Meet the 10 youngest billionaires in the US: from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to Walmart heir Lukas Walton and Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk – and they’re all under 40

Oct 11 , 2021

Can you guess which companies America’s 10 youngest billionaires work for? Photos: @SlicWillie/Twitter; coinbase.com; @JoePompliano/Twitter; AFP

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is America’s wealthiest person under 40 with US$134.5 billion in the bank, while Sam Bankman-Fried is the youngest at just 27 with US$22.5 billion

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Mark Zuckerberg may be having a hard time at the moment due to the recent Facebook outage and whistle-blower scandal, but he’s still the US’ richest person under the age of 40. So who else is hot on his heels? Forbes has just published its list of the youngest billionaires in the country, so read on to find out who made the cut, in order of oldest to youngest.

10. Nathan Blecharczyk, Airbnb co-founder

Airbnb may have had a tough time during the pandemic, but co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk is still worth a cool US$10 billion. Photo: @urtrading/Twitter

Age: 38

Net worth: US$10 billion

Industry: Tech, hospitality

Alongside Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk is one of the co-founders of the wildly successful hospitality company Airbnb. He currently serves as chief strategy officer, and helped lead the company through a massive business downturn during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

9. Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase

Brian Armstrong, co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, has made a fortune from the boom in cryptocurrency. Photo: Bay Area News Group/TNS