There are three Italians in the Forbes ranking dedicated to youngest billionaires in the world: in the top twenty-five positions we find fifteen people under the age of thirty, but among them no “self-made billionaire”, that is, one who has started a business capable of making him rich.
Who are the youngest billionaires in the world
The Italians present in the ranking of the youngest billionaires in the world are all heirs of Leonardo Del Vecchio, the founder of EssilorLuxottica. Clemente Del Vecchio occupies the second position in the ranking with a wealth of 4.7 billion dollars at the age of just 19. Same assets but a few more years on the shoulders for Luca Del Vecchio: At 22, he is the sixth youngest billionaire on the planet.
At the thirteenth position we find Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio28 years old and worth 4.7 billion dollars: in 2023 he had already been included in the ranking of the richest Italians together with another of the heirs of the Luxottica empire, Rocco Basilico.
Furthermore, all the Del Vecchios are part of the 73 Italian billionaires according to the latest ranking drawn up by Forbes with data relating to the month of March 2024. At the top of the world ranking of young “scrooges”, we find the Brazilian Livia Voigt who boasts a fortune of 1.1 billion dollars after just turning 19: he inherited a minority share of Weg, an electrical equipment company founded by his grandfather.
After Livia Voigt and Clemente Del Vecchio, we find ourselves in third place Kim Jung-youn: 20 years and a wealth of 1.4 billion euros thanks to online gaming. Fourth place for the 21 year old German Kevin David Lehmann. There is also room in the ranking for Gustav Magnar Witzoe, Norwegian model and entrepreneur. Palmer Luckey is also part of the group of over 30s: he is a 31-year-old American active in the virtual reality and defense technologies sector.
The entrepreneurs present in the top twenty-five positions are all at least 30 years old: the youngest among them is the 33-year-old Japanese Shunsaku Sagami, founder of M&A Research Institute Holdings, a company that uses artificial intelligence to find the right combinations of companies for acquisitions and mergers. Among the “self made” we also find Stanley Tang: 31 years old, he founded DoorDash together with his peer Andy Lang.
The ranking
- #1 Livia Voigt, 19 years old: 1.1 billion dollars
- #2 Clemente Del Vecchio 19 years old: 4.7 billion dollars
- #3 Kim Jung-youn 20 years old: 1.4 billion dollars
- #4 Kevin David Lehmann, 21 years old: $3.3 billion
- #5 Kim Jung-min, 22 years old: $1.4 billion
- #6 Luca Del Vecchio, 22 years old: 4.7 billion dollars
- #7 Rémi Dassault, 22 years old: 2.5 billion dollars
- #8 Zahan Mistry, 25 years old: $4.9 billion
- #9 Dora Voigt de Assis, 26 years old: 1.1 billion dollars
- #10 Firoz Mistry, 27 years old: $4.9 billion
- #11 Alexandra Andresen, 27 years old: $1.6 billion
- #12 Katharina Andresen, 28 years old: $1.7 billion
- #13 Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, 28 years old: 4.7 billion dollars
- #14 Sophie Luise Fielmann, 29 years old: 2.7 billion dollars
- #15 Gustav Magnar Witzoe, 30 years old: $4.2 billion
- #16 Stanley Tan, 31 years old: $1.2 billion
- #17 Palmer Luckey, 31 years old: $2.3 billion
- #18 Michal Strnad, 31 years old: $4.4 billion
- #19 Andy Fang, 31 years old: $1.2 billion
- #20 Ben Francis, 31 years old: $1.3 billion
- #21 Mark Mateschitz, 31 years old: $39.6 billion
- #22 Jonathan Kwok, 32 years old: $2.4 billion
- #23 Shusaku Sagami, 33 years old: 1.9 billion dollars
- #24 John Collison, 33 years old: $7.2 billion
- #25 Evan Spiegel, 33 years old: $3.1 billion
