Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and CEO of the Uber ordering taxi internet service, tops the list. This startup managed to attract about $4 billion of investments. Experts estimate Uber Technologies at $41.2 billion. The personal condition of the 38-year-old Kalanick today is $5.3 billion.
The founder of the KakaoTalk free instant messenger Kim Beom-soo managed to earn about $3 billion. In 2014, his KakaoTalk startup bought the Internet company Daum Communication. The new venture was named Daum Kakao, and at that time its stock market price reached $9.5 billion. Today, the company's share price fell slightly, but Kim Beom-soo's personal fortune amounted to several billion.
The third place was occupied by 57-year-old Douglas Leone, the managing partner of the well-known Sequoia Capital firm. The personal fortune of a businessman today is estimated at $2.2 billion.
Brian Chesky (in the photo) and his teammates Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia rank fourth in the Forbes list. Friends are the founders of the popular Airbnb start-up, a service that works in the field of housing rental around the world. The state of each of the young people (they are a little over thirty) is estimated at $1.9 billion.
A business duo of Evan Spiegel (in the photo on the right) and Bobby Murphy took the fifth place of the new IT-billionaires rating according to Forbes. In 2011 friends created a mobile messenger called Snapchat. Two years later, representatives of Facebook suggested businessmen sell the startup for $3 billion, but the young people refused. In February 2015, the messenger received an investment of $19 billion. Forbes experts report that Spiegel and Murphy each have at least 15% of the Snapchat shares.
Markus Persson, a 35-year-old creator of Minecraft, holds the sixth place of this rating. The game, created by Persson, is today one of the most downloaded. After enrichment, the businessman managed to purchase the most expensive house ever sold in Beverly Hills. His personal state is $1.3 billion.
Alexander Karp, a 47-year-old founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, whose value is $15 billion, is the last in the list. The personal condition of the businessman is estimated at $1.2 billion. The billionaire company cooperates with the world's largest financial organizations, holdings and government agencies.
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