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Lunchtime Links: The world's youngest billionaire

Financial News points out that the youngest billionaire in the world is not actually Mark Zuckerberg, it's his colleague, Dustin Moskowitz. Aged merely 26, Dustin is now worth $2.7bn.

If this is not depressing enough (for everyone aged >26 and worth <$1m), Financial News also points out that there are 20 billionaires under 40 on this year's Forbes list, whereas last year there were 8.

Senior banker at party says he hired 7,000 people last year, about 10 of whom were in the UK (The Times)

Man Group is expanding in the US and has hired three people. (FinAlternatives)

Banks' trading book leverage is twice as high as hedge funds' (Financial Times)

A specialist in market abuse from the FSA has joined Promontory Financial Group, a consultancy. (Financial News)

The new hot thing: liability management. (Financial Times)

74,000 people applied to be Charlie Sheen's intern. (NYPost)

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  • Jo
    John
    11 March 2011

    He put some serious work in, according to Bloomberg's 'Dealbreaker' documentary recently. At the age of about 9 he taught himself C++ from a book and went on to develop code in his bedroom through to university where he created his website, The Facebook.

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