The world’s 8 richest young billionaires of 2024 – net worths, ranked: from Gen Z Ray-Ban heirs Clemente and Luca Del Vecchio to Red Bull’s Mark Mateschitz and Met Gala regular Gustav Magnar Witzøe
- For the first time in 15 years, no self-made billionaires under the age of 30 are on Forbes’ World’s Youngest Billionaires 2024 list – the ‘great wealth transfer’ to the next generation has begun
- We’re truly in the era of the nepo baby: the youngest on the list is 19-year-old Livia Voigt, who’s still in college, while 7 out of 8 of the list’s richest inherited their wealth
The world’s youngest billionaire is 19-year-old Livia Voigt, who is still in university. The Brazilian teenager is worth around US$1.1 billion as a result of her minority stake in the electrical equipment company WEG, co-founded by her late grandfather.
Meet the top eight youngest billionaires in the world, according to Forbes at the time of writing, and find out how they accumulated their vast fortunes at such a young age.
8. Gustav Magnar Witzøe, 30 – US$4.2 billion
When he was only 19 years old, Norwegian Gustav Magnar Witzøe’s father gave him nearly half the family’s fish farming company SalMar – the world’s second largest salmon farmer exporting to over 50 countries – in a move to avoid a large tax inheritance bill, according to New Zealand Herald.
7. Michal Strnad, 31 – US$4.5 billion
Michal Strnad is the owner and CEO of Czechoslovak Group, better known as CSG, which he inherited from his father in 2018, according to the CSG website. The company is one of the biggest ammunition producers in the EU, per Reuters, specialising in weapons, army trucks and vehicles and radars. Czech watchmaker PRIM also falls under its umbrella.