Entrepreneurs who gained millions of wealth by their 30s

ByHto 2008

For those who have not been blessed with nature's ability to become professional sports or rock stars, "entrepreneurial spirit" is the only and reliable hope to become rich by middle age. In the world, there are many cases where a merely impersonal man got astronomical assets by well combining idea, time and the Internet. "Five celebrities who became millionaires after leaving schoolThere was an article called "In this case, I do not have my educational background. People who graduated, dropped out, and people who did not go to school in the first place.

9 Tech Millionaires Under Age 30 [INFOGRAPHIC]


◆Mark · ザ ッ カ ー バ ー グ (27)


First of all, it is Mark · ザ ッ カ ー バ ー グ that the name gets up. In 2004 social network service "FacebookWe released school leaving school at Harvard University (we dropped out afterwards). Now Facebook users are growing to 800 million people.

The fund at the time of establishment of Facebook was 500 thousand dollars (about 38 million yen), but the annual revenue of 2011 is 4,27 thousand dollars (about 320 billion yen) in 2011. Zuckerberg's individual net asset is $ 17.5 billion (about 1.3 trillion yen)In 2010 it was named "Person of the Year" by TIME magazine.

◆Andrew Mason (31)


Mason, who grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, started a morning delivery service on Saturday called "Bagel Express" as a student at the age of 15. After studying music at Northwestern University and web design at a venture company, in 2008GrouponWas founded. Net asset is $ 1.3 billion (about 100 billion yen).

◆Break / loss (26)


Ross was born in 1985. At the age of ten he made a website for the first time, he became an open source Netscape by memorizing programming at the middle school and became an intern at Netscape Communications at the age of fifteen. After that, I worked at Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Firefox projectDavid HyattWe led the way. I am working as a director at Facebook now. Its net worth is $ 150 million (about 11.5 billion yen).

◆Gurbaksh Chahal (29)


Chahal was born in Punjab province of India, emigrated to the United States as parents hit the lottery for permanent residence, and grew up in San Jose, California. At the age of 16 he launched his first venture "ClickAgents" and dropped out of high school. Two years later ClickAgents was acquired for $ 40 million in value clicks (about 3 billion yen), Chahal launches the next company called BlueLithium, but here also Yahoo! It will be bought for 300 million dollars (about 23 billion yen). Chahal will be the third venture in 2009Radium OneHas been launched. The current assets of Chahal are seen as $ 100 million (about 7.7 billion yen).

◆Naveen Selvadurai (24)


Selvadurai from Tamil Nadu, India,Kings College LondonWhenWorchester Institute of Arts and Sciences (Department of Computer Science)After graduating, I worked at Lucent, Sony, Nokia, Sun Microsystems. After that, in 2009, Dennis Crawley and social network "FoursquareWe founded. The current net asset is 80 million dollars (about 6 billion yen).

◆Angelo Sotira (30)


Online art community site launched in 2000 "DeviantARTCo-founders. Born in Greece, when he was 15, he launched the music sharing service "Dimension Music" as the first company and after several years itMichael OwitzSold to. After two years under Ovitz, I worked like an internet strategy advisor and it was a deviantART foundation. The net asset is $ 75 million (about 5.8 billion yen).

◆Tim O'Shoanesy (30)


Co-founder of Living Social who is a group rival competitor as a coupon joint purchase site, the asset is $ 45 million (about 3.5 billion yen). I was a professor in marketing at Georgetown University.

◆Eddie Frederick (31)


Eddie Frederick, co-founder of living social with Tim O'Shoanesch, majored in Computer Science at the University of Maryland. The asset is $ 45 million (about 3.5 billion yen).

◆Matthew Mullenwegg (28)


It was released in 2003 and is now widely used as a blogging softwareWordPressCo-developers. The asset is $ 40 million (about 3.1 billion yen).

Even those who were successful were not able to become individuals to start a business. What I needed was "idea" "PC" "Internet environment" "time" "youthfulness" five. It does not include factors such as what kind of school is suitable here, but the photo sharing service "Flickr"And decision-making engine"Hunch"Katerina FakeAccording to, "The skills necessary for entrepreneurship, such as design and coding, are those that are generally self-taught."


Incidentally, the difference between the founding funds (above) and the current appraisal value (down) of the service they made is like this. There are immeasurable profits when creating a hit service ... ....