Are they Accidental Billionaire?

Posted by: admin in Web on Feb 16, 2011

Tagged in: Web Entrepreneur , Accidental Billionaire

Accidental Billionaire, mark zuckerberg, Don’t just work hard, work smart,Who knows, maybe you will be an accidental billionaire? Sometimes the best way to learn is simply to watch the masters, and then mimic what they do. But what if we look to learn to be an accidental billionaire like Mark Zuckerberg? What do you think, is it possible to be an outlier and earn money in billions?

Here are some remarkable people who started out in very young age and earned billions. To these people age hasn't been an obstacle they combined innovation and determination to make produce thriving businesses. They developed business plan based on their hobbies or to solve some problem and started earning serious money.

The richest are Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the pair who set up Google in the late 1990s. They went from PhD students to (paper) billionaires in about five years.

The youngest is 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook, who has returned to the billionaire list in 2010 after dropping out in 2009 amid the economic downturn.

Famous Internet Entrepreneurs:

    * Sergey Brin & Larry Page - Google
    * Bill Gates and Paul Allen - Microsoft - MSN
    * Chad Hurley, Steve Chen (YouTube) and Jawed Karim - YouTube
    * Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
    * Pierre Omidyar and John Donahoe - eBay
    * Tom and Chris DeWolfe - Myspace
    * Jimmy Wales- Wikipedia
    * Jeff Bezos - Amazon
    * Craig Newmark - Craigslist
    * Jerry Yang and David Filo - Yahoo
    * Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Luke Nosek - Paypal
    * Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield -Flickr
    * Reed Hastings - Netflix
    * Jack Dorsey - Twitter
    * Kevin Rose - Digg
    * James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen - Netscape
    * Joshua Schachter - del.icio.us
    * Shawn Fanning - Napster
    * Sky Dayton - EarthLink
    * Bob Parsons - Go Daddy
    * Tom Fulp -Newgrounds
    * Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban -     * James D. Rolfe - Cinemassacre
    * Michael Arrington - TechCrunch
    * Craig Skistimas -ScrewAttack
    * Chris Pirillo - Lockergnome
    * Arvind A. Raichur - AllLaw.com, Inc.
    * Steffan Sondermark Fallesen - Servage Hosting
    * Moot - 4chan.org
    * Pascal Nijboer GOCAL.nl - GOCAL

Don’t just work hard, work smart!

Who knows, maybe you will be the next accidental billionaire?

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