What do you imagine doing at the age of 23? Working? Maybe still studying? How about being worth $ 2 billion? According to Forbes (the media and publishing company) Albert von Thurn und Taxis is doing exactly that. In fact, he is the richest person (under 25 years old) in the world. He is listed as the world's richest 'Young Billionaire' and 488th richest person in the whole world. I am going to look at how he gained this fortune and who this virtually unheard of German is. If you read that he went to high school in Rome, joined the German military and then moved to Edinburgh to study Economics and Theology, you would probably think, so what? That's just nothing special, right?
Wrong. Apart from being a prince and the twelfth head of his family since it was granted aristocratic status, he owns one of the largest areas of forest in Europe (30,000 hectares). Additionally, he lives in and owns several others castles (all across the world), is a racing driver for an Italian racing team and owns a technology company.
he went from nothing, to pretty much the richest man in the world.
Not bad at all. $2,000,000,000 that is quite a few zeros..
There is not even a point having that much money. As James Dines
said: "If you don't spend money, it's just paper." Or words to
that effect.