Meet 9 of tech's newest billionaires
You've almost certainly heard of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk.
But have you heard of Patrick Collison, David Zalik, or Lucy Peng?
As I'm sure you know, the first group of men were startup founders who went on to become tech billionaires. What you may not know is the second group of people have also joined the tech billionaires club.
We're taking a look at some of that club's new members. To compile this list, we pulled from Forbes wealth rankings and the Bloomberg Billionaires index. To narrow it down, we limited it to people who have made the bulk of their wealth in the past three years.
Combined, these nine men and women have a net worth in the trillions of dollars, come from different countries and continents, and have companies in a range of tech industry sectors. Here are nine of the newest tech billionaires:
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