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| People who became billionerrs in little time |
- People who became billionerrs in little time
Eduardo Saverin
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| Edurado Saverin |
founding Facebook with Mark
Zuckerberg in 2004 to getting squeezed
out of the company a year later, was
dramatized in the movie "The Social
Network."
Despite working at Facebook for less
than a year, Saverin retained a minority
stake in the company, which translated
into more than $1 billion by 2010. Today,
Saverin is worth more than $9 billion.
Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy
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| Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy |
Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphyr founded
Snapchat in 2011 after they came with
the idea of a photo-sharing app in which
the pictures disappear.
By 2014, their sizable stock holdings put
their net worths over $1 billion, and the
20-somethings appeared on the Forbes
billionaires list one year later.
Sean Parker
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| Sean Parker |
Sean Parker may have co-founded the
pioneering music-sharing site Napster,
but it was his brief stint as president of
Facebook that earned him billionaire
status.
Parker served as Facebook's first
president for a little over a year starting
in 2004. He left the company in early
2006, but retained nearly 70 million
Facebook shares, according to
Bloomberg. He sold about 3.5 million of
them ahead of Facebook's 2012 initial
public offering, putting him firmly in
billionaire territory.
Pierre Omidyar
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| Pierre Omidyar |
Pierre Omidyar launched eBay.com in 1995 at the age of 28. The first product that this auction site sold was a broken leaser pointer.
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| The first product that this auction site sold was a broken leaser pointer. |
Three years later company went public at $18 a share. Within 3 months, stock reached the $300 mark, making Omidyar a billionaire.
Jeff Bezos
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| Jeff Bezos |
His net worth took a hit in the mid-2000s,
but has since surged to over $100 billion,
not only making him the richest person in
the world, but the richest person in
history.
Jay S. Walker
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| Jay S. Walker |
Jay S. Walker may hold the record for
fastest ascent to billionaire's status
- he joined the club in 1998, just one year
after he founded Priceline.com.
He fell off the billionaires list a year later
after Priceline got hammered during the
dot-com bust, and he left the company in
October 2000. One year later, he sold his
stock for "only" $426 million.
Mark Zuckerberg
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| Mark Zuckerberg |
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark
Zuckerberg first entered the Forbes
World Billionaire List back in 2008,
thanks to his substantial holdings in the
social media company he started four
years earlier.
Nowadays, Zuckerberg is worth more
than $60 billion.
David Filo and Jerry Yang
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| David Filo and Jerry Yang |
Yahoo in 1994. Two years later, they took
their company public, and by 1998, the
search-engine pioneers had officially
become billionaires.
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