This Limerick Lad Is Officially The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire

If you feel like you’re winning at life this morning, we have something that will make you think again (sorry).

A 26-year-old from Limerick has been named the world’s youngest self-made billionaire by Forbes magazine.

John Collision created online payment firm Stripe with his brother Patrick back in 2010 and the US firm is now worth an incredible $9m.

Both John and Patrick were this week named as two new additions to the Forbes World’s Billionaires list, sitting alongside Snapchat founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy as the youngest people to make the list.

An amazing achievement at such a young age – fair play to them!

Now, we’re going to go back to checking our bank balance and crying hysterically…

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