The youngest billionaires in tech

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18. Nick Woodman

18. Nick Woodman

Age: 39

Net worth: $2.5 billion

Nick Woodman is the founder and CEO of sports-camera company GoPro. With an estimated compensation of $284.5 million, he was the highest-paid U.S. CEO of 2014.

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17. Jan Koum

17. Jan Koum

Age: 39

Net worth: $6.8 billion

Jan Koum is the cofounder and CEO of WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for $19 billion in February 2014.

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16. Yoshikazu Tanaka

16. Yoshikazu Tanaka

Age: 38

Net worth: $1.14 billion

Yoshikazu Tanaka is the founder and CEO of Gree, a Japanese gaming and social networking company.

15. Jack Dorsey

15. Jack Dorsey

Age: 38

Net worth: $2.5 billion

Jack Dorsey is a cofounder of Twitter and still owns a 4% stake in the company. He went on to found Square, a mobile payments company.

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14. Travis Kalanick

14. Travis Kalanick

Age: 38

Net worth: $5.3 billion

Travis Kalanick is the cofounder and CEO of Uber. The ridesharing app has been valued at as much as $41 billion, and he's been a billionaire on paper since June 2014.

13. Naruatsu Baba

13. Naruatsu Baba

Age: 37

Net worth: $1.64 billion

Naruatsu Baba is the founder and CEO of Japanese smartphone game maker Colopl.

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12. Robert Pera

12. Robert Pera

Age: 37

Net worth: $1.8 billion

Robert Pera founded wireless product maker Ubiquiti Networks. The company's 2011 IPO made him a billionaire.

11. Garrett Camp

11. Garrett Camp

Age: 36

Net worth: $5.3 billion

Garret Camp is the cofounder and chairman of Uber. Before that, he cofounded StumbleUpon.

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10. Scott Farquhar

10. Scott Farquhar

Age: 35

Net worth: $1.1 billion

Along with college friend Mike Cannon-Brookes, Scott Farquhar is the cofounder of Australian software company Atlassian. The company is worth $3.3 billion as of April 2014, and Farquhar and Cannon-Brookes each own about a third.

9. Mike Cannon-Brookes

9. Mike Cannon-Brookes

Age: 35

Net worth: $1.1 billion

Mike Cannon-Brookes cofounded Atlassian with college friend Scott Farquhar. According to Forbes, he owns a Tesla.

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8. Sean Parker

8. Sean Parker

Age: 35

Net worth: $2.5 billion

Sean Parker is the cofounder of Napster and founding president of Facebook.

7. Eduardo Saverin

7. Eduardo Saverin

Age: 33

Net worth: $4.9 billion

Eduardo Saverin is a cofounder of Facebook. He has since renounced his U.S. citizenship, moved to Singapore, and invested in startups like Hampton Creek and Silvercar.

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6. Drew Houston

6. Drew Houston

Age: 32

Net worth: $1.2 billion

Drew Houston is the cofounder and CEO of Dropbox. The company is now worth more than $10 billion.

5. Ryan Graves

5. Ryan Graves

Age: 31

Net worth: $1.4 billion

Ryan Graves was Uber's first hire. He got the job by tweeting at Travis Kalanick: ""heres a tip. email me :)."

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4. Dustin Moskovitz

4. Dustin Moskovitz

Age: 30

Net worth: $8.1 billion

Dustin Moskovitz was Facebook's third employee. He went on to found software firm Asana and, with his wife Cari, Good Ventures.

3. Mark Zuckerberg

3. Mark Zuckerberg

Age: 30

Net worth: $34.4 billion

Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a paper billionaire since he was 23. It became official in 2012, when he sold 30.2 million Facebook shares for a $1.13 billion profit.

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2. Bobby Murphy

2. Bobby Murphy

Age: 26

Net worth: $1.5 billion

Like his cofounder, Snapchat CTO Bobby Murphy owns at least a 15% stake in the disappearing photo messaging startup.

1. Evan Spiegel

1. Evan Spiegel

Age: 24

Net worth: $1.5 billion

Snapchat cofounder and CEO Evan Spiegel is the youngest billionaire in the world.

"I am a young, white, educated male," he once said at a conference. "I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair."

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