Under 30 And On The FOrbes 400

WHen THe forbes 400 lisT of THe ricHesT americans Was firsT publisHed in 1982, iT feaTured a 27-yearold sTeve Jobs. since THen, only eigHT oTHer selfmade people Have made our lisT of ricHesT americans before Turning 30—someTHing even bill gaTes, WHo made our 1986 forbes 400 afTer His 30TH birTHday, Was unable To do.

sTeve JObs, 27

Class of 1982

The reed college dropout cofounded apple and launched its ipo in 1980. Jobs made it onto the inaugural forbes 400 list in 1982 with a net worth of $100 million. His widow, laurene powell Jobs, is worth $20.6 billion today.

MichAel dell, 26

Class of 1991

The kid from Houston who ultimately turned computers into commodities landed on The forbes 400 with a net worth of $300 million. current net worth: $26.7 billion.

JOseph lieMAndT, 28

Class of 1996 in 1996, Joe liemandt stared back at us from the cover of Forbes— twice—first, at age 27, when his Trilogy software was featured and then a few months later for The forbes 400. His 2018 net worth: $3 billion.

Jerry yAng, 29

Class of 1998 yahoo was the internet’s most widely used search engine in 1998, and that put its cofounder Jerry yang on our list with a net worth of $830 million. current net worth: $2.4 billion.

MArk ZUckerberg, 24

Class of 2008 facebook’s founder was the youngest self-made person to ever appear on The forbes 400 with a net worth of $1.5 billion. a decade later it has grown to $56.1 billion.

dUsTin MOskOviTZ, 26

Class of 2010 eight days younger than his facebook cofounder and former Harvard roommate mark Zuckerberg, moskovitz took two extra years to get on The forbes 400, with a net worth of $1.4 billion. His current net worth: $10 billion.

edUArdO sAverin, 28

Class of 2010

The facebook cofounder famously had to fight mark Zuckerberg to hang on to a piece of the company. by 2010 his facebook ownership was worth $1.15 billion. current net worth: $8.8 billion.

evAn spiegel, 25

Class of 2015 spiegel first appeared on The forbes 400 four years after he cofounded snapchat while at stanford university. His net worth was $2.1 billion, which is higher than today’s $1.6 billion.

bObby MUrphy, 27

Class of 2015 like his stanford pal and snapchat cofounder evan spiegel, murphy made The forbes 400 in 2015, with a net worth of $1.8 billion. snapchat’s shares have fallen, and so has his worth, to $1.6 billion.