At 26, John Collison, Stripe’s president, is now the world’s youngest self-made billionaire — two months younger than Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel, who is also 26. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, 28, and Snapchat cofounder Bobby Murphy, 28, are the only other self-made billionaires in the world under age 30. The world’s youngest billionaire is Norwegian Alexandra Andresen, 20, who inherited a 42% stake in family-owned investment company Ferd with her billionaire sister Katharina Andresen, 21. The Collison brothers join six other Irish billionaires on FORBES’ World Billionaire List and are now Ireland’s youngest billionaires, though they live and work in San Francisco. “Heartening as the success to date has been, we are so early in accomplishing the goals that we set out for ourselves,” Patrick Collison told FORBES in January 2016.

Source: Forbes November 28, 2016 20:24 UTC