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They are young, dynamic and enterprising... Meet the world's 20 youngest billionaires according to the Forbes 2012 list.
1. Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 27
Net Worth: $17.5 billion
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is known for co-founding the social networking site Facebook.
Facebook was co-founded by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University in 2004.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
2. Dustin Moskovitz
Age: 27
Net Worth: $3.5 billion
Dustin Moskovitz is an American internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking website Facebook.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
3. Albert Von Thurn Und Taxis
Age: 28
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
The 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis's name first appeared in the billionaires' list when he was just eight-years-old.
After his father's demise, his mother, Princess Gloria, a popular media personality, saved his fortune until he was old enough to officially inherit it.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
Scott Duncan
Age: 29
Net Worth: $4.1 billion
Son of the late Dan Duncan, Scott Duncan is one of the youngest billionaires in the list.
After his father's death, Scott Duncan became one of the heirs of Enterprise Products Partners, a pipeline, processing and storage business.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
5. Eduardo Saverin
Age: 30
Net Worth: $2 billion
Eduardo P Saverin is a Brazilian-born American internet entrepreneur and investor.
Saverin is one of four co-founders of Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. He later parted ways with the company. However, he owns a 5 per cent stake in the company.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
6. Yang Huiyan
Age: 30
Net Worth: $4.7 billion
Yang Huiyan is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings and one of the wealthiest people in Mainland China.
Her father Yang Guoqiang started the company Biguiyuan in 1997.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
7. Fahd Hariri
Age: 31
Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Fahd Hariri is the youngest brother of Saad Hariri, Lebanese parliamentary leader. He owns a stake in family businesses in construction, banking and media sectors.
He serves on board of Beirut's Future Television Network. He runs a furniture design studio in Paris.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
8. Sean Parker
Age: 32
Net Worth: $2.1 billion
Sean Parker is an American technology businessman and entrepreneur. He co-founded Napster, Plaxo, Causes, and Airtime. He was Facebook's founding president.
In 2006, Parker became managing partner at the Founders Fund, a San Francisco based venture capital fund founded by Peter Thiel.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
9. Ayman Hariri
Age: 33
Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Ayman Hariri is the son of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri. Ayman has worked as an engineer at satellite consortium Intelsat.
He is a board member in the family-owned business, South African wireless carrier, 3C.
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10. Robert Pera
Age: 34
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Robert Pera heads Ubiquiti Networks, a multinational technology company started in 2003.
Based in Silicon Valley, they manufacture wireless products for emerging markets.
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11. Yvonne Bauer
Age: 34
Net Worth: $2 billion
Yvonne Bauer inherited a German mass-media company that started operations in 1875.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
12. Yoshikazu Tanaka
Age: 35
Net Worth: $4.3 billion
Yoshikazu Tanaka founded GREE Inc, a social networking service in December 2004.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
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13. Maxim Nogotkov
Age: 35
Net Worth: $1 billion
Maxim Nogotkov is President of Svyaznoy Group and Chairman of Svyaznoy Bank. He became General Director of the group in 2004.
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14. Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila
Age: 35
Net Worth: $9.5 billion
Alejandro Santo Domingo is a Colombian-American financier. He joined the Sab Miller in 2005, following completion of the Bavaria transaction.
He is a Managing Director at Quadrant Capital Advisors, Inc., and serves on the boards of Valorem S.A., Comunican S.A. and Caracol Television S.A.
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15. Chase Coleman
Age: 36
Net Worth: $1.1 billion
Chase Coleman is the founder and managing partner of New York based Tiger Global Management.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
Photographs: Yusaku Maezawa.
16. Yusaku Maezawa
Age: 36
Net Worth: $1.1 billion
A self-made billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa founded online retail website, Zozotown in 2004.
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17. Andrey Verevskiy
Age: 37
Net Worth: $1 billion
Founder of Kernel Holding, Andrey Verevskiy remained as chairman since September 2007. He was also the Member of the Ukrainian Parliament between 2002 and 2007.
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18. John Arnold
Age: 38
Net Worth: $3 billion
John Douglas Arnold is an American hedge fund manager, specialising in natural gas trading.
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World's 20 youngest billionaires
World's 20 youngest billionaires
20. Fang Wei
Age: 38
Net Worth: $1.1 billion
Fang Wei leads Shanghai-listed Fangda Carbon New Material, carbon products researching, manufacturing and marketing company.
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