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Young and filthy rich
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Young and Filthy Rich: The 10 Wealthiest People Under 40
by Steve Minter, Mar 04, 2015
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Young and Filthy Rich: The 10 Wealthiest People Under 40
http://www.industryweek.com/companies-executives/young-and-filthy-rich-10-wealthiest-people-under-40/gallery
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1. Mark Zuckerberg
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One of the most recognizable members of his generation, the 30-year-old programming whiz founded Facebook in 2004 and is worth $35.1 billion. Along with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, he has pledged to give half his wealth to charity. (David Ramos/Getty Images)
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2. Dustin Moskovitz
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The youngest member of this rarified list, Moskovitz, 30, dropped out of Harvard with his roommate Mark Zuckerberg to move to Palo Alto in 2004 and build their social media startup, Facebook. Thanks to being Facebook's third employee (he left in 2008), he is worth $7.7 billion. (Araya Diaz/Getty Images)
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3. Jan Koum
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Jan Koum became a billionaire when he sold WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application, to Facebook for $19 billion. Koum, 38, is worth $7.7 billion. (David Ramos/Getty Images)
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4. Scott Duncan
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Duncan, 32, owes his net worth of $5.5 billion to the fortune he inherited from his father, Dan Duncan, who founded pipeline firm Enterprise Products Partners. Its operations include 51,000 miles of natural gas, NGL crude oil, refined products and petrochemical pipelines, and controls $43 billion in assets.
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5. Sean Parker
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Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster, was the first president of Facebook (played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network). At 35, he is worth $5.2 billion. (Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
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6. Yang Huiyan
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A 2003 graduate of Ohio State University, Yang, 34, is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings, a property development company in China founded by her father. She is Asia's richest woman with a fortune estimated at $5.1 billion, according to Wealth-X.
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7. Alejandro Santo Domingo Dávila
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Educated at Harvard, Dávila is one of the heirs to Columbia's Bavaria brewery, which was sold to SABMiller for a 15% stake in the company. That holding is part of the family's Santo Domingo Group. In addition to serving on various boards, he is a Managing Director at Quadrant Capital Advisors, Inc., and a member of the board of trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The 38-year-old is worth an estimated $4.9 billion. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
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8. Elizabeth Holmes
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As a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, Holmes founded Theranos, a biotech firm that offers technology for performing lab tests on blood and other samples of just a few drops. Today, the Palo Alto-based company is worth more than $9 billion and its 31-year-old founder is worth $4.5 billion. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images)
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9. Eduardo Saverin
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Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saverin emigrated with his wealthy family to Miami in 1993 and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, where he met Mark Zuckerberg and co-founded Facebook. In 2009, Saverin moved to Singapore and subsequently renounced his U.S. citizenship, allegedly to shield himself from U.S. capital gains taxes after the Facebook IPO. At 32, he is worth an estimated $4.4 billion. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
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10. Arun Pudur
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Arun Pudur, 38, was born in India. He is the CEO of Malaysia-based software firm Celframe Technology Group, which Pudur said had the goal of becoming 'The World’s No.1 Company, which will remain profitable for the next 100 Years.' Pudur is worth $4.0 billion, according to Wealth-X. (Photo: Celframe)
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