A bachelor is a man who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet. An eligible bachelor is a bachelor considered to be a particularly desirable potential husband, usually due to wealth, social status or other specific personal qualities.
Here is a list of top 10 Richest Bachelors In The World :
#10. Jack Dorsey, The Creator of Twitter And Mobile Payment Service Square
Country : USA
Born : November 19, 1976
Net Worth : $1.15 billion
Jack Dorsey fit the perfect description of the Silicon Valley billionaire: he dropped out of college, founded one of the most popular and relevant social networks and ahead of all with the introduction of the new technology of mobile payments and wallets. Dorsey, a certified massage therapist, gave up New York University in 1999. The future billionaire frequented punk concerts in his youth. In 2006, Dorsey, along with Evan Williams, Stone and Noam Bizom Glass founded Twitter. He still gets a large part of the income from the participation in the company. His share is about 4%. In 2008, Dorsey resigned as CEO of the company and now takes the place of the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Nevertheless, most of the time, Jack is working on his own mobile payment service Square, made a breakthrough in the payments market.
Media reported about the relationship Dorsey with Keith Grier, a party to the New York women’s creative association Conversations.
#9. Markus Persson, The creator of computer game Minecraft
Country : Sweden
Born : June 1, 1979
Net Worth : $1.33 billion
Markus “Notch” Persson is a creator of Minecraft game, sold by Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion. Persson became interested in programming as a child – when his parents divorced, his mother gave Persson to the computer club. Because of problems in the family Persson could not even finish high school, but excelled in creating games. In 2004 he took a job in Midasplayer, later famous as King.com, but left five years later. At the same time there was a Minecraft, originally developed as a remedy for loneliness Persson. By 2011, million copies of the game were sold and another 10 million – over the next 10 months.
Persson was married, but divorced in 2012, have been married for a little over six months, he informed his readers about it on Twitter quickly.
#8. Bobby Murphy, Co-founder of the service Snapchat
Country: USA
Born : 1989
Net Worth: $1.8 billion
Bobby Murphy, together with Evan Spiegel have created an application for the exchange of self-destructing messaging – Snapchat. He is a couple of years older than his partner Evan Spiegel, but in business he has always played the role of second fiddle. Nevertheless, in contrast to the general directors of service he get along well with the management team and remains one of the largest owners of the company, investors have estimated at $16 billion. According to Forbes, Murphy owns a share not less than 11%. Service continues to gain popularity and boasts a hundred-million daily audience that undoubtedly attracts investors.
#7. Evan Spiegel, Co-founder and CEO of Snapchat service
Country : USA
Born : June 4, 1990
Net Worth : $2.1 billion
Evan Spiegel grew up in the American wealthy family, went to Stanford, where together with friends at the student brotherhood Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown began to actively seek business idea that could shoot. The first project of young entrepreneurs became Picaboo service by which it would be possible to exchange “self-destructing” pictures. It quickly became clear that the greatest potential of such a project among young audiences using mobile devices. However, the project was not successful, and the partners eventually had a falling out and parted. In the fall of 2011 in the AppStore Snapchat appeared – updated Picaboo service. The effect was instantaneous and unpredictable – college students in the United States instantly “got sick” with it.
According to rumors, the 25-year-old billionaire is dating with a model and ex-wife of actor Orlando Bloom Miranda Kerr.
#6. Tom Persson, The Heir to the founder of H&M
Country : Sweden
Born : 1985
Net Worth : $2.2 billion
Tom Persson is a presenter of the third generation of a family that made its fortune on “cheap chic” – H&M stores. His grandfather Erling Persson founded the network in 1947. Tom’s brother Karl Johan is a CEO of the company, and his father, Stefan Persson, is a chairman of the board of directors and the richest man in Sweden. Tom’s sister, brother, aunt and father are billionaires. Tom lives in Stockholm and works in the film industry.
#5. Julio Mario Santo Domingo III, DJ and Heir of Brewer SABMiller Founder
Country: USA
Age: 30
Net Worth: $2.4 billion
New York DJ inherited the property from gone grandfather and namesake Julio Mario Santo Domingo, who died in 2011. Berry magnate shared the heritage between two sons, who are in a rating of richest people of America and grandchildren got one sixth. In 2015, he became a little richer: the share price of his company jumped amid the news that the giant competitor – brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev – wants to buy SABMiller.
#4. Robert Pera, The founder of Ubiquiti Networks
Country: USA
Born : March 10, 1978
Net Worth: $3.3 billion
Robert Pera began his career as an engineer at Apple equipment in 2003. However, two years later, he left the company and founded his own Jobs – Ubiquiti Networks. Later, the young billionaire admitted: “Apple is a great company, but I realized that I was dreaming of an even bigger success, and even faster.” Feather’s Company is engaged in software and ICT systems. Ubiquiti Networks specializes in emerging markets and keeps costs low. The product range includes the gain of the system Wi-Fi, capable of providing access to the Internet for the 10-10 000 people within 36 miles. Pera made a public company in October 2011 and became a billionaire at the age of 34 years.
Pera is not married and he tries not to publicize his personal life.
#3. Jan Koum, Creator of the messenger WhatsApp
Country : USA
Born : February 24, 1976
Net Worth : $8.5 billion
A native of Ukraine, Jan Koum at the age of 16 immigrated to California with his mother and got an apartment on the State aid program. His mother worked as a nanny, a young Ian swept floors to earn a little money. When his mother was diagnosed with cancer, the family began to live on her disability benefits. Kum well versed in computers and took a job at Yahoo in a place of safety and engineering infrastructure. Kum has worked 9 years under the guidance of one of the founders of Yahoo, David Filo. In 2007, Kum left the company, and has created WhatsApp messenger in 2009 – the largest of such services in the world with 600 million users. In February 2014 Facebook announced the purchase of WhatsApp for $19 billion. Kum entered the Facebook board of directors and was CEO of WhatsApp, with a salary of $1 a year and limited stake worth $2 billion.
It is reported that Kum meets with 25-year-old Ukrainian-born model Evelina Mambetova.
#2. Elon Musk, The Founder of Tesla Motors
Country : USA
Born : June 28, 1971
Net Worth : $11.3 billion
Musk is a native of South Africa. As a child, Mask was fond of programming and at the age of 12 he concluded the first transaction: sold the game Blast Star developed by himself for $500. The future billionaire has invested money in the purchase of shares in a pharmaceutical company, and then sold them for a few thousand dollars. At the age of 17 with this money against the will of parents Elon emigrated to Canada and enrolled at King’s College in Kingston.
Musk has been married twice. With his first wife Justine he met while studying in college. They have five children, but they divorced in 2008. In the same year he married British actress Talulah Riley, but two years later the couple broke up.
#1. Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
Country : USA
Born : August 21, 1973
Net Worth : $37.1 billion
Sergey Brin was born in Moscow and at the age of 6 years old he moved with his parents to the United States. Brin is one of the founders of Google. The billionaire has entrusted the operational management of the search giant to his longtime partner Larry Page, and focused on the development of the mysterious Google X division generating the most breakthrough ideas industry and seeks to translate those ideas into reality. In Breen’s portfolio there are an unmanned vehicle and augmented reality glasses that the businessman almost always wears. For example, under his leadership, a smart contact lens were developed, onboard wind turbine and Google Glass.
In 2013, the name of Brin flashed in the headlines of mass media. The press wrote about the billionaire’s affair with a young employee of Google, because of which Brin left his wife Anna Voyzhitski after 6 years of marriage. Legally couple divorce was not formalized, they have two children.
Top 10 Richest Bachelors In The World
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