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Meet the world’s newest billionaires

Notable new members of the most exclusive club on the planet
Yvon Chouinard, net worth: $1 billion (£802m)
Simon Nixon, net worth: $1 billion (£802m)
Torstein Hagen, net worth: $1 billion (£802m)
Saket Burman, net worth: $1 billion (£802m)
Jannie Mouton, net worth: $1 billion (£802m)
John Schnatter, net worth: $1 billion (£802m)
Edgar Sia, net worth: $1 billion (£802bn)
Marc Andreessen, net worth: $1 billion (£802m)
Yoshiko Shinohara, net worth: $1.1 billion (£882m)
Lucy Peng, net worth: $1.1 billion (£882m)
Katarina Martinson & Louise Lindh, net worth: $1.1 billion (£882m) each
Patrick & John Collison, net worth: $1.1 billion (£882m) each
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, net worth: $1.2 billion (£962m)
Kevin Systrom, net worth: $1.2 billion (£962m)
Bryan Sheffield, net worth: $1.3 billion (£1bn)
Liu Ruopeng, net worth: $1.3 billion (£1bn)
Vijay Sharma, net worth: $1.3 billion (£1bn)
Manny Stul, net worth: $1.4 billion (£1.1bn)
Sergei Gordeev, net worth: $1.5 billion (£1.2bn)
Thai Lee, net worth: $1.6 billion (£1.3bn)
Amy Goldman Fowler, Jane Goldman & Diane Kemper, net worth: $3 billion (£2.4bn) each
Juan Beckmann Vidal, net worth: $5.2 billion (£4.2bn)
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Simon Nixon, net worth: $1 billion (£802m)

The co-founder of popular British financial comparison website Moneysupermarket.com, Simon Nixon makes his debut on the Forbes list this year. The internet finance whiz, who has since moved into the luxury vacation industry, sold the last of his shares in the site last March, netting $155 million (£124m).
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30 March 2017

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