Forbes recently announced the coveted 40 under 40 list and named four Indian-origin billionaires who made it big before turning 40.Boasting a cumulative net worth of over $11 billion, Ankur Jain, Nikhil Kamath, Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha were recognised for being among the 40 wealthiest self-made billionaires under the age of 40. The list also featured the likes of AI company founder Edwin Chen, worth $18 billion, and Wang Ning, worth $15.7 billion, topping the list, among many others.35-year-old Ankur Jain held the 19th rank on the list with a net worth of $3.4 billion. Living in the United States, Jain founded New York-based home rental rewards startup Bilt Rewards in 2019, after selling Humin, a contact management app he co-founded, to Tinder in 2016. He is the son of a former dot com billionaire and serves as the CEO of Bilt, which private investors valued at $10.8 billion. He did his graduation from the Wharton School. Closely following Jain, 39-year-old Nikhil Kamath, the only Indian on the list, occupied the 20th spot with a net worth of $3.3 billion. Kamath co-founded Bangalore-based discount brokerage Zerodha in 2010 with his older brother and fellow billionaire Nithin Kamath. Nikhil is the chief financial officer of Zerodha, which Forbes estimated was worth nearly $8 billion, while Nithin is CEO. In March 2024, Kamath started hosting a podcast entitled “WTF is”. The 27th place was shared by the co-founders of Mercor, Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha, along with the third co-founder Brendan Foody. Hiremath and Midha, both 22-year-old Indian-origin billionaires, were worth Rs 1,826 crore each. The high school friends and 2024 Thiel fellows co-founded AI recruiting startup Mercor in 2023 to help Silicon Valley’s biggest AI labs train their models. At 22, they were the youngest billionaires ever.Adarsh Hiremath, as per his LinkedIn profile, grew up in the Bay Area and went on to pursue a Concurrent Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science.Surya Midha, as per his own website was born in Mountain View and raised in San Jose, California by his parents who immigrated from New Delhi to the US. He earned a bachelor’s in Foreign Studies at Georgetown University at the same time Hiremath was at Harvard. Brendan Foody was also at Georgetown, studying economics.
