The youngest millionaires in the world sold eggs and made jam, painted and squeezed butter... This review provides examples from the lives of students and schoolchildren who were not afraid to take risks, and now they are on top of the world.

Facebook

Like almost all young millionaires, a simple student from Harvard, coming from an average American family, once did not even think about billions. Mark Zuckerberg was simply interested in programming and periodically launched entertaining programs on the Internet. One of his creations was Winamp - a simple and convenient media player that analyzes the user's musical preferences.

One fine day, sitting in my room in the university dormitory, I launched a modest project - the social network Facebook. Today his creation is the most popular “social network” in the world, and among other sites for various purposes it occupies sixth place in the ranking. Thanks to Facebook, one day a simple student woke up famous, and today his fortune is estimated at several billion dollars.

Selling tickets online on Showclix

Once upon a time, Joshua Dzyabiak created his own website for selling hosting - Mediacatch. Having promoted the service, he managed to sell it for $1 million. At that time the guy was only 18 years old. The proceeds were enough for him to buy a new prestigious car and an LCD TV.

But this is just the beginning of the millionaire's story! Joshua invested part of the proceeds in his new projects, including the ShowClix service. The project helps various organizations like concert halls distribute tickets. For each purchase in the ShowClix system, the site charges a commission of a few cents. Thanks to these minimum fees, Joshua Dziabiak earns about $10 million every year.

Virtual albums from graduation

Katherine Cook, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from the USA, knows firsthand how people become millionaires without any prerequisites. One day she decided to transfer ordinary school albums to the world of virtual reality. Having convinced her older brother to trust her idea, with his help Katherine launched her own project - an interactive version of the alumni album. This was in 2005, and at that time there was not a single similar idea on the Internet.

By 2006, the brother and sister were able to attract investors to their business, and a little later, flash games and online chats appeared on the project. By 2008, major American advertisers, including Disney itself, began to be interested in the service. The number of social network users has not broken Facebook records, but Katherine doesn’t need that. Her project became the third most popular in the United States, and then MyYearbook.com was bought by the social network Quepasa. Now brother and sister Cook are millionaires. Before the age of 25, they managed to amass a fortune that is estimated at seven figures.

Superjam

14-year-old Fraser Doherty, an ordinary boy from Great Britain, was very attached to his grandmother, often helped her in the kitchen and most of all loved her signature jam. One day Fraser decided to treat his neighbors and acquaintances to his favorite delicacy.

Soon the news about the delicious jam spread throughout the area, and the boy began to receive orders for large quantities. At the age of 16, Fraser had already rented a small factory and converted it to produce jam and preserves. By the age of 19, the young man earned his first million.

The extraordinary taste of the delicacy, the guy’s simple story and his love for his grandmother and her recipes did their job. Today, Superjam brand preserves and jams are the largest supplier of such products in the UK, holding a strong position in the market.

MyDesktop

Brilliant ideas always lie in the palm of your hand or are born in the most unexpected places. All young millionaires can attest to this rule. Michael Furdyk is no exception, who once decided to launch his website right from his parents’ basement in their home in Canada. It occurred to 16-year-old Michael to publish tips on computer operation that he found in various chat rooms on the Internet.

By 1999, his MyDesktop project was generating more than $60,000 a month. Later, Michael eventually sold the site to Internet.com Corporation.

Chicken farm at 3 years old

Ryan Ross is the world's youngest millionaire. He started his business at the age of 3, selling eggs from domestic chickens raised by the boy's parents. He offered neighbors to buy a dozen eggs for $3, and the boy earned up to $60 a day.

Later, he began to take orders for mowing and watering lawns, but since he could not hold a hose or a lawn mower on his own, he paid the older guys for the work, giving them half of his proceeds. So he started earning from 5 to 100 dollars an hour, doing absolutely nothing.

Ryan Ross decided - naturally, not without the participation of his parents - to invest the accumulated money in real estate, purchasing several buildings in Canada and Colombia. Later, his list of acquisitions included basketball and hockey courts. Today, the boy’s fortune is estimated at $9,000,000, while 8-year-old Ryan still does not have a mobile phone - his mother and father do not allow it.

Fuel from plants

Daniel Gómez Iñiguez has developed a technology that makes it possible to obtain fuel from plant pomace. The guy did not have the funds to produce products, so he did what many young millionaires do - he started looking for investors. The first client simultaneously became the first investor - with half of the funds from the order, the boy implemented the press project and produced the initial batch of goods.

Within a year of its existence, the fuel production company, to which the boy gave the name Solben, attracted investments worth about $1 million. Today the company is thriving, and 20-year-old Daniel recently just managed to enroll in college.

Miss O and Miss O and Friends

Juliette Brindak began her path to success at the age of 10. It was then that the girl drew her Miss O, the heroine of future projects. Juliet was surprised to learn that Miss O was liked not only by herself, but also by her friends. Then she came up with the idea to make the heroine virtual, placing her at the center of an interactive community for girls on the Internet.

Today Miss O and Friends is one of the most popular projects for girls aged 8 years and older. The site has a lot of games for girls, profiles, chat for communication and, of course, Miss O herself. The creator of the project had barely managed to enter university at the time of success. I have to combine work on the website and study.

Beautiful profiles on MySpace

Ashley Qualls, a 14-year-old girl from America, was interested in drawing and design. During the early days of social networking, she noticed that her friends would be interested in decorating their MySpace profiles. Ashley could help the girls in no time, so she created several page designs and exhibited her work on her own website.

Soon the Yahoo service drew attention to the high level of popularity of Ashley's site. The total number of visits to her MySpace wallpaper pages exceeded one million unique users! Moreover, most of them belonged to the category of “teenage girls”. From the point of view of most advertisers, this category is the most active on the Internet, so the Whateverlife site, as Ashley called it, quickly found its partners for cooperation.

Today, the annual income from the young American woman’s project exceeds $1 million. Ashley's initial investment was $8, which she borrowed from her mother. This is how little girls become millionaires without a penny of money in their pockets!

Online sale of glasses

Wells once received a prescription according to which he had to order and buy glasses. The young man was unpleasantly surprised by the high cost of the item he needed - $300! Then he had to buy glasses made using special technology. Wells purchased them at an affordable price, and he liked the quality of the optical device so much that the guy decided to organize the sale of such glasses via the Internet.

As a result, Jamie drops out of school and invests all his funds - $2,000 - into his project. His website Glasses Direct earns $2 million within the first year after launch, and then begins to actively cooperate with advertisers, attracting investments worth up to $34 million. Impressive, isn't it?

Mushroom seller

One day, a 15-year-old teenager from the USA, Ian Purkayastha, decided to start importing a delicious product - truffles. But the young man had to face some obstacles. In Arkansas, where Ian lived, the import of delicacies was controlled by local departments, so it was necessary to do difficult work to carry out delivery in accordance with federal laws.

Ian's task was complicated by the short shelf life of truffles - only 7 days. Then the 15-year-old, who was interested in collecting mushrooms, decided to organize his own truffle nursery - the first in the United States. Today the boy is rightly called the truffle tycoon. Its products are bought by the best restaurants in New York, including those marked with a Michelin star.

What is the reason for the success of Tartufi Unlimited? Experts say that the reason lies in Ian’s age. Most of his peers think only about music, computer games and clubs. And Jan Purkayastha just sells mushrooms. At a price of $4 thousand per kilogram.

Business on your favorite songs

As practice shows, many young millionaires did not even plan to go into business. Milan Tesovic started his business with entertainment. The teenager liked to collect the lyrics of his favorite songs. Milan collected them all on one resource, which he created with his own hands.

In 2004, his hobby gradually grew into a business. The Metrolyrics website has collected more than 2 million songs, and Milan's earnings from the sale of advertising spaces are expressed in six figures. When the guy got rich, he turned 21.

Microblogs on Tumbrl

The microblogging platform Tumbrl is popular today even among major politicians; Barack Obama himself has his own account on the project. The creator of the Tumbrl platform is David Karp, who was only 19 years old at that time. Before deciding to create his own project, David changed several places of study, completed several courses, and gained work experience.

In 2006, the young man decided to give up regular office work and started working for himself. His Tumbrl project became so famous that the number of unique visits in some months exceeded 13 million users.

Creator of "Red Fox"

This story is from the series “about great geeks”, which all ambitious programmers and IT specialists look up to. Blake Aaron Ross began programming websites as a boy. He created his first creation when he was a 10-year-old child.

And it was a full-fledged and worthy Internet resource. Then the 15-year-old was invited to Netscape, where he became friends with a work colleague, Dave Hewitt. So, combining study and work, the 19-year-old guy, together with Hewitt, created the second most popular Internet browser - Mozilla Firefox.

Today Ross does not stop working on his brainchild. But the guy also has a lot of other projects. At the same time, the young talent manages to hold the post of product director at Zuckerberg’s company.

Hype Machine

As you may have noticed, almost all of the world's young millionaires mentioned above are residents of the USA or Canada. But in this corner of the Earth, in our country, there are also lucky ones. Who are they - the young millionaires of Russia?

Surprisingly, the successful guy of Russian origin, who ended up on this list, created his brilliant creation thanks to... laziness! At the age of 9, Anton Volodkin and his parents changed their place of residence from Moscow to New York. By the age of 17, the young man began working at Brainlink. According to Anton himself, the only opportunity for emotional release for him at that time was music.

But looking for new and interesting tracks was too tedious for the guy, which also took a lot of time. And Anton Volodkin became the creator of Hype Machine - a program that automated the entire process of searching for music. The technology discovered interesting tracks not only on popular blogs of musicians and labels themselves - many Internet users can do this. The guy was looking for something more original. And he achieved his goal! User interest in the project grew, as they say, by leaps and bounds.

Today the site is visited by more than a million people a month. The recent merger with SoundCloud has opened up new prospects for Hype Machine and Anton himself.

Random chat

The world's young millionaires sooner or later accepted help from investors or agreed to sell their own idea. An ordinary schoolboy from Moscow, the creator of the sensational ChatRoulette project, refused all these opportunities.

Andrey Ternovsky came up with and launched his website in just three days. His place of work was his usual computer desk in his parents’ Moscow apartment. By the end of 2009, 17-year-old Andrey showed the world his creation, and a real hunt began for the project and its creator. The guy was invited to Europe, they tried to organize meetings with him, and a real fight was launched for his website. As a result, Andrei even refused Yuri Milner. At that time, ChatRoulette was valued at $50 million. True, in his subsequent interviews the guy said that he managed to regret the refusal.

How to catch luck by the tail

Probably, many would like their fate or the fate of their children to develop in a similar way. This is quite natural: who doesn’t want well-being and prosperity for themselves or their loved ones? How can you get on the Forbes list? Young millionaires, in their own words, were not at all trying to hit the big jackpot: they started by optimizing what was working poorly, or simply doing what they loved. Some were looking for ideas, others were implementing other people's thoughts. But, if you believe the words of the creator and owner of AliBaba and China, it’s all about ambition. If you are not rich and you are over 35 years old, then you have lived your life in vain...

There is a lot to learn from these people - they earned their first millions when they barely left a young age. The success story of these young businessmen can inspire others to start their own business.

The youngest millionaires in Russia - we present to our readers a rating of the most promising businessmen in the country.

He has made an amazing career and, at 28, is one of the youngest millionaires in Russia. Fear is the founder of the retail trading company Sotmarket. At one time, according to Forbes magazine, he was one of nine young Russian entrepreneurs who founded serious companies. Sotmarket, created in 2005, was among the 20 largest online stores in Russia. The company's annual revenue in 2012 amounted to just over 4 billion rubles. In the fall of 2015, Strakh began cooperation with Tele2 - he was appointed project director for affiliate sales. At the same time, he stepped away from managing the Sotmarket company, but remained one of its main shareholders (Strakh owns 49% of the shares of the online store). The businessman expressed a desire to take on other projects. In particular, he is now working on creating a marketplace that will be related to jewelry.

The founder of the Kefir studio is among the youngest millionaires in Russia. . His fortune is estimated at $40 million. In 2009, he founded the studio for developing games for social networks “Kefir!” A small team of 5-7 people worked on the studio’s first games. Now about a hundred employees work under Pryakhin’s leadership. In total, the studio created 9 games, 3 of which became very popular: Prison, Forge of Glory and Totem Rush. Now Andrey Pryakhin has decided to fully concentrate on promoting his studio’s games on the mobile market, since it is possible to earn serious amounts of money on it. On average, the studio's monthly profit from microtransactions in games is about $700 thousand.

Among the youngest millionaires in Russia is 27-year-old. He is one of the founders of Crelligence Media, an organization for student entrepreneurs, The Kairos Society, and Virool, a video content distribution network for mobile apps and web platforms. Debelov managed to attract investments worth $6.6 million in the development of Virool. Now the Virool network has more than 30 thousand users.

One of Russia's successful young millionaires is the 30-year-old founder and CEO of Group-IB, a company engaged in the prevention and investigation of cybercrime using high technology. Group-IB is among the TOP 7 companies influencing the information security of the world. The company's annual turnover is about $36 million.

Sachkov founded the company in 2003 together with two classmates. To launch a business project, he borrowed money from his older brother and repaid the debt after the first successful order. One of the youngest millionaires in Russia continues to develop investigative techniques for new types of computer crimes and is a member of many expert committees of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe in the field of cybercrime.

Among the youngest millionaires in Russia is a 24-year-old design engineer, founder of the Promobot company and one of the developers of smart robots. A few years ago he decided to start creating robots. A month after work on the project began, a prototype of a robotic snow blower was ready. He participated in several startup competitions and attracted the attention of investors. Krivokrutsev’s team received the first money for further development of the project. Then the Intellect-Stroy company invited young engineers to create a robot promoter that could sell flowers. After a successful presentation, the company earned about 9 million rubles from the sale of robots. Promobot has received an order for the supply of 50 robots and plans to make a profit of 1.5 billion rubles.

Having become a partner of Eduard Gurinovich in creating the CarPrice service at the age of 24, he entered the list of the youngest millionaires in Russia. His fortune is estimated at 10 million dollars. CarPrice, a service for selling a car through an online auction, was successfully launched in 2014. A year later, CarPrice held 4,000 auctions per month. Now the company, which has 20 offices, employs more than 200 employees. By 2015, the company managed to attract about $42 million in investments.

In 2006, he created the online game payment service Xsolla. It supports about 700 payment systems from all over the world. 32-year-old Agapitov was among the youngest millionaires in Russia. In 2009, he and his family moved to California, where Xsolla is now headquartered. The businessman's fortune is estimated at $125 million. Agapitov's next project, Slemma, failed - it did not interest investors.

The 32-year-old, with a capital of $950 million, is among the youngest and most successful millionaires in Russia. In 2006, he invested 30 thousand dollars in the creation of the social network Vkontakte. Classmate of Pavel Durov. He manages the PetroMir holding and the Conti gambling concern, and is involved in investments in technology companies.

The founder of Mobirate, whose fortune is estimated at $42 million, is also among the youngest millionaires in Russia. An entrepreneur from Ulyanovsk has been creating mobile games for 12 years, and until 2009 his company was barely making ends meet. The parking simulation game Parking Mania brought success. It has been downloaded by more than 20 million users. To date, Mobirate has already released more than a dozen mobile hits.

Among the youngest and most promising millionaires in Russia is 32-year-old, the founder of such popular Internet products as the social network Vkontakte and the Telegram messenger. After he parted with his share of Vkontakte, Durov became closely involved in the development and promotion of Telegram. According to him, the number of messenger users has exceeded 100 thousand people. The businessman's assets are estimated at a billion dollars.

There are people who are lucky and become the happy owners of a large inheritance. And there is another category - with their labor, penny by penny they make a fortune that grows into millions. Meet the youngest millionaires on the planet!

1. Ashley Qualls ($70,000 monthly)

2004 year for 14 year old a teenager from the USA became famous. Her earnings concerned the promotion of templates on social network pages and online programming consultations. During the calculations, the Internet brought profit to the girl in the amount of $70,000 monthly.

When she turned 18, she gave herself a gift - she bought a house worth a quarter of a million dollars. Its resource is still wildly popular and brings in well-deserved millions of labor.

2. Fraser Doherty (3 quarters of a million - just the beginning)

Scottish teen 14 years old, he decided to surpass his grandmother in making jams by opening his own line for the production of these wonderful sweets. He did not have any factories; the boy brought all his recipes to life in his home kitchen.

As a result, everything worked out for him: the resulting jam was packaged in jars and successfully sold to neighbors. Profit was not long in coming.

The guy invested the proceeds in development, renting a line for the production and packaging of delicacies. By the end of the year, his fortune amounted to 3 quarters of a million, and a year later it doubled.

At the age of 15 An American young man decided to prove that he could make a living by supplying truffles. Moreover, his passion for mushroom gathering was developed since childhood.

Step by step, the guy managed to create his own nursery for growing truffles, which were sold in great demand to restaurants and grocery chains. Now everyone knows that Jan has the best products. But today he collects not only mushrooms, but also millions.

4. Jaden Smith (over $8 million)

Despite the fact that the boy grows up in a wealthy acting family, he independently made his millions.

First he starred in the film “The Karate Kid,” earning $5 million. And subsequently he began performing dances, demonstrating his rap skills, which allowed him to add another 3 million.

The guy doesn’t limit himself to just this, he launched the production of his own brand of clothing, which also increases profits.

At 13 years old An Irish teenager mastered the art of programming so much that he launched several games that broke records in popularity and price.

It all started with a hobby when, at the age of 9, he bought ordinary textbooks, thanks to which he was able to write programs in 3 languages.

The youngest developer in Europe hides the true state of affairs, but there are millions of him - a fact confirmed by experts.

Huge capital is not always the result of tireless work throughout your life. Sometimes it’s enough to be in the right place at the right time and make money on something that others simply don’t think of making money on. A living example of this top 10 young and rich. Recently, thanks to the development of computer technology, many promising newcomers have managed to catch their chance. All of them are under 35 yet.

9.10. Fahd, 30, and Ayman, 32, are worth $1.5 billion each.

7. Sean Parker - $ 1.6 billion

6. Albert von Thurn und Taxis - $2 billion

• inherited the fortune in 2001, today it is valued at 2 billion dollars.
• Lives in the family castle,
• is making plans to build the largest solar power plant in the world, choosing Bavaria in southern Germany for this purpose.

5. 34-year-old Yoshikazu Tanaka - $2.2 billion

2. Yang Huiyang - 3.1 billion

is the main shareholder of China's largest real estate company, Country Garden Holdings. She is the president of her father's company. She is 29 years old and has a net worth of $4.1 billion. Young graduated from Ohio University with a degree in marketing and logistics.

Scott Duncan's father, Dan Duncan, grew up poor and started his business with two trucks, and left it to his son capital of 3.1 billion and a pipeline empire. Scott Duncan is 28 years old and owns 49,000 miles of pipelines.

1. The youngest and richest - Mark Zuckerberg $13.5 billion,

which is 238% more than last year. He is 27 years old and has been involved in computer programming since school. At the same time, he rejected potential employers AOL and Microsoft, entered Harvard to study psychology and, together with Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz, created Facebook. In 2010, his story became the basis for the film “The Social Network,” although Zuckerberg himself had nothing to do with the project. Zuckerberg rightfully ranks first on the list of the young and rich, being also the most famous among them.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unfortunately, he is still not included in the list, but I think he will soon take his place there.

These are the young millionaires of today. Whether they were heirs to huge fortunes, or simply passionate geniuses, the young and rich, having achieved a lot, did not rest on their laurels, continuing to work and implement new projects.

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It is interesting to find out which of the world’s young millionaires came out on top in 2013, as well as to find out the names of young oligarchs in Russia and those who are considered billionaires in Ukraine.

The youngest billionaires in Russia

Thirty-three-year-old Vitaly Yusufov’s fortune is $700 million. At twenty-two he was already a candidate of economic sciences, and at twenty-four he became assistant to the general director of Gazpromexport, and at twenty-six he headed the branch of Nord Stream AG in the capital. Vitaly is the son of Igor Yusufov, who was once the Minister of Energy.

Thirty-year-old Vyacheslav Mirilashvili has a fortune of $950 million. His father is a well-known St. Petersburg businessman, who is the owner of the PetroMir holding, as well as the Conti concern. In 2006, having returned from America and borrowed thirty thousand dollars from his father, he invested it in an interesting Internet project of one of his classmates Pavel Durov. This is how the social network VKontakte appeared. It is known that in the spring of 2013, he sold forty percent of the social network.

Andrey Andreev, who is thirty-nine years old, is recognized as another young billionaire. His real name is Oganjanyants. He owes his $800 million fortune to the dating services he created, Badoo and Mamba. The billionaire lives in London.

Maxim Liksutov is thirty-six, and already has a fortune of $650 million. He started with the transshipment of Kuzbass coal, and later became a co-owner of several of the largest private carriers. Today the oligarch holds the post of deputy mayor of the capital.

Ivan Tavrin is a young billionaire with a fortune of $500 million. At first, Ivan sold television advertising in the regions, and then acquired a number of regional radio and television channels. Now he is the general director of Megafon.

The youngest billionaires in Ukraine

Yuri Kosyuk and Evgeniy Chernyak have much smaller fortunes. Kosyuk is the chairman of the board of an enterprise that produces chicken - OJSC Mironovsky Hliboproduct. Chernyak owns the Khortitsa TM and is a member of the supervisory board at Odessa Brandy Factory CJSC.

Young Millionaires 2013

Joshua Dziabiak, who is only twenty-four years old, has already become rich. And he started by selling his first hosting company at eighteen, it was called Mediacatch. He invested the proceeds in Showclix.

Jan Purkayastha began his journey to his first million at the age of fifteen. He is now nineteen. He owns the only truffle nursery in America and supplies them to restaurants and natural food stores.

Twenty-two-year-old Jason Bryan created a website that allows anyone to search for cars. The name of this site is Autocricket.com. Considering the project promising, investors invested in it and won. Now Jason is a millionaire.

A competition called “Young Millionaires – 2013” ​​was held in St. Petersburg. The jury assessed the applicants based on the annual turnover of their company; the age of the millionaires should not exceed thirty-three years. After a secret vote, the winner was announced. Roman Kondratyev, who is the owner of the Drilling Technologies Plant company, was recognized as such. But the youngest millionaire to participate in the competition was eighteen-year-old Andrei Pavlov. Forbes considers young rich people whose age is less than forty years. In 2013, forty people around the world were recognized as the richest millionaires, and eleven of them were Americans. One Russian was included in the list of the richest young people in the world in 2013 - Maxim Nogotkov.

Thirty-one-year-old Yang Huiyan's fortune is $5.7 billion. Her father, who is the founder of Country Garden Holdings, gave his shares to his daughter, and now she is the richest woman in China. At thirty-six, Alejandro Santo Domingo Dávila heads, succeeding his father, the Santo Domingo Group and owns a fortune of $11.7 billion.

The youngest oligarch in the world

When Mark was twenty, he launched The Facebook, which was originally intended for communication between Harvard students. The program quickly gained popularity, and in the spring of that year it already included many colleges. In the fall, the number of users was already more than a million people, and in 2005 their number grew to five million.

In 2007, Microsoft acquired part of the shares. In 2012, the oligarch’s fortune was estimated at about nineteen billion.

Well, the richest people in Russia are not young at all. For example, Viktor Vekselberg now has income from oil and owns foreign concerns.
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