Entrepreneurs who made millions by their 30s

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by hto2008For those who didn't have the natural talent to become professional sportsmen or rock stars, "entrepreneurship" is the only way to become rich by middle age. A sure hope. There are many cases in the world of simple poofs who combined ideas, time, and the Internet into astronomical fortunes. There was an article titled "Five celebrities who became millionaires after dropping out of school", but in this case, no educational background is required. Some graduated, some dropped out, some never went to school in the first place. 9 Tech Millionaires Under Age 30 [INFOGRAPHIC]

◆Mark Zuckerberg (27)

The first name that comes to mind is Mark Zuckerberg. In 2004, he released the social network service "Facebook" and took a leave of absence (later dropped out) from Harvard University. Facebook users have now grown to 800 million. Facebook's founding capital was $ 500,000 (about 38 million yen), but the annual revenue in 2011 was $ 4.27 billion (about 320 billion yen). Zuckerberg's personal net worth is $ 17.5 billion (about 1.35 trillion yen), and in 2010 he was selected as TIME magazine's "Person of the Year". Andrew Mason (31)

Mason, who grew up outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, started a Saturday morning delivery service called Bagel Express when he was 15 years old as a student. He started Groupon in 2008 after studying music at Northwestern University and web design at a startup company. Net assets are 1.3 billion dollars (about 100 billion yen). ◆Blake Ross (26)

Ross was born in 1985. He built his first website at age 10, learned programming in middle school and started playing with open source Netscape, and became an intern at Netscape Communications at age 15. After that, he worked for the Mozilla Foundation and led the Mozilla Firefox project with David Hiatt. Now I work for Facebook as a director. Its net worth is 150 million dollars (about 11.5 billion yen). ◆Gurbaksh Chahal(29)

Chahal was born in Punjab, India, moved to the United States after his parents won the permanent residency lottery, and grew up in San Jose, California. He dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to launch his first venture, ClickAgents. Two years later, ClickAgents was acquired by Value Click for $40 million (about 3 billion yen), and Chahal launched the next company called BlueLithium, which is also Yahoo! will be acquired for $ 300 million (about 23 billion yen). Chahal launched his third venture in 2009, Radium One. Chahal's current assets are believed to be $ 100 million (about 7.7 billion yen). ◆Naveen Selvadurai(24)

A native of Tamil Nadu, India, Selvadurai graduated from King's College London and the Worcester Institute of Technology (computer science major) before working for Lucent, Sony, Nokia and Sun Microsystems. rice field. In 2009, he founded the social network Foursquare with Dennis Crowley. The current net worth is 80 million dollars (about 6 billion yen). ◆Angelo Sotira (30)

Co-founder of deviantART, an online art community site launched in 2000. Born in Greece, he launched his first company, music-sharing service Dimension Music, when he was 15, and sold it to Michael Ovitz a few years later. DeviantART was founded after two years of working as an online strategy advisor under Ovitz. The net worth is 75 million dollars (about 5.8 billion yen). Tim O'Shaughnessy (30)

Co-founder of Living Social, a rival of Groupon as a coupon joint purchase site, with assets of 45 million dollars (about 3.5 billion yen). I was a marketing major at Georgetown University. ◆Eddie Frederick (31)

Eddie Frederick, who co-founded LivingSocial with Tim O'Shaughnessy, majored in computer science at the University of Maryland. His assets are $ 45 million (about 3.5 billion yen). ◆Matthew Mullenweg (28)

Co-developer of WordPress, which was released in 2003 and is now widely used as blogging software. Its assets are 40 million dollars (about 3.1 billion yen). Even those successful people could not afford to start a business alone. Five things were necessary: ​​"idea", "PC", "Internet environment", "time", and "youth". It doesn't include elements such as what kind of school is suitable here, but according to Caterina Fake, who launched the photo sharing service "Flickr" and the decision-making engine "Hunch", "Entrepreneurship such as design and coding The skills required for

By the way, the difference between the startup capital (top) and the current valuation (bottom) of the service they created is like this. There are immeasurable profits when creating a hit service.

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