The official Retire at 21 Young Rich List, you can see the top earning websites in the world run by young entrepreneurs as young as 17.
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Young Entrepreneur Rich List
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1 | Mark Zuckerberg | 26 | $13.5 Billion | ||||
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2 | Andrew Gower | Runescape | 28 | $650 Million | |||
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3 | Chad Hurley | Youtube | 30 | $300 Million | |||
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4 | Blake Ross and David Hyatt | Mozilla | 22 | $120 Million | |||
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5 | Andrew Michael | Fast Hosts | 29 | $110 Million | |||
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6 | Angelo Sotira | Deviant ART | 26 | $75 Million | |||
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7 | John Vechey | PopCap Games | 28 | $60 Million | |||
| 8 | Alexander Levin | Image Shack | 23 | $56 Million | ||||
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9 | Jake Nickell | Threadless | 28 | $50 Million | |||
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10 | Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith | Tagged | 28 | $45 Million | |||
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11 | Sean Belnick | Biz Chair | 20 | $42 Million | |||
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12 | Matt Mullenweg | WordPress | 23 | $40 Million | |||
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13 | Kevin Rose | Digg | 30 | $31 Million | |||
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14 | Aodhan Cullen | Stat Counter | 24 | $25 Million | |||
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15 | Markus Frind | Plenty Of Fish | 29 | $23 Million | |||
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16 | Robert Small | MiniClips | 24 | $23 Million | |||
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17 | Ryan Block | Engadget | 25 | $20 Million | |||
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18 | Matt Mickiewicz | Sitepoint | 24 | $18 Million | |||
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19 | Tom Fulp | Newgrounds | 29 | $15 Million | |||
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20 | Rishi Kacker and Matt Pauker | Voltage | 24 | $12 Million | |||
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21 | Catherine and David Cook | My Year Book | 17&19 | $10 Million | |||
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22 | Fredrik Neij | The Pirate Bay | 28 | $10 Million | |||
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23 | DAVID LEVICH | Iced Out Gear | 25 | $10 Million | |||
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24 | Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons | Yelp | 30 & 29 | $10 Million | |||
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25 | David Hauser & Siamak Taghaddos | GotvMail | 24 | $8 Million | |||
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26 | Rand Fishkin | SEOmoz | 29 | $6.5 Million | |||
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27 | Jermaine Griggs | Hear and Play | 23 | $5 Million | |||
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28 | Jay Westerdal | Domain Tools | 29 | $5 Million | |||
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29 | Ashley Qualls | What Ever Life | 17 | $4 Million | |||
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30 | Ben Way | Rain Makers | 27 | $4 Million | |||
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31 | Pete Cashmore | Mashable | 30 | $3.8 Million | |||
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32 | Seth Sternberg, Sandy Jen, and Elaine Wherry | Meebo | 30,29 and 27 | $3.5 Million | |||
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33 | Cameron Johnson | Millionaires Secrets | 22 | $3.2 Million | |||
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34 | Rob Benwell | Blogging to the Bank | 23 | $3 Million | |||
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35 | Alex Tew | Million Dollar Homepage | 22 | $3 Million | |||
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36 | Mario Lavandeira | Perez Hilton | 29 | $3 Million | |||
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37 | Lauris Liberts | Frype | 25 | $2 Million | |||
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38 | Neil Patel | ACS | 22 | $1.8 Million | |||
| 39 | Zhang Rui | Mosh | 28 | $1.1 Million | ||||
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40 | Matt Wegrzyn | Bodis | 19 | $1 Million | |||
Related Top Young Entrepreneur List:
Top Young Entrepreneurs – aged under 25
(Nov 2009)
Special Notes:
1) This Top List was first published January 2008 – and was quoted on many publications around the world resulting in numerous interviews for Michael Dunlop. You can find details of one of these interviews at: Michael Is Interviewed by a Major Newspaper in Brazil
2) In April 2010 we converted RetireAt21.com over to WORDPRESS. This now allows visitors to comment and make suggestions using the comment feature below.
This is an awesome list. Thank you for sharing.
You should add me, I’m worth like $100
Wow
$700 Million. That’s Tiger Woods style (well, pre-affairs).
Great list but one guy I think you forgot that should be on there is Gurbaksh Chahal. He sold his website for like 300 million to Yahoo and wrote a great book as well.
When was this list last updated?
Fantastic and mind blowing information that every body likes to read and may be in future when you make a list of above thiry years then i may be the one if God wills.
why it’s all guys? where’s the girls? E.g. Michelle Dewberry
My concern is the criteria used to determine the value and whether the focus is only on Americans, I am an African based in the Republic of South Africa. Can anyone of the young millionaires sponsor my website?
Why there is no name of Gurbaksh chahal in the list of young enterpreurs when he sold his site to yahoo for $ 340 million .
Nice list here Michael, but it looks like it needs updating. I love the look of your site here and at incomediary.com. Well done real good.
These List is very good. I knew only Marc Zuckerberg and Perez Hilton before. The One Million Dollar Page is very amazing, how easy you can make money.
My concern is the criteria used to determine the value and whether the focus is only on Americans, I am an African based in the Republic of South Africa. Can anyone of the young millionaires sponsor my website?
Amazing guys! very inspiring! rigth now I’m studying how to be an internet entrepreneur and I hope someday I’m one of theme! thx for the post.
Excellent! Great People with great contribution to the society, and good role model and inspiration for the present and future generation. I really wish that I have the brain and passion like you guys. Well done.
Man, thats a great list! I can only image!
why isn’t Eric Bauman on this list? He sold his site (ebaumsworld.com) for 10 million and made tons of profit off of it before he sold it.
Actually i was a little off, he actually sold ebaumsworld for 15 million with 2.5 million in stocks and has made over 52.5 million in cash and stock over 3 years…There is no reason why he shouldn’t be on this list since he is young.
Wow that is some serious amounts of money that they have made.
But with any Internet business they are started with the same thing.
NOTHING yes thats right to build a home based business you have to build it from the ground upwards.
well done
What an inspirational bunch of young entrepreneurs! Rock on!!
Garrett
That is an inspiring list. I am just getting online and I have a lot to learn from these younger entrepreneurs.
Cheryl
Zach Rosenberg owns his own store which includes the store and the online webstore as well. Oh ya he’s only 13!!! He should be on this list!
Wow I hope one day to be on this list thanks for the inspiration.
hmm 700 million perhaps I could get a job counting it.
Nice article .. great inspiration.
cheers
Josh
I shall be on this list within 5-7 months.
need big effort to be on the list.
great list, michael.
If I start to write why i started blogging?…I’ll definitely include this post in my blog…not becoz of becoming rich..something to do with online..such a nice inspiration !
It is awesome to see the creative power of fellow humans, I love the entrepreneurial spirit that exists in this community. Cheers to all!
I have to learn something from everyone of these experienced people.
WOW the fonder of facebook is worth 700 million and he is just 23.
props on that
It’s rowdy to see these young ninjas doing creative things and making big bucks. Hard work and dedication to be on this list. Nice!
Hey man I really like your site its baddass dude. Keep up the good work.
Hey,
I really like your work!
Keep it up.
Would you mind if I mention your blog on my new website? More specifically, this page to start?
Thanks and good job!
Alain
I am marveled and impressed with the strides
these young men have shown with such skill, entrepreneurship and dexterity.
But at such prime ages, I want to know whether they have the capacity, tenacity and durability to sustain their successes and last long?
I hope they have the answers. More grease to your elbows. Kudos for mega achievement.
its awesome…im really impressed with it
Great list Michael. I bet everyone of us who commented here will love to be in that list.
Wow, Perez Hilton no longer looks like that photo, and he is even more successful than before.
What astonishes me most is that many of these websites are free to use. That alone should be a big enough reason to build a website(s) that offer a free service and then charge advertisers.
Waooh! this is really amazing. it’s just what i need today to lift my spirit up as i’m online.
i want to appreciate the admin, for this great information…
Facebook is becoming storm of the net…
my own invention is on the way..
im need a entrepeneurs person for start on e bussiness (sales a websites design)
please write to jmeyers@latinamerica-net.com
Is this list contains only western entertainers.What about Asian?
this list isn’t up 2 date mark z is 26 ad worth over 13 BILLION
I’m looking for a way to make http://www.wetinhappen.com better. ideas? Anyone?
Below 25 or 30 !!!!!! Its a great list. They are really efficient to drive their business.I think they made a new era of that business. I wish them……Go ahead for long run.
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When was this list last updated?
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Hey this article is very inspiring. I would like to be in the list one day. So in anyways i would like to thank those who are in the list for motivating me. thank u who wrote it.!
well gives me hope at 28 lol
“I have idea, but the only thing i don’t have is finance” is the common line i hear every time i talk to my friends about something which can make us rich quickly!
I think even these big entrepreneurs must have been came across this circumstance in their early days…
May be I am the Next !!!!
Thanks for Sharing.
Really nice Blog!
Mark Zeckerburg is a multi-billionaire. His website is worth 25 billion dollars. Him himself has about 7-13 billion dollars. Please fix that.
I hope to join this list..whoo hoo
Amazing people!
Very Nice List!!! I should be on the list as well for my website I just started recently! I made $53.18 this month alone from it! WHAT’S UP?!?!?!?!?
Now you know these guys are young $$$$ millionaires but, what you don,t know is that am the next internet Millionaire, hahahaha!!!!!!
What about Eduardo Saverin? He was the Co-Founder of Facebook and is worth about 2/3 billion dollars.
This is pretty awesome to see so many successful people killin it online. Very inspiring!
These people are my motivation! Although there are a lot more individuals who should be on the list. David Miles Jr. And Kato Leonard made $100,000 a month from their year old site freeweblayouts.net in 2005 which gives away free myspace templates. I’m also a web entrepreneur myself. I hope to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. Checkout my new social networking site http://myswag.ucoz.com and give me your opinions!
I’m suprised to see that most of these hot shot webmasters are men. Not even 25% a ladies.
What an impressive list of successful young men.
No surprise, all of them has ventured into internet based business. Internet has the power which younger people realized before the older counterparts.
signing in down here to start the jealous list. i’ll take number 31. thank you.