Blog #7: 9 emerging billionaires of technology village

a-jimynguyen (53)in #busy • 7 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos are names that are so well known in the tech world but you probably do not know the reputation of the people below.

Rishi Shah, CEO of Outcome Health (31 years old, $ 3.6 billion): Outcome Health now sells tablets and large touch screen monitors for clinics and health care centers, and designs software. to help them connect with their clients about their health and treatment. The value of Outcome Health is about $ 5.6 billion, Shah owns 80% stake in this company.

Frank Wang - CEO of DJI Technology (37, 3.2 billion dollars): Wang's company, DJI, sells drone before they become hot. According to Goldman Sachs estimates, the spending on drone from 2016 to 2020 will be about $ 100 billion. DJI makes up about 70% of the commercial and business drone market share in 2017. Wang is Asia's youngest billionaire in 2017.

Jan Koum - CEO of WhatsApp (41-year-old $ 9.7 billion): Koum and his friend Brian Acton founded WhatsApp as a status-sharing service but quickly switched to IM. In 2014, WhatsApp caught the eye of Mark Zuckerberg and returned home with Facebook in 2014 for $ 22 billion (both cash and stock). Koum earns huge amounts of money as Facebook shares rise.

Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp (45, $ 6.7 billion): Much of Acton's career is associated with Koum. After being acquired by Facebook, he stayed at the company, working with Koum but left in September 2014 and started a nonprofit organization.

Adam Neumann (38 years old, $ 2.6 billion): Neumann unveils the idea of a shared work space when running a baby clothing company. He rents an empty warehouse to set up GreenDesk, then sells GreenDesk in 2010 to set up WeWork. Today, WeWork has offices in 40 cities in the US, worth $ 21 billion.

David Zalik, CEO of GreenSky (43 yrs., $ 2 billion): More successful Israeli businessman in the US GreenSky, David Zalik's company, helps contractors, health care providers and businesses. Small businesses pay by credit card.

John and Patrick Collison - President and CEO of Stripe ($ 1.1 billion): Stripe, the Collison brothers' company now owns major clients such as Lyft, Best Buy or Google, supporting online payments. In December 2016, the company raised $ 150 million, raising the total to $ 9.2 billion, making them billionaires.

Lu Peng, CEO of Ant Financial (44, $ 1.14 billion): Peng is one of 18 Alibaba co-founders and holds a number of corporate positions, including AliPay's CEO. AliPay then changed its name to Ant Financial. Ant is currently $ 74.5 billion and Peng serves as Ant's board member.

Satoshi Nakamoto - Father of Bitcoin: Nakamoto is probably the most mysterious billionaire in the world. There are too many speculations on the identity of this character. By 2013, Nakamoto's assets are estimated at nearly $ 1 billion. With the value of this currency rising sharply in 2017, it is estimated that the property of this person has reached several tens of billions of dollars.