March 7, 2008

The world’s youngest billionaire

We all knew that as soon as the social networking site Facebook, got a huge infusion of cash that the founder Mark Zuckerberg was made for life. But quite where he stood in the league of the world’s richest people was not known until the publication of the Forbes magazine’s list of the World’s Billionaires.

The twenty three year old entrepreneur has for most of his life spent all of his time sitting in front of the computer screen doing a bit of social networking, which is the same as what most people of his age would be doing, however he was more productive than most of his peers and now it is paying off for him.

Forbes has him listed as the 785th richest person in the world! Which on the face of does not sound that impressive, but they have valued his fortune as being something in the region of $1.5 billion, now that does sound very impressive indeed. This makes him officially the youngest ever self made billionaire according to the magazine.

Source [Sajal Kayan]