Top 10 Youngest CEOs in the World

The youngest CEOs in the world are top-rated and successful by all of the world’s standards. With the youngest on our list only a little over 19 years old, the world sure has some intelligent and dedicated youngsters running the world in the business/professional space.

Some of these CEOs began at a very tender age and in no time, doubled their income and solved some of the world’s problems no one knew existed. Some, on the other hand, began at a not-so-tender age but were also able to make a name for themselves as one of the youngest CEOs in the world today.

Let’s see the top 10 chief executive officers in the world today who are young and making it big!

10. Matthew J. Meloy

Age- 43

Matthew Meloy is the CEO of Targa Resources, a US-based fortune 500 company. Targa is one of the biggest providers of natural gas liquids in the States. Prior to becoming the CEO and director of Targa in 2020, Matthew Meloy served as the President, General Partner, Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer, and Executive Vice President of the company at various intervals.

9. Mark Zuckerberg

Age- 38

Mark Zuckerberg almost needs no introduction! He is the co-founder of Facebook, a social media platform, and Meta Platforms, the company that parents Facebook.

Zuckerberg is the chairman, CEO, and majority shareholder of the company. He founded Facebook in February 2004 with his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes while he was still studying at Harvard University. By 2012, the platform reached one billion users and Zuckerberg became one of the youngest self-made millionaires in the world by 2007 at the age of 23.

Currently, his net worth is over $62 billion.

8. Prag Agrawal

Age- 38

From being an intern researcher for Microsoft Research, AT&T Labs, Research, and Yahoo!, Prag Agrawal has worked his way to becoming the CEO of one of the Fortune 500- Twitter.

Agrawal was formerly the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Twitter before he became the head of Project Bluesky at the company. He eventually replaced Jack Dorsey upon his retirement in 2021. As the CEO of Twitter, the Indian-American entrepreneur has annual compensation of $1 million as well as stock compensation worth $12.5 million.

7. David Karp

Age- 36

David Karp is an American entrepreneur and blogger among other things. He is popularly known for being the founder of Tumblr. Although he began his career as an intern with Frederator Studios where he built the studio’s first blogging platform, he has now grown to become one of the youngest CEOs in the world.

Celebrity Networth estimates him to be worth $200 million.

6. Ben Kaufman

Age- 36

Ben Kaufman is the founder and CEO of CAMP, a family experience store retail chain. Before he founded the company, however, Kaufman worked as the Chief Marketing Officer at BuzzFeed- a position that gave him the opportunity to oversee the company’s commerce division and marketing team.

He is equally the founder of Quirky, a marketplace that bridged the gap between investors and companies. Quirky however shut down in 2015. Ben Kaufman is worth millions of dollars and he is equally one of the most respected and youngest CEOs in the world.

5. Suhas Gopinath

Age- 35

Suhas Gopinath is an Indian entrepreneur, founder, CEO, and Chairman of Globals Inc., a multinational IT company. He founded his company and became the CEO before he reached the age of 18. He was reportedly considered the youngest CEO in the world at 17.

With the help of books and other study materials, Gopinath created his first website () at the age of 14 and since then, he has not relented in providing value via his company.

4. Jared Hecht

Age- 35

Jared Hecht is the co-founder of Fundera, an online business lending aggregator. He is equally the founder of GroupMe, a group chat service purchased by Skype in August 2011 and later by Microsoft in October of the same year.

Hecht is an investor and advisor to firms like SmartThings, Codecademy, and TransferWise. The CEO is worth millions of dollars.

3. Evan Spiegel

Age- 32

If you’ve been looking for the face being Snapchat, here you have him!

Evan Spiegel is an American businessman who founded Snap Inc. alongside his Stanford University colleagues at the time. The 32-year-old CEO was a one-time world-youngest-billionaire (2015) who achieved a net worth of $2.1 billion at the age of 26.

Spiegel’s aim in creating Snapchat was to provide an instant messaging platform for users. This idea was scorned by his peers at the time but with the establishment of Snap Inc. and Snapchat, his dream eventually came alive. Snapchat was released in 2011, the same year the company was founded.

2. Ritesh Agarwal

Age- 28

Ritesh Agarwal is an Indian entrepreneur and founder/CEO of OYO Rooms, also known as OYO Hotels & Homes. The company is a multinational hospitality chain of franchised and leased hotels, homes, and living spaces generally.

OYO Rooms was founded in 2012 by Agarwal but was officially launched in 2013. In 2020, he became the second-youngest self-made billionaire, coming behind Kylie Jenner. According to Hurun Rich List, his net worth at the time was approximately $1.1 billion at the time.

He is listed in Forbes 30 under 30 list for Asia.

1. Advait Thakur

Age- 19

Advait Thakur is the youngest CEO in the world. The Indian native was born in 2003. Thakur is a computer programmer and internet entrepreneur who started his entrepreneurial journey at a very tender age.

Advait Thakur is a young CEO who was born in 2003. He is an Indian computer programmer Teenage Internet entrepreneur, AI scientist, and software engineer.

He founded his company, Apex Infosys India in 2015 and was among The Startup India’s “Top 10 Young Entrepreneurs in India 2018” list as well as India Today’s “Young Entrepreneurs of 2019”. Apex Infosys India is a technology and innovation firm that specializes in Internet of Things (IoT) products and services.