9 tech founders who are the 'Mark Zuckerbergs' of their countries - they're rich, successful and younger than 35

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President, founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a Reuters interview at the University of Bogota January 14, 2015.

It's the stuff of entrepreneurial legend: In 2007, at just 23 years old, Mark Zuckerberg became one of the youngest billionaires in the world on the back of Facebook, a product he built in a dorm room.

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And when he rang in his 31st birthday this past May, Zuckerberg's shares of Facebook were worth over $9 billion.

Zuckerberg is definitely an outlier here, but there are plenty of young entrepreneurs around the world building successful tech companies and finding their own success.

Here are other young tech prodigies around the world everyone should know.