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- Kylie Jenner is officially the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, according to Forbes and Bloomberg’s calculations.
- Jenner follows in the footsteps of some of the most famous billionaires in the world, including Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Spiegel, who passed the $1 billion benchmark before age 30.
- Here are the 10 youngest self-made billionaires of all time.
Kylie Jenner is officially the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.
On Tuesday, Forbes and Bloomberg reported that the makeup entrepreneur and reality star had officially crossed the $1 billion milestone.
Some people were less than pleased with the designation of Jenner, whose ritzy upbringing was documented on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," as "self-made." Forbes uses the "self-made" designation as a way to distinguish between extremely rich people who inherited wealth and those whose fortune was made primarily in other ways.
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Jenner follows in the footsteps of some of the most famous billionaires in the world — people like Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Spiegel who made their first billion before reaching the age of 30. A few high profile names, such as Larry Page and Bill Gates, just missed the cut-off, achieving documented billionaire status at age 31.
Here are the select few self-made billionaires to reach $1 billion before age 30.
Sergey Brin, 30
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Brin was just days away from his 31st birthday when Google went public in 2004, with a valuation of $27 billion.
Elizabeth Holmes, 30
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Forbes estimated Holmes to be worth $4.5 billion at age 30, in 2014, due to the massive valuation of her blood testing startup, Theranos. At the time, she was the youngest woman to become a self-made billionaire — and remained so until Jenner’s recent triumph.
In 2016, Forbes dropped its estimate of Holmes’ net worth to zero, due to allegations of fraud at Theranos.
Eduardo Saverin, 28
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The Facebook cofounder had a messy break with Mark Zuckerberg, but crossed the billion dollar milestone in 2010, thanks to his 5% stake in the social network.
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Source: Business Insider – ktaylor@businessinsider.com (Kate Taylor)