Youth Success and Richest in the Virtual World

Written By Teguh Fila on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 | Tuesday, January 04, 2011

1. Aodhan Cullen, 27 years old


Aodhan Cullen (born 1983) is the CEO of StatCounter, a web statistics company he founded at the age of 16. In 2008 the company surpassed two million members globally. It currently monitors three million websites and tracks over 10 billion pageloads per month. Cullen currently resides in Ireland with his wife Jenni.


2. Matt Mullenweg, 26 years old.

Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas) is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California.

He is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress and writes a popular blog ma.tt, a domain hack. After quitting his job at CNET, he has devoted the majority of his time to developing a number of open source projects and is a frequent speaker at conferences, such as Canada's Northern Voice and the WordCamp events organized around WordPress software.

In late 2005, he founded Automattic, the business behind WordPress.com and Akismet. Mullenweg attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where he studied jazz saxophone. Mullenweg is also a Dvorak Keyboard user.



3.Sean Belnick, 23 years old.

What to do when it was 14 years old. He is a young man who has a furniture store on the internet. Not only that, he worked in the room to manage 100 employees.

4. Jack Nickell, 30 years old.

Since 2000, Jack Nickell has pushed his community-centered online apparel store, Threadless, a site where users can pitch t-shirt designs to be sold. And with Nickell owning all the rights to each design submitted, he collects more than a couple nickels off each shirt. Enough to open a brick & mortar retail store.

5. Alexander Levin, 26 years old.

Alexander Levin is a co-founder of ImageShack. It has a subscription service, but the majority of their revenue is produced from advertising related to their free image hosting.

ImageShack.us was founded in November 2003 by Alexander Levin and Jack. Three years ago, Levin got the idea for ImageShack as a senior in high school while chatting in online message boards. He noticed a need for a place to store and share images separate from the forums, which didn’t provide enough storage space. With a bit of work, ImageShack was born.

6. Angelo Sotira, 28 years old.

deviantArt (official typeset as deviantART commonly abbreviated as dA) is an online community showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. deviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States.


7. Naveen Selvadurai, 28 years old.

Naveen graduated with degrees from King's College London in the UK & Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US, and went to work with Lucent, Sony, Nokia & Sun Microsystems before he started his mobile social networking venture Foursquare along with Dennis Crowley. His joint venture has an estimated value of $80 million. He has recently been listed in the 'World's New Young Millionaires' released by AOL Small Business.

8. Blake Ross, 25 years old.

Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla web browser; in particular, he started the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt, as well as the Spread Firefox project with Asa Dotzler while working as a contractor at the Mozilla Foundation. In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine's top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart. He was also a part of Rolling Stone magazine's 2005 hot list

9. Dustin Moskovitz, 26 years old.

Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984, Washington, D.C.) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking website Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes.[2] Moskovitz owns a 6% share of Facebook, giving him a net worth of US$1.4 billion. In 2010, Forbes 400 ranked Dustin Moskovitz as the world's youngest billionaire.

10. Mark Zuckerberg, 26 years old.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer scientist, software developer and philanthropist best known for creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is CEO and president. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University.[6][7] In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.

Source : Kaskus, Wikipedia.




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