8 Successful Techies Under The Age Of 35

Pavel Durov

This Russian entrepreneur or Mark Zuckerberg of Russia started the social networking site VKontakte(VK) and also the mastermind behind the Telegram messenger. VK is like the Facebook of Russia, now. Last year he fled out of Russia due to governmental harassments on his company, saying, "the country is incompatible with Internet business at the moment". His latest discovery, the Telegram messenger along with a team of 12 members fetched 40 million registered users worldwide within 8 months.

Brothers Patrick and John Collison

Their idea of accepting credit cards on the web led to the emergence of their company, Stripe. The current valuation of this app is $5 billion. Stripe allows monetary transaction of all kinds from any part of the world. The Irish brothers are great coders and students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in the U.S. This is their second initiative together, as the first company Shuppa merged with Auctomatic.

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