Forbes’ annual under 30 list comprises 600 people under 30 from a total of 20 areas such as music, finance, and gaming.
Meet the #ForbesUnder30 Class of 2022: https://t.co/VFjCmCOiEA pic.twitter.com/LqqHhMuM9v
— Forbes (@Forbes) December 1, 2021
Forbes has 15 crypto people on the list, including PleasrDAO founder Emily Yang, OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, Alamada Research co-CEOs Caroline Ellison, and Sam Trabucco.
Sam Bankman-Fried and Brian Tubergen, founders of FTX and Alameda Research were the Renowned personalities included in the list.
The category with the most crypto leaders is finance with 11 names like Roneil Rumburg the co-founder of the blockchain-based streaming service Audius, Tegan Kline founder of the blockchain data indexing protocol Edge & Node, Clinton Bembry founder of the Slingshot-based decentralized finance platform.
Roneil Rumburg the co-founder of Audius Tweeted:
Feeling fortunate today to be included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2022 – and great to see many other friends there too!https://t.co/9o3WInPLkC
— Roneil Rumburg ? (@roneilr) December 1, 2021
Clinton Bembry founder of the Slingshot wrote:
look mom, I made it to forbes! pic.twitter.com/e9zCTRjnG6
— Clinton Bembry Jr. (@clintonbembryjr) December 1, 2021
Outside of finance, Emily Yang, co-founder of ‘pplpleasr’ was listed in the Art category.
Blockworks co-founders Jason Yanowitz and Michael Ippolito were also placed in the media category for their crypto media work.
Yang wrote:
since college I’ve always daydreamed about being on @Forbes 30 under 30 but being a small vfx artist I never even fathomed it was possible… NFTs changed my life once again ?
thank you @sabrinahahn for nominating me ? wgmi pic.twitter.com/FQvBW9R9lx
— pplpleasr (pls,pls) (@pplpleasr1) December 1, 2021
In October The Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people included six new members who have earned their wealth from cryptocurrency. Six of them collectively had the sum of $55.1 billion as per Forbes.
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