9 tech founders who are the 'Mark Zuckerbergs' of their countries - they're rich, successful and younger than 35

Brothers Patrick and John Collison, both 26, have been called the "Mark Zuckerbergs of Ireland" thanks to the success of their payments startup Stripe — even though they live in Silicon Valley now.

Stripe recently cut a deal to power ApplePay and it's worth $5 billion.

28-year-old Quek Siu Rui dropped out of grad school to co-found Carousell, a person-to-person sales app that's gaining mega traction in Singapore.

Yoshikazu Tanaka started his social network SNS Gree as a lark at the age of 26. In 2010, not long after he turned 33, he became the youngest-ever founder of a company listed on the front section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

His net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion.

Michael Litt co-founded video marketing startup Vidyard in 2010 as part of a final-year project at the University of Waterloo.

Today, Vidyard has graduated from the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program and is ranked as one of Canada's top startups. It has raisd nearly $26 million.

Spotify CEO and founder Daniel Ek is worth $400 million at age 32 — and it's not even his first company.

Ek has sold his previous startups to companies like TradeDoubler and eBay.

33-year-old Gustavo Caetano took a struggling mobile game distribution company he founded in 2004 and turned it into Samba Tech, now Latin America's biggest online video platform.

20-year old Mubarak Muyika is the CEO of Zagace, a Kenyan startup that makes business software. And when he was 16, he founded Hypecentury Technologies, a web hosting company that he sold in a six-figure deal.

In fact, he turned down a generous scholarship to Harvard to pursue entrepreneurship.

In 2008, Deepak Ravindran and three of his fellow students dropped out of Kannur University to found Innoz, a company that lets users do Google and Wikipedia searches via text message — crucial in India, since mobile Internet is way less common.

Last year, Ravindran left Innoz to found Lookup, a service for mobile users to chat with local businesses.

Mark Zuckerberg is currently worth about $38 billion thanks to Facebook, which he co-founded in his early 20's.

Facebook's rapid international growth, plus projects like the Internet.org initiative, mean that Facebook is making it difficult for entrepreneurs to replicate Facebook's success.

Recently, Zuckerberg has spent a lot of time trying to get the Chinese government to allow its citizens access to Facebook.

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