Jeff Bezos – 6 years Net Worth: $114 billion Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy – 3 years Snapchat Spiegel Net Worth: $4 billion Murphy Net Worth: $3.8 billion Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy founded Snapchat in 2011. By 2014, their stock holdings in their popular startup app were worth more than $1 billion. Snap went public in 2016, making the pair multi-billionaires. Pierre Omidyar – 3 years eBay Net Worth: $7.8 billion Pierre Omidyar launched eBay in 1995. Three years later, the company went public. Three months after it went public, shares hit the $300 mark, making Omidyar a billionaire. Eric Lefkofsky – 3 years Groupon Net Worth: $1.7 billion All three founders of Groupon, Eric Lefkofsky, Andrew Mason, and Brad Keywell hit it big in 2011 when the company went public. Only Lefkofsky remains a billionaire today. Keywell’s net worth is $600 million and Mason’s is $230 million. Mark Zuckerberg – 4 years Facebook Net Worth: $66 billion Mark Zuckerberg famously founded Facebook from his Harvard dorm room. By 2008, his substantial stock holdings in his pre-IPO company had catapulted him into the billionaire’s club. He was 22 years old. Jerry Yang and David Filo – 4 years Yahoo Yang Net Worth: $2.2 billion Filo Net Worth: $3.2 billion In 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo founded Yahoo. Two years later, Yahoo went public. The pair officially became billionaires as a result of their pioneering search engine in 1998. Mark Cuban – 4 years Broadcast.com Net Worth: $4 billion Mark Cuban hit it big back in 1999 when Yahoo bought his startup internet radio company for $5.7 billion just four years after he founded it. Patrick and John Collison – 4 years Stripe Net Worth: $1.2 billion each Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison founded the mobile payment company square and became billionaires in 2016 when their company received a $9 billion valuation. Sean Parker – 1.5 years Facebook Net Worth: $7.6 billion Sean Parker may be better known for founding Napster, but it is his time as president of Facebook that made him a billionaire. He became president of the social network in 2004. He left in early 2006 with almost 70 million shares of the company. He sold 3.5 million of them before Facebook’s IPO, making him officially a billionaire. Eduardo Saverin – 1 year Facebook Net Worth: $6 billion Eduardo Saverin wasn’t at Facebook long. He was a co-founder of the social network in 2004 but was pushed out a year later. He retained a minority stake in the company, which was worth $1 billion in 2010.
