The World’s 20 Richest Millennials
It’s easy to assume that all billionaires are people who have had decades to amass their wealth, but it turns out there are quite a few millennial billionaires among the 2,095 known billionaires. Millennials are people born between 1981 and 1996, who are currently ages 25 to 40 in 2021. Some of these folks may have only recently earned their wealth, while others may have inherited it.
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No matter how they earned it, together, these millennial billionaires are worth more than $200 billion collectively. Forbes identified 68 millennial billionaires in industries ranging from software to real estate to cryptocurrency. Here are the top 20 richest millennials who are sitting pretty on fortunes the rest of us can only dream of (but not count up to).
Last updated: March 16, 2021
Patrick Collison
Net Worth: $3.2 billion
Age: 32
Source: Payment software
Country/Territory: Ireland
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 886
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John Collison
Net Worth: $3.2 billion
Age: 30
Source: Payment software
Country/Territory: Ireland
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 886
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Gustav Magnar Witzoe
Net Worth: $3.4 billion
Age: 27
Source: Fish farming
Country/Territory: Norway
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 825
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Pavel Durov
Net Worth: $3.4 billion
Age: 36
Source: Messaging app
Country/Territory: Russia
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 808
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Franco Bittar Garcia
Net Worth: $3.6 billion
Age: 37
Source: Retailing
Country/Territory: Brazil
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 759
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Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha and Family
Net Worth: $4 billion
Age: 35
Source: Duty-free
Country/Territory: Thailand
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 679
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Su Hua
Net Worth: $4 billion
Age: 39
Source: Video streaming
Country/Territory: China
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 675
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Ben Silbermann
Net Worth: $4.3 billion
Age: 38
Source: Pinterest
Country/Territory: United States
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 623
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Scott Duncan
Net Worth: $5.3 billion
Age: 38
Source: Pipelines
Country/Territory: United States
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 478
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Daniel Ek
Net Worth: $5.4 billion
Age: 37
Source: Spotify
Country/Territory: Sweden
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 459
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Agnete Kirk Thinggaard
Net Worth: $6.9 billion
Age: 37
Source: Lego
Country/Territory: Denmark
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 334
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Ernest Garcia III
Net Worth: $7.3 billion
Age: 38
Source: Used cars
Country/Territory: United States
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 307
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Evan Spiegel
Net Worth: $9.6 billion
Age: 30
Source: Snapchat
Country/Territory: United States
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 217
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Bobby Murphy
Net Worth: $10.3 billion
Age: 32
Source: Snapchat
Country/Territory: United States
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 200
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Eduardo Saverin
Net Worth: $15.8 billion
Age: 38
Source: Facebook
Country/Territory: Brazil
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 123
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Lukas Walton
Net Worth: $17.3 billion
Age: 34
Source: Walmart
Country/Territory: United States
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 112
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Dustin Moskovitz
Net Worth: $17.5 billion
Age: 36
Source: Facebook
Country/Territory: United States
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 107
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Zhang Yiming
Net Worth: $27.7 billion
Age: 37
Source: Software
Country/Territory: China
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 50
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Yang Huiyan and Family
Net Worth: $28.9 billion
Age: 39
Source: Real Estate
Country/Territory: China
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 42
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Mark Zuckerberg
Net Worth: $104.8 billion
Age: 36
Source: Facebook
Country/Territory: United States
Forbes Billionaire Rank: 5
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Methodology: We drew from the Forbes Billionaires List, which determines the net worths of all billionaires by in the world through a combination of assets, which include private companies, real estate, art, and more. All net worths are sourced from Forbes and are accurate as of March 18, 2020. Millennials’ ages were determined by data from the Pew Research Center. Some of the youngest millennial billionaires on the list were born in the cutoff year of 1996 and turned 24 in 2020.
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