Oleg Bakhmatyuk: an egg-cellent 35 year-old business man

This 35-year-old from western Ukraine is the majority owner of Avangard, Ukraine's largest producer and exporter of chicken eggs.

Yes, chicken eggs! Bakhmatyuk worked previously in the lucrative state gas and oil industry, but moved into egg and egg products because he thinks that businesses will be increasingly interested in feeding the world's hungry people in the future. (Link | Photo)

The 26 year-old who had the best college roommate ever

Just 8 days younger than his Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz was Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate and Facebook's third employee. Serving as Facebook's first Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering, Moskovitz amassed a self-worth of over $2.7 billion. He left Facebook in 2008 to start his own company, Asana.(Link | Photo)

From rock star to mega-rich retailer by age 35

Yusaku Maezawa is a former rock musician who started selling CDs and band t-shirts online back in the early 1990's. He then started a company called Start Today, along with a wildly-successful e-commerce site called Zozotown. Zozotown is set up like a mall, with different shops for different types of fashion and other products that are all sold on consignment.

The company has doubled its value every year since it was established in 2005, and Zozotown currently has over 3 million subscribers (one must subscribe in order to access Zozotown). At age 35, Maezawa is a billionaire and his company is still flourishing despite hard economic times felt elsewhere in the world. (Link )