2019 Forbes 30 Under 30
The results are in! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted nominations. We are pleased to announce this year’s top 10 most notable of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 richest tweens in Silicon Valley.
Brett Smith, age 19
Total parental assets: $5.5B
Brett is the founder of a D2C sticker company and is a member of the Stanford sailing team.
Brandon Smith, age 20
Total parental assets: $5.0B
Brandon’s parents bribed his way into Harvard with only $550k, 30% below the industry average.
Bill Smithy, age 29
Total parental assets: $4.0B
Bill has an Instagram picture with Barack Obama, in which his caption refers to the president as “my dude”.
William Smith Jr., age 22
Total parental assets: $3.1B
Sexual harassment lawsuits won: 14
Sarah Smith, age 23
Total parental assets: $830M
Sarah keeps it casual by forgoing any punctuation or capitalization use in her emails. She ends her emails with “Sent with Superhuman.”
Megan Smithy, age 25
Total parental assets: $1.2B
Megan occasionally tweets her opinions about brutalist architecture.
Paul Brett, age 26
Total parental assets: $800M
Paul retweets all of AOC’s Twitter content, yet votes Republican.
Sarah Paul, age 24
Total parental assets: $750M
Sarah works in venture capital and has been a follow-on investor in 9/10 deals her friends have also invested in.
Mike Paul, age 28
Total parental assets: $650M
Mike owns 3 pairs of Common Projects.
Paul Cheng, age 24
Total parental assets: $550M
Paul aced the SAT at the age of 5, graduated from MIT at 10, and invented the field of quantum-cloud-bio-technology at age 19. He is now a PM at Facebook, working on internal tools for advertisement content management.
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co-authored by Athena Kan, with inspiration from Zhi Pan :-)
