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The billionaires who got richest quickest revealed

The world's fastest self-made billionaires
Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky – 7 years
Nathan Blecharczyk – 7 years
Vladimir Potanin – 7 years
Wang Yue – 7 years
Ricardo Salinas Pliego – 7 years
Abigail Johnson – 7 years
Yusaku Maezawa – 7 years
Sean Parker – 6.5 years
Naruatsu Baba – 6 years
Sergey Brin and Larry Page – 6 years
John and Patrick Collison – 6 years
Yoshikazu Tanaka – 6 years
Garett Camp and Travis Kalanick – 6 years
Zhang Yiming – 6 years
Jack Dorsey – 6 years
Dustin Moskovitz – 6 years
Eduardo Saverin – 6 years
Lin Qi – 5 years
Jeff Bezos – 4 years
Jan Koum and Brian Acton – 5 years
Mark Zuckerberg – 4 years
Colin Huang – 4 years
Mark Cuban – 4 years
Li Weiwei – 4 years
Jerry Yang and David Filo – 4 years
Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy – 3 years
Cheng Wei – 3 years
Pierre Omidyar – 3 years
Eric Lefkofsky – 2.5 years
Gary Winnick – 1.5 years
Jay Walker – 1 year
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The world's fastest self-made billionaires

Boasting the Midas touch, the planet's most successful entrepreneurs didn't waste any time making their money. On average it takes a person 21 years of hard work to become a billionaire according to OLGB, but these magnates got the job done in a fraction of that time. Click or scroll through the people who reached billionaire status in record time.

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lovemoney staff

03 July 2020

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