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Mark Zuckerberg ($72.9 billion)

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Believe it or not, this billionaire is another Harvard dropout. In fact, he invented Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, together with classmate Eduardo Saverin, after an earlier successful program called Facemash. The controversy lies in the fact that fellow Harvardians, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, claimed that it was they who first approached Zuckerberg with the idea. This led to a notorious lawsuit which was settled in 2008. The Winklevoss twins were awarded $20 million and what at the time was $45 million worth of stock. Imagine if they waited a little longer. Facebook had its IPO in 2012, and had an estimated 2 billion active users monthly in 2018. Zuckerberg has donated a lot to charitable causes, such as a solar powered drone project that can deliver internet to areas deprived of the web. He also donated $100 million to public schools in Newark, New Jersey.

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