19. Bobby Murphy
Company: Snap Inc.
Net Worth: $9.8 billion*
Chances are, most of the people reading this have a Snapchat account. The social media app is one of the most popular in America, allowing people to exchange photos and post pictures and videos to their “stories.” Snap Inc. is worth $50 billion as of 2020, though some say it’s overvalued. Debate aside, there’s no denying that Snapchat has become a huge success story.
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It’s made its young founder, thirty-three-year-old Bobby Murphy, quite wealthy. He is not only the co-founder of Snap Inc., but also the CTO of the multinational company. He, along with Reggie Brown and Evan Spiegel, founded Snap when he was a student at Stanford.