Net worth: $2.8 billion
Age: 35
Parker, who also founded Napster, recently announced a gift of $600 million to start the Parker Foundation, which will focus on funding programs in three main categories: life sciences, global public health, and civic engagement.
Parker recently pledged $24 million to develop the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford.
In 2014, he launched a civic engagement startup called Brigade Media.
In the summer of 2013, he spent some $4.5 million to transform a campsite in Big Sur, California, into a magical forest paradise for his wedding to Alexandra Lenas. Parker faced heavy criticism after the wedding, because the preparation required installing temporary structures in an ecologically sensitive area, and he failed to obtain the proper permits from the California Coastal Commission.
The controversy ended with a $2.5 million settlement with the commission.