current Media for millions of dollars. The two also founded Stripe, which has received significant financial backing from the likes of billionaire Elon Musk.

9. India Rose James, 23

India Rose is the granddaughter and heiress to the fortune of Paul Raymond, a property mogul in England known as the “King of Soho.” She inherited most of his fortune when he passed away in 2008, leaving with over $450 million dollars at the age of 23.

8. Miley Cyrus, 22

While just as many people seem to dislike her as like, Miley has been able to work her fame on television, movies, magazines and merchandise since a very young age and now has a very strong music career that provides her with a worth of over $165 million.

7. Emma Roberts, 24

Some may know her mostly as being the niece of Julia Roberts, but Emma Roberts is now one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. That, combined with her endorsements and investments, has also made her one of the wealthiest, with a worth of over $185 million at 24 years old.

6. One Direction, 21 – 23

The group of five young men from Britain, all under the age of 25, have been one of the most popular musical acts in the world for the last several years. Between the tours, sales of their albums and merchandise they have become the wealthiest group in the world.

5. Palmer Luckey, 22

Palmer is the founder of Oculus VR and is also the inventor of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality display system worn on the head. He developed the ideas at age 18, garnered huge investments in the company and it was recently sold to Facebook for over $2 billion.

4. Aodhan Cullen, 22

Aodhan is the founder and CEO of StatCounter, a tool used for web traffic analysis. He founded the company when he was just sixteen years old and was named Entrepreneur of the Year that year in 2007. The tool is used on 3% of all the websites in the world.

3. Bobby Murphy, 22

Bobby is well-known for being the co-founder of Snapchat, the famous video messaging application that is used by millions of people all around the world. The company itself is valued somewhere between $10-20 billion and Murphy’s worth is estimated at over $1 billion.

2. Evan Spiegel, 24

Evan, along with Bobby Murphy, is one of the young co-founders of the Snapchat application. At the age of just 24, he is currently worth an estimated $1.4 billion because of his stake in the video messaging company.

1. Perenna Kei, 24

Perenna, a Chinese businesswoman, is considered to be the youngest billionaire in the world. She is the majority owner of Logan Property Holdings, a major real estate company, and at 23 became the youngest billionaire with a worth of approximately $1.4 billion.

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