Ten years. 100,000 nominees. 6,000 revolutionaries across 20 industries. Within this all-time #ForbesUnder30 list: a Nobel laureate, six social media bigwigs, two crypto kings, two EV evangelists and the top-earning female athlete ever
Miley Cyrus rose to fame as a teen thanks to her starring role in Disney's popular TV series Hannah Montana. She was on the #ForbesUnder30 list in 2014 and is now on the Hall of Fame. "If I know there's going to be a greater reward by taking a greater risk, usually I'll do it."
Back in 2013 when 24-year-old Rihanna made the #ForbesUnder30 list, the pop star had secured endorsements with Vita Coco, Nivea and perfume Reb'l Fleur. Today Rihanna is a billionaire, thanks to Fenty Beauty, her 50/50 joint venture with LVMH
LeBron James made the inaugural #ForbesUnder30 list in 2012. Off the court, he has earned over $1 billion from deals with Nike and Walmart as well as from his appearance in 'Space Jam: A New Legacy'
Whitney Wolfe Herd started Bumble in 2014 as a dating app designed to enable women to make the first move. Two years later, she appeared on the #ForbesUnder30 list when Bumble had some 11 million registered users, now she's on the Hall of Fame
When Daniel Ek joined the inaugural #ForbesUnder30 class in 2012, his music streaming experiment Spotify had 10 million active users, was worth $2 billion and had just entered the U.S. Ek is now moving Spotify past pop-stars and opening his super streamer to storytelling
One decade after the #ForbesUnder30 list debuted, these young trailblazers have gone on to become billionaires, revolutionize industries and evolve into icons of business. These are the 30 standouts in 10 years of 30 Under 30 on.forbes.com/6012JWnke
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Our 10th anniversary #ForbesUnder30 class is set to define the next decade — and beyond
We published the first edition of the #ForbesUnder30 a decade ago, with one clear goal: to identify the new guard, the young innovators, trailblazers and disruptors remaking our world
When Spotify arrived in the U.S. in 2011, streaming was a $600 million business, accounting for 4% of the recording industry’s annual global revenue on.forbes.com/6010Jm2re
In 2020, streaming services delivered $13.4 billion in sales, representing 62% of industry revenue. Last year, Spotify paid out $5 billion to rights holders, mostly the big labels, which passed along an estimated $500 million of that to recording artists
“Let’s be real,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says. “I had no idea Spotify’s cultural and monetary impact would ever be this big.”
Public universities can deliver the most outstanding education to the broadest range of students at the most affordable price. That’s the message of Forbes’ 2021 ranking of top colleges forbes.com/sites/christia…
For the first time ever on a national ranking of America’s best colleges, a public school, is in the No. 1 spot
The fortunes of the nation’s richest self-made women soared 31% in our seventh annual ranking to $118 billion, amid a stock market boom on.forbes.com/6019ycRZS#SelfMadeWomen
A record 26 are now billionaires, including pop star mogul Rihanna and 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki #SelfMadeWomen
When Robyn Fenty, known to the world as Rihanna, launched Fenty Beauty in 2017, she sought to create a cosmetics company that made “women everywhere (feel) included.” #SelfMadeWomen
A perhaps unintended consequence: The beauty line has helped her enter one of the world’s most exclusive ranks: Billionaire #SelfMadeWomen
The case for California: why stories about the Golden State’s demise are overblown on.forbes.com/6016H7kbM
California, with the world’s fifth-largest economy, has topped the U.S. economy for growth in gross domestic product for each of the past 10 years – including the 2020 pandemic year, when California GDP growth contracted less than in the U.S. overall
While exits from San Francisco in the Q2 through Q4 of 2020 were 31% higher than during the same period in 2019, there was no pronounced change or evidence of a California exodus. More than three-quarters of San Franciscans who moved in 2020 stayed in the state