Who are the Youngest and Richest CEOs in the World?

To be CEO or chief executive officer is probably the dream of many people. Who doesn't want to be the boss of a company? Who knows you will be one of them. We also often see many successful CEOs over the age of 40. However, it turns out that many young people in the world have become CEOs and are the richest in the world.

For young CEO The company built and ran a company at the age of less than 30 years. In fact, among them there are also quite a few public figures who eventually plunged into the business world while running his career as a celebrity.

Curious who are the young and richest CEOs in the world? Here's a list of names:

Young and richest CEO in the world

When you hear the word young and richest CEO in the world, you definitely think of Mark Zuckerberg, a founder and chief executive officer from social media Facebook. Apart from Mark Zuckerberg, there are also young people who have become successful CEOs under the age of 30. 

1. Pete Cashmore

Mashable is a blog-based website that focuses on technology and entertainment, was founded by a young boy named Pete Cashmore. Mashable was founded in 2005, which meant Cashmore was 19 years old at the time.

Currently Mashable is also included in one of the blog The best in the world by Times magazine. In fact, the income from Mashable has also touched the numbers IDR 4 trillion. Cashmore's journey to build Mashable was also not always smooth, in its first year Mashable's domain was still in the form of WordPress. In fact, the creation of this blog took 20 hours. In addition, Cashmore himself filled the articles on the blog.

It wasn't until a few months later, after he was able to place ads on Mashable, that Cashmore started recruiting writers for articles related to social media. Mashable's followers on Instagram have reached 985.000 users. In 2012, Pete Cashmore was also included in the Times magazine's 100 most influential people.

2. Kylie Jenner

Who doesn't know Kylie Jenner? That is a model from the Kardashian family. In addition to being a model and actress, Kylie is also a beauty business with the company name Kylie Cosmetics.

Kylie Cosmetics was founded in 2015 and in 2018 Kylie Cosmetics has earned $360 in sales. Then, some time after that Forbes also stated that Kylie Cosmetics had a valuation of $800. This makes Kylie Jenner the youngest billionaire. During the four years that Kylie Cosmetics were founded, Kylie earned 100% of her income from Kylie Cosmetics, until 2019 Kylie sell 51% shares Kylie Cosmetics to the Coty company. 

3. Top Ittipat

The next young CEO is Top Ittipat, a young entrepreneur from Thailand. Top is CEO and founder from brand snacks, namely Tao Kae Noi which is synonymous with fried seaweed snacks. 

The beginning of Top running this business is that at first he was just a fan online game. Then, selling various item from online game which he played until it sold out. However, it turned out that the transaction was illegal until he finally opened it franchisechestnut, but his sales also continued to decline until he finally decided to produce dried food from seaweed.

Top finally succeeded in becoming a billionaire before the age of 30 years with an income of $ 600 and he was also included in the ranking of the 50 richest people in Thailand version. Forbes. The story of Top Ittipat is also included in books and films.

4. Evan Spiegel

In recent years, the Snapchat application has booming in Indonesia, maybe you are one of the users or maybe you are still using this application now. It turns out that the application, which is identical to yellow, was created by a young generation who is currently not even 30 years old, named Evan Spiegel.

Apart from being founders, he also served as CEO of the company he designed. Evan Spiegel's wealth is quoted from Forbes also reached $6,6 billion.

The four younger generations have proven that they can become one of the richest and most young CEOs in the world. Although, among them there is one public figures, that doesn't mean they didn't try to get to where they are today.