(Baonghean.vn) - Among the 10 youngest billionaires in the world in 2017, some are self-made billionaires, while others became rich thanks to inheriting huge fortunes.
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Alexandra Andresen is one of the most successful horse racers in Norway. In 2016, the young girl became a billionaire thanks to a huge inheritance from her family. |
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Katharina Andresen is Alexandra Andresen's older sister. Like her younger sister, Katharina also became wealthy thanks to her family's inheritance. |
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Gustav is the heir to Salmar, one of the world's largest salmon producers. In 2013, Gustav's father transferred most of the company's ownership to his son, although he remained behind the scenes and in charge. |
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The Collison brothers founded Stripe in 2011. This is a popular global payment service that makes online payments easy and fast by connecting online sales websites with card companies and bank accounts. |
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Evan Spiegel was born into a prestigious family in the US, with both parents being famous lawyers. Spiegel himself is considered an intelligent and creative young man. He studied product design at Stanford but dropped out. He and Bobby Murphy founded Snapchat, the self-destructing messaging app. Snap had a very successful IPO in early March this year. |
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Theodor is the youngest son of billionaire Ludwig Georg Braun, who took over B. Braun AG and turned it into one of the world's largest medical products companies. |
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Patrick Collison is the brother of John Collison, co-founder of Striple. Not long ago, this company successfully raised $150 million from CapitalG - an investment fund of Alphabet, raising the company's valuation to $9.2 billion. |
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Bobby Murphy, co-founder of Snap, is also a close friend of Evan Spiegel. He is a former student of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Stanford University. In September 2011, Murphy, Spiegel and his team officially released the Snapchat software. The group operated right at Spiegel's father's house in Los Angeles (USA). |
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Wan Han's wealth comes mainly from his stake in Juneyao Air, which he inherited from his father. Juneyao also has interests in retail, education, culture and food. |
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Lukas Walton is the grandson of Sam Walton - founder of the world's leading retail corporation Walmart. He inherited a huge fortune after his father died in a plane crash in 2005. |
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