Bloomberg announced Thursday the winners of the 2010 America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs, a competition among startups founded by entrepreneurs under 25. Also on Thursday, Kiip.me (pronounced “keep,” as in “wii”) announced the closing of a $300K round of financing, making Kiip.me founder Brian Wong, age 19, the youngest entrepreneur to receive venture investment. The tech world is powered by young adopters, so who are the hot up-and-coming (and already here) young entrepreneurs?
Mark Zuckerberg, 26
I know it’s obvious—but it has to be said. In 2008, at the age of 23, Mark Zuckerberg topped Forbes’ list as the youngest self-made billionaire in the world four years after creating Facebook.com. To be clear, he isn’t actually the youngest billionaire in the world. That title goes to his former roommate and Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz. But in terms of numbers, Zuckerberg beats out the competition. Worth $6.9 billion, Zuckerberg is now worth more than Steve Jobs. What does he do with all his oodles of cash? Nothing. He rents a house in Palo Alto, California and recently donated $100 million to public schools in Newark, NJ.
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Author: Faith Merino
