- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the richest millennial billionaire with a net worth of $97b, followed by Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance with a worth of $35.6b and Dustin Moskovitz, CEO of work management software Asana with $17.8b.
- The United States has the most millennial billionaires, followed by China, Germany and Russia.
The technology sector has the most millennial billionaires with 28 and the combined net worth equates to an astonishing $254.5 billion.
Becoming a millennial (23–38 years old) billionaire is no easy feat and that is why only a limited number of people in the world reach billionaire status.
According to PhysicalGold.com, which analysed the latest data from Forbes revealed that finance and investment industry has the next most millennial billionaires with eight and the accumulative net worth is $24.6 billion.
The automotive, fashion and retail, healthcare and media and entertainment industries respectively have six millennial billionaires each while the construction and engineering, gambling and casinos, logistics, sports and telecommunications industries have no millennial billionaires
Overall, there are currently 78 millennial billionaires in the world and a collective net worth of $418.6 billion.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the richest millennial billionaire in the world with a sizeable net worth of $97 billion, followed by Zhang Yiming, the founder of content media platform ‘ByteDance’ with a worth of $35.6 billion and CEO of work management software ‘Asana’ Dustin Moskovitz ($17.8 billion) and founder of messaging app ‘Telegram’ Pavel Durov ($17.2 billion) are among the other millennial billionaires with a net worth of more than $15 billion.
The United States has the most millennial billionaires (33.3%), followed by China (20.5%), Germany (10.3%), Russia (5.1%), Brazil (5.1%), Hong Kong (5.1%), Denmark (3.8%), Australia (3.8%), Sweden (2.6%), Canada (2.6%), Ireland (2.6%), Norway (1.3%), United Kingdom (1.3%), India (1.3%) and Finland (1.3%).