Fil-Am is one of world’s youngest billionaires

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Forbes magazine listed 1,826 billionaires from around the world in its 2015 The World’s Billionaires list.

READ: 11 Filipinos in Forbes list of world’s billionaires for 2015

Forbes revealed that 46 of the world’s wealthiest people are under 40 years old.  

Among the young billionaires is a Filipino American named Bobby Murphy. Ranked at No. 1,250, Murphy has a net worth of US$1.5 billion. He is 26 years old.

Forbes revealed: “Murphy and Stanford University buddy Evan Spiegel together founded mobile app Snapchat. The company was valued in its latest investment round at US$10 billion, with reports in February of 2015 that the company had received new funding offers at an eye-popping valuation of US$19 billion.”

Forbes went on to note that Murphy is “the son of California state employees, one of whom emigrated from the Philippines.”

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