Social media today has become part of our daily life. Social media is used to pass information, trends, news, day to day activities, videos, pictures and even showcasing your professional career. With Facebook boasting of 1.1billion users, Twitter about 310 million users, LinkedIn about 255 million users. You ask yourself, who are the founders and creators to these social media and how much are they worth?

6. Evan Spiegel (Snapchat)– $2.1 Billion

Evan Thomas Spiegel who was born in June 4, 1990, is an American Internet Entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat. He introduced the 1 to 10 seconds snap video as a means of updating ones stauts and communication between friends. He attended Stanford University and proposed Snapchat as a class project though he did not complete his degree at Stanford. He is said to be worth 2.1 Billion US Dollars and Snapchat has about 30 million active users


5. Jack Dorsey (Twitter) $2.3 Billion

Jack Dorsey born November 19, 1976, is an American programmer and entrepreneur widely known as a co-founder and CEO of the social media Twitter. He is also the founder of Square, a mobile payments company. Jack Dorsey attended Missouri University of Science and Technology before transfering to New York University but didn't complete his degree. Dorsey thought that SMS text suited the status message idea, and built a prototype of Twitter in about 2 weeks. Twitter has about 310 million active users.


4. Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) $3.6 Billion

Reid Garrett Hoffman born in August 5, 1967, is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network that is used mainly for professional networking. He attended Stanford University in 1990 and yes he graduated from there. Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, as the first business-oriented online social networks. LinkedIn has 255 million active users and still counting.


3. Jan Koum (WhatsApp) $7.9 Billion

Jan Koum born February 24, 1976, is an American internet entrepreneur and computer programmer who is the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp, the most popular messaging application which is now acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for a sum of $19 Billion US Dollars. He grew up in Fastiv, Ukraine and at the age of 18, he had an interest in programming and attended San Jose State Universityand later dropped out. Koum chose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like “what’s up,” just about a week later on his birthday, Feb. 24, 2009, WhatsApp Inc. was incorported having over 800 million active users.


2. Larry Page (Google) $29.2 Billion

Lawrence "Larry" Page born March 26, 1973, is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google Inc. Growing up in Michigan, United States, he was first very attracted to computers when he was just six years old. Larry holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan with honors and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. In 1998, Google was incorporated and is the most popular search engine in the world today.


1.Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) $46 Billion

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg born May 14, 1984, is an American computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, the chairman, chief executive, and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook. Together with his roomates at Harvard University, Facebook was launched from the dormitory rooms from Harvard. Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year to complete his social media project which turned out to be the most popular social media in the world today. Facebook boasts of 1.1 billion active users.



Source http://taskytech.com/top-6-richest-social-media-entrepreneurs/

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