Meet 9 emerging billionaires of the current technology village

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Perhaps you are too familiar with longtime tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
right? But not all of us also know names like Patrick Collison, David Zalik or Lucy Peng?

These are the boys who founded the company and have just stepped into the threshold of technology village billionaires.
Not taking into account the top rankings of Forbes and Bloomberg Billionaires index, Bussiness Insider page has just published the records of the latest 9 behemoth billionaires, owning billions of dollars worth of assets, from many other countries each other and from high-tech industrial companies.

Invite you to meet 9 emerging billionaires of the current technology village!

1. Rishi Shah, Outcome Health's CEO

Photo source: Outcome Health Facebook

1. Age : 31
2. Net value : 3.6 billion USD
3. Company : Outcome Healthy Medical Technology Company
4. Position : CEO, founder

As the son of a doctor, Rishi Shah dropped out of school after attending Northwestern University to start a business with Outcome Health with Shradha Agarwal - currently the company's president.

Outcome Health is a company that sells tablets and touch-screen devices for doctors' offices, as well as other health care providers.

The software designed by Outcome Health helps doctors communicate with patients through health conditions, treatment conditions and other issues. In addition, these devices may also display health-related ads.

In May 2017, Outcome Health's value amounted to 5.6 billion and Rishi Shah owned 80% of that stake.

2. Frank Wang, CEO of DJI Technology

Photo source: YouTube / Forbes

1. Age : 37
2. Net value : 3.2 billion USD
3. Company : Production of Chinese DJI Technology unmanned aircraft equipment
4. Position : Founder, CEO

Frank Wang's DJI Technology was one of the first companies to start selling unmanned aircraft equipment ( called drones ) before they became popular today. Of course, now DJI Technology has started to " grow ".

In the period from 2016 to 2020, the total amount that DJI Technology company will spend on these robot aircraft is $ 100 billion, according to estimates by national investment bank Goldman Sachs.

According to Goldman Sachs , DJI Technology's revenue accounts for about 70% of the total consumer and commercial market share of the unmanned aircraft market last year.

CEO Frank Wang took the first steps in the Drones field in 2006, when he started to build the first helicopter in his dorm room at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. . It is also the foundation for him to launch the first company to produce its own self-flying devices and become the youngest technology billionaire in Asia in 2017.

3. Jan Koum, CEO of WhatsApp

Photo source: Facebook.com/jan.koum

1. Age : 41
2. Net value : 9.7 billion USD
3. Company : Developers for WhatsApp messaging application
4. Position : CEO, co-founder

Jan Koum moved from Ukraine to live in Mountain View, California with her mother when she was 16 and self-taught computer technology while in high school. Jan Koum was born into a poor family and worked as an engineer at Yahoo. After quitting here, Koum spent a lot of time in South America while continuing to apply for a job at Facebook but was refused.

Before becoming the current messaging application, Koum and co-founder Brian Acton created WhatsApp as a utility that allows users to update their information and status with friends.

In 2014, WhatsApp attracted attention from Facebook CEO. Koum and Zuckerberg had two years of talks before Facebook offered WhatsApp in 2014 for $ 22 billion in cash and stock. As Facebook's stock value increases, Koum's asset value also increases.

4. Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp

Photo source: Reuters

1. Age : 45
2. Net value : 6.7 billion USD
3. Company : WhatsApp
4. Position : Co-founder

Much of Brian Acton 's career is tied to Koum. Brian Acton used to be Koum's colleague at Yahoo. They even stayed together for a year in South America after leaving the Internet giant at that time.

Returning from South America, Brian Acton was also denied a job offer at Facebook. Like predestined hearts, they formed WhatsApp together and joined Koum until Facebook bought it.

But then Acton left Facebook and WhatsApp in September to start working at a non-profit organization related to communication and information, this news was posted on his Facebook.

5. Adam Neumann, WeWork CEO

Photo source: Adam Neumann

1. Age : 38
2. Net value : 2.6 billion USD
3. Company : Coworking WeWork - an office provider for business people
4. Position : CEO, co-founder

Adam Neumann moved from Israel to the United States to live in 2001 after serving as an officer in the Israeli army. Neumann had the idea of ​​creating WeWork while trading in the children's clothing company in Brooklyn.

Neumann observed an empty warehouse near the workplace and persuaded its owner to rent the space again. This is the first foundation named GreenDesk including Neumann and other colleagues. In 2010, Neumann and co-founder Miguel McKelvey sold their shares in GreenDesk to create WeWork.

Currently, WeWork has offices in 40 cities across the United States. Recently, the company received a grant of $ 21 billion after a $ 3 billion investment from Softbank multinational telecommunications group.

6. David Zalik, CEO of GreenSky

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1. Age : 43
2. Net value : 2 billion USD
3. Company : GreenSky financial technology provider
4. Position : CEO, co-founder

David Zalik is a native Israeli who moved to live with his family in Alabama, USA when he was 4 years old. David Zalik was called a prodigy when he could take the SAT at the age of 13, skipping high school and going straight to Auburn University.

However, David Zalik dropped out of school to pursue his first business, with MicroTech - a computer assembly company.

In 1996, David Zalik sold MicroTech startup, after a few unsuccessful projects, he just started establishing GreenSky , a company that helps contractors improve their homes, provide medical services and businesses. Other small businesses, allowing customers to pay for services in the form of credit.

Nigel Morris - co-founder of Capital One card loan service, invested an unspecified 7-digit amount into GreenSky in 2014. Venture investors, including TPG , bought The 17% stake in GreenSky is worth $ 1.8 billion. Until 2016, when Fifth Third invested in the company, GreenSky's valuation doubled.

7. Brothers John and Patrick Collison, Chairman and CEO of Stripe

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1. Age: John 27 years old and 29-year-old Patrick
2. Net value : 1.1 billion USD per person
3. Company : Striple online payment service
4. Position : John - Chairman and co-founder; Patrick - CEO and co-founder

The two Collison brothers grew up in a small village in central Ireland, learning their own code and competing with each other.Patrick graduated from high school at the age of 16 and then attended MIT Institute of Technology. And John , two years later, came to the United States and enrolled at Harvard University. But both dropped out of school in 2009 to go to Silicon Valley, starting the path to create Stripe.

Currently, Stripe has 3 main customers, Lyft , Best Buy and Google . In November 2016, the payment gateway Stripe raised $ 150 million into the system with a value of $ 9.2 billion and continues to enrich the Collison billionaires.

8. Lucy Peng, Executive Chairman of Ant Financial

Photo source: Alibaba

1. Age : 44
2. Net value : 1.14 billion USD
3. Company : Ant Financial mobile payment service provider
4. Position : Executive Chairman

Lucy Peng is considered a powerful woman as one of the 18 people in Alibaba's executive apparatus and holds many positions in other companies, including AliPay's CEO and mobile payment service of meWhen Alibaba separated AliPay, eventually became Ant Financial, Lucy Peng was still the head.

Ant's value has recently reached $ 74.5 billion, while bringing Peng into breaking Forbes's billionaires list in March 2017.

9. Satoshi Nakamoto - Bitcoin creator

1. Age : Unknown
2. Net value : Unknown
3. Company : Unknown
4. Position : Unknown

Satoshi Nakamoto may be the pseudonym of the mysterious founder ( or creator ) of Bitcoin. There was a lot of speculation about Nakamoto's incarnation, but there was no confirmation.

However, there has not been any specific information about the most mysterious person who has created a fever electronic Bitcoin currency in the world market. In 2013, bitcoin developer Sergio Lerner estimated that Nakamoto owned nearly 1 million bitcoin.

With Bitcoin prices rising exponentially since then until now, Nakamoto may have owned a fortune worth millions or billions of dollars.

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