Internet Millionaires Who Struck Gold Out of the Blue

# Kevin Systrom’s Astronomical Instagram Rise:

Instagram is now the new sedative in the social media and there are millions today who use Instagram including, politicians like Modi. It is one of the truly amazing digital inventions of all times. Its exceptional, dazzling rise to corporate and Internet domination is what lands its founder, Kevin Systrom, on this list. Instagram earned one million users within a month of its debut as an entity. And also witnessed millions of downloads on the first day of its launch into Android phones. Today, Kevin Systrom’s net worth is now over $400 million, all of it from a simple photo-sharing app.

# Markus Persson “Mines” a Gaming Fortune:

Games are something which we play in our leisure time just to entertain ourselves. But a lot of effort and intelligence is put into making a single gaming software. Markus Persson who works at Minecraft could be one of the least expected to be on this list, but yes he is and he’s now worth $1.5 billion. In “Minecraft,” players are able to build anything their imaginations can fathom, all in wonderful, pixilated, blocky beauty. And some such works have truly come from Persson’s brain whose inner workings created a whole new style in gaming world.

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