The youngest millionaires of 2025 are the test

Being a millionaire has ceased to be a goal for a small percentage within the 1% of the richest population on the planet: His goal is to become the youngest millionaire who manages to be.

However, while some have worked their own way to get it, “Great wealth transfer“It is causing many others to get it simply for being born In the right family.

According to The list of Milmillonarios that every year does Forbesthere are only 21 millionaires under 30 in 2025 with a heritage of more than 1 billion dollars. Of these, only two have entered the list this year for having founded their own company.

Millionaires “Old School”

The Forbes 2025 list of The youngest milmonaries reveals how fortune can get so much by inheritancefruit of empires raised by their parents or grandparents, as for the cunning of betting on booming sectors such as artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies.

According to the 2025 edition data published by Forbes, most of the world’s millmillonaries They are between 50 and 79 years old. Only 12% of millionaires with more than 1,000 million heritage are under 50 years old and only 21 of them are under 30 years old.

According to data of the United Nations, approximately Half of the world’s population is under 30 years old. However, only 0.00000027% of them are Milmillonarios. This contrast underlines how extraordinary it is to reach such a level of wealth at such an early age.

In most cases, these fortunes come from large family inheritancesas is the case of the heirs of the Mars family, famous for their chocolate bars: or the Walton, heirs of the empire of the Walmart supermarkets.

The era of the great heirs

In the 2000 and 2010 decades, the list of young Milmillonarios was dominated by Pujantes Technological entrepreneurs Like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Larry Page and Sergey Brin who revolutionized the world with the innovations that created their companies.

These names became synonymous with innovation and business success forged from scratch. However, in 2024 he already began observe the change in trend And it remains in 2025: most of the new millmillonarios under 30 years They have inherited their fortune, instead of creating it for themselves.

Thus, while before the “prodigy children” of technology lowered the average age of this Select Millionaire Clubnow the historical surnames and the Centenary companies occupy a central place among the richest of less than 30 years.

Among these new Millionaires is Johannes Von Baumbach, only 19, who has inherited with his three brothers of 23, 25 and 27, a fortune estimated at 5.4 billion dollars each, thanks to his participation in the pharmacist Boehringer Ingelheim who founded his great -grandfather.

It also emphasizes that, 15 of the 21 new milmonaries on the list, comes from Europe, being Germany the country with more representatives. To the four heirs of the Pharmaceutical Empire From Boehringer Ingelheim, Sophie Luise Fielmann, 30, which opens in the ranking with a fortune of 2.8 billion dollars, heiress of the German optic chain Fielmann.

From Germany Kevin David Lehmann also arrives, with a heritage of 3.8 billion dollars and only 22 years, who received 50% of the DM-Drogerie Markt drug stores; and Maxim Tebar, 24 years old, holding a part of the German STIHL chainsaw company that brings a fortune valued at 1.2 billion dollars.

Some of the rich heirs who became part of this list have increased their fortune for 2024. An example is found in the three brothers of the neighborhood, heirs of the ESSILORLUXOTTIC GASK EMPIREthat thanks to its new alliances with technology They have seen their fortune grow 40% this year until reaching 6,600 million dollars.

Some have had to fight

Although most of the Young Milmillonarios de 2025 They owe their fortune to inheritance, there are notable exceptions.

The Australian Ed Craven 29 years old, Cofundó Stake.com, the Major Casino Online Based on cryptocurrencies, which generated 4.7 billion dollars last year. Its success shows that, even being young, it is possible to make their way to success by own means in such agitated as is that of cryptocurrencies and content streaming.

Another case of professional success is that of Alexandr Wang28 years old, who Scale AI co -foundeda company dedicated to data annotation for artificial intelligence.

Wang’s case is somewhat peculiar because he had already entered the Forbes list in 2021 with A heritage above 1,000 million Of dollars, but the fluctuations of the economy raised him in 2022. However, a recent financing round valued at $ 13.8 billion has returned to the list with a equity of 3.6 billion dollars.

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