They Will Succeed Zuckerberg and Jobs: The 9 Newest Billionaires in Technology

You must have heard of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

So, have you heard of Patrick Collison, David Zalik or Lucy Peng?

You know that the first group are startup founders who went on to become tech billionaires. What you don't know is the second group of people who joined the tech billionaires club.

Let's take a look at the new members of the club with this list prepared based on Forbes' rich list and Bloomberg billionaires index.

The list is limited to people who made most of their wealth in the last 3 years. These 9 people from different countries and continents have companies in various technology sectors and net assets of hundreds of trillions. Here are the 9 newest tech billionaires:

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1) Rishi Shah, CEO of Outcome Health

Age: 31
Net worth: $3.6 billion
Company: Health technology company Outcome Health
Position: CEO, Founder

Shah, the son of a doctor, left Northwestern University to found Outcome Health with Shradha Agarwal, who is now the company's president. Outcome Health sells tablets and large touch-screen devices to doctors and other healthcare professionals and provides software to help them communicate with patients about their health conditions, treatments and other issues. The devices also display ads.
Value of Outcome Health in May 2017 $5.6 million was determined as . Shah owns 80% of the company.

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2) Frank Wang, CEO of DJI Technology

Age: 37
Net worth: $3.2 Billion
Company: Chinese drone manufacturer DJI Technology
Position: Founder, CEO

Wang's company, DJI Technology, has been selling drones since before they were so popular. Now, their business has grown. Goldman Sachs estimates that the total amount to be spent on robotic aircraft between 2016 and 2020 will reach $100 billion. DJI's sales accounted for about 70% of the consumer and commercial segments of the drone market last year, according to Goldman Sachs.

Wang started working for DJI from his dorm room at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2006, and his company was among the first to market a ready-to-fly drone that could actually fly. Wang has been capitalizing on the industry ever since and became Asia's youngest billionaire in 2017.

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3) Jan Koum, WhatsApp CEO

Age 41
Net worth: $9.7 billion
Company: Messaging app developer WhatsApp
Position: CEO, Co-Founder

Koum moved from Ukraine to Mountain View, California, with his mother when he was 16 and taught himself computer technology while in high school. He grew up poor, living on food stamps before working as an engineer at Yahoo. After leaving Yahoo, he spent time in South America and applied for a job at Facebook but was rejected.

Later, Kaum and his partner Brian Acton launched WhatsApp. The app started as a service that allowed users to share status updates with friends, but quickly evolved into the messaging service it is today.

In 2014, WhatsApp attracted the attention of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg and Kaum talked about the transaction for two years before Facebook offered to buy WhatsApp for $22 billion in cash and shares in 2014. As Facebook's stock value increased, so did Koum's net worth.

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4) Brian Acton, Co-Founder of WhatsApp

Age 45
Net worth: $6.7 billion
Company: WhatsApp
Position: Co-Founder (left)

Acton spent most of his career with Koum. He worked with Kaum at Yahoo, and after leaving this internet giant, he traveled to South America with Koum.
When they returned from South America, Acton applied for a job at Facebook and was rejected. He later founded WhatsApp with Kaum and continued with him at the company after Facebook bought it.

Acton has just parted ways with Koum. After leaving Facebook and WhatsApp in September, he shared on Facebook that he would launch a non-profit venture that would be “at the intersection of technology and communications.”

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5) Adam Neumann, WeWork CEO

Age 38
Net worth: $2.6 billion
Company: Collaboration space provider WeWork
Position: CEO, Co-Founder

Neumann moved to the United States from Israel in 2001 after serving as an officer in the Israeli army. She came up with the idea for today's WeWork while running her previous job, a baby clothing company in Brooklyn.
He noticed that a nearby warehouse building was vacant and convinced the owner to let him manage and rent it. This formed the basis of the GreenDesk company. Neumann and partner Miguel McKelvey sold their shares in GreenDesk in 2010 to start WeWork.

Today, WeWork has offices in 40 cities across the country. After signing a $3 billion investment in Softbank, it was recently announced that its value 21 billion dollars It was determined that .

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6) David Zalik, CEO of GreenSky

Age: 43
Net worth: $2 billion
Company: Financial technology provider GreenSky
Position: CEO, Co-Founder

Zalik, also an Israeli citizen, moved to Alabama with his family when he was four years old. He was a very smart child. He took the SAT university exam at the age of 13. Instead of going to high school, he attended Auburn University. Zalik left Auburn before graduation to start his first business, MicroTech. He sold MicroTech in 1996. After a few less successful ventures, he founded GreenSky, which allows home decorators, healthcare providers and other small businesses to pay customers on credit.

Capital One co-founder Nigel Morris made a seven-figure investment in GreenSky in 2014, the exact amount of which is unknown. That fall, venture investors, including TPG, acquired a 17% stake in GreenSky at a valuation of $1.8 billion. By 2016, Fifth Third invested in the company and GreenSky's valuation doubled.

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7) John(Stripe Chairman) and Patrick Collison(Stripe CEO)

Ages: John 27, Patrick 29
Net worth: $1.1 billion each
Company: Online payment processor Stripe
Positions: John, President and Co-Founder; Patrick, CEO and Co-Founder

The Collison brothers grew up in a small village in central Ireland and taught each other to code at a young age by competing with each other. Patrick graduated from middle school at 16 and later enrolled at MIT. A few years later, John enrolled in Harvard and went to America to join him.

They both dropped out of college in 2009 to go to Silicon Valley and start Stripe. Today, Stripe has customers like Lyft, Google, Best Buy. In November 2016, the company was valued at $150 million. $9.2 billion rose in value and made the Collison brothers billionaires.

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8) Lucy Peng, Chairman of Ant Financial

Age: 44
Net worth: $1.14 billion
Company: Mobile payment provider Ant Financial
Position: Manager

Peng was one of Alibaba's 18 founders and held numerous roles at the company, including CEO of mobile payment service AliPay. When Alibaba split with AliPay, now Ant Financial, Peng remained at its helm.

Ant's value recently $74.5 billion and Peng currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. He entered the Forbes billionaire list for the first time in March 2017.

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9) Satoshi Nakamoto, Creator of Bitcoin

Age: Unknown
Net worth: Unknown
Company: Unknown
Position: Unknown

Nakamoto is likely the pseudonym of the enigmatic creator (or creators) of Bitcoin. There have been many comments regarding Nakamoto's true identity, but none have been confirmed. In 2013, bitcoin developer Sergio Lerner estimated that Nakamoto owned almost $1 million worth of bitcoin. With the price of Bitcoin rising exponentially ever since, Nakamoto may have a fortune of millions or billions of dollars.