Youngest and Rising CEOs
Youngest & Rising CEOs: Meet the Future of Leadership
Youngest and Rising CEOs is your source for the next generation of business stars who are defying conventional wisdom on what it takes to be a success. From high-powered boardrooms to garage start-ups, we highlight up-and-coming achievers with big ideas — and the energy to turn them into reality. These entrepreneurs are not waiting for the “perfect moment” to arrive; they are making it happen, incrementally.
Enter the realm of Gen Z and millennial CEOs who are building empires at 30, disrupting markets, causing ripples, and making the world sit up and take notice. Ranging from technology, fashion, banking, to green and social change, their narratives show us that age is just a number, but ambition is the secret.
We don’t merely tell success stories – we shed light on the hustle, the failures, the all-nighters spent on their coffee, and the ah-ha moments that pushed ideas into action. These are all stories brimming with lessons, paradigm shifts, and unleashed passion to fuel your aspirations.
Need to get inspired? Because the future is already here, and these young CEOs are already setting the path ablaze.
RANK | NAME | COMPANY |
1 | Advait Thakur | Apex Infosys India |
2 | Kaivalya Vohra | Zepto |
3 | Aadit Palicha | Zepto |
4 | Ritesh Agarwal | OYO Rooms |
5 | Ben Kaufman | Quirky |
6 | Evan Spiegel | Snap Inc. |
7 | Jared Hecht | Fundera |
8 | David Karp | Tumblr |
9 | Suhas Gopinath | Globals Inc. |
10 | Parag Agrawal | |
11 | Mark Zuckerberg | Meta Platforms (Facebook) |
12 | Matthew J. Meloy | Targa Resources Corp |
13 | Ankush Sachdeva | ShareChat |
14 | Neetish Sarda | Smartworks |
15 | Siddhant Saurabh | Zupee |
1.
Advait Thakur
CEO | Apex Infosys India
Advait Thakur is an emerging young Indian tech whiz and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Apex Infosys India, who has achieved his innovative achievements in AI, IoT, and smart home automation at the tender age of 19
2.
Kaivalya Vohra
Co-founder | Zepto
Kaivalya Vohra is the 21-year-old co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zepto, which has a value of $3.6 billion in 2024, and the youngest self-made billionaire to feature on Hurun India Rich List.
3.
Aadit Palicha
Co-founder | Zepto
Aadit Palicha, a 23-year-old Indian businessman and Stanford dropout, co-founder and CEO of Zepto, India’s fastest-growing quick-commerce grocery delivery startup worth over $900 million. His vision changed the face of quick commerce in India.
4.
Ritesh Agarwal
Founder | OYO Rooms
Ritesh Agarwal is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur and founder and CEO of OYO Rooms, a worldwide hospitality chain that transformed affordable accommodations. He is one of the youngest self-made billionaires in India.
5.
Ben Kaufman
CEO | Quirky
Ben Kaufman is a serial entrepreneur who founded Mophie and Quirky, aiming to make invention accessible to ordinary people, and is currently a Partner at Grown Up Studio.
6.
Evan Spiegel
CEO | Snap Inc.
Evan Spiegel is the CEO and co-founder of Snap Inc., who took a Stanford class project and turned it into Snapchat, the revolutionary social media platform used daily by hundreds of millions of users, and became a billionaire before the age of 25.
7.
Jared Hecht
CEO | Fundera
Jared Hecht is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of GroupMe, which was acquired by Microsoft for $85 million, and founded and former CEO of Fundera, a revenue-generating online marketplace for small business lending that has helped owners raise over $1 billion in loans.
8.
David Karp
Co-founder | Tumblr
David Karp is an American businessperson and creator of Tumblr, the groundbreaking microblogging network started in 2007 that changed internet content sharing and was bought out by Yahoo! for $1.1 billion in 2013.
9.
Suhas Gopinath
Founder | Globals Inc.
Suhas Gopinath is an Indian businessman who was the world’s youngest CEO at the age of 17, establishing Globals Inc., a multinational information technology firm dealing in enterprise solutions and cybersecurity.
10.
Parag Agrawal
Former CEO | Twitter
Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American software engineer and former CEO of Twitter, known for his leadership in advancing AI and decentralized social media projects during his tenure from 2021 to 2022.
11.
Mark Zuckerberg
CEO | Meta Platforms (Facebook)
Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder and CEO of Meta (then Facebook), who started the social networking giant in his Harvard dorm room in 2004 and became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at age 23 by transforming online social networking across the globe.
12.
Matthew J. Meloy
CEO | Targa Resources Corp
Matthew J. Meloy is the CEO and President of Targa Resources Corp., a major midstream energy company specializing in natural gas and natural gas liquids, with extensive leadership experience in the oil and gas industry.
13.
Ankush Sachdeva
Co-founder | ShareChat
Ankush Sachdeva is the young CEO and co-founder of ShareChat, an Indian social media platform supporting 15 regional languages, which he has led to a $5 billion valuation by empowering vernacular content and community building since 2017.
14.
Neetish Sarda
Founder | Smartworks
Neetish Sarda is a young and visionary entrepreneur, founder and Managing Director of Smartworks, India’s largest tech-enabled flexible workspace platform, recognized for revolutionizing office experiences across multiple cities and earning accolades like the Hurun Under 35 and Realty+ Young Achiever awards.
15.
Siddhant Saurabh
Co-founder | Zupee
Siddhant Saurabh is a young and rising entrepreneur, co-founder and CTO of Zupee, a leading online gaming platform in India, recognized in Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 for his role in building the company’s tech stack and driving its growth.