Top Young Entrepreneurs
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.
These 50 young entrepreneurs have proven that it is possible for young people to be success in online business, if you want to learn more about creating a website, you should read this guide.
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Young Entrepreneur Rich List
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PICTURE
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RANK
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NAME
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WEBSITE
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AGE
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NETWORTH
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1 | Mark Zuckerberg | 23 | $700 Million | ||||
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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.
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This is an awesome list. Thank you for sharing.
You should add me, I’m worth like $100
$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!