17 people who became billionaires with the least amount of work

Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy founded Snapchat in 2011 after they came with the idea of a photo-sharing app in which the pictures disappear.

By 2014, their sizable stock holdings put their net worths over $1 billion, and the 20-somethings appeared on the Forbes billionaires list one year later.

Sean Parker may have co-founded the pioneering music-sharing site Napster, but it was his brief stint as president of Facebook that earned him billionaire status.

Parker served as Facebook's first president for a little over a year starting in 2004. He left the company in early 2006, but retained nearly 70 million Facebook shares, according to Bloomberg. He sold about 3.5 million of them ahead of Facebook's 2012 initial public offering, putting him firmly in billionaire territory.

Pierre Omidyar launched eBay.com in 1995 at the age of 28 — the first item the auction site ever sold was a broken laser pointer.

Three years later, the company went public at $18 a share. Within three months, stocks reached the $300 mark, making Omidyar a billionaire.

In 1993, investment banker Jeff Bezos started an online book store called Amazon.com. Six years later, in 1999, he surged into the Forbes' World's Billionaire list with a $10 billion fortune.

His net worth took a hit in the mid-2000s, but has since surged to over $100 billion, not only making him the richest person in the world, but the richest person in history.

Jay S. Walker may hold the record for fastest ascent to billionaire's status — he joined the club in 1998, just one year after he founded Priceline.com.

He fell off the billionaires list a year later after Priceline got hammered during the dot-com bust, and he left the company in October 2000. One year later, he sold his stock for "only" $426 million.

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg first entered the Forbes World Billionaire List back in 2008, thanks to his substantial holdings in the social media company he started four years earlier.

Nowadays, Zuckerberg is worth more than $60 billion.

David Filo and Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo in 1994. Two years later, they took their company public, and by 1998, the search-engine pioneers had officially become billionaires.

The three founders of Groupon all hit the jackpot in 2011 when their company went public, making billionaires out of Eric Lefkofsky, Andrew Mason, and Brad Keywell. Not bad for a company they started in 2008.

Mark Cuban is one of the most famous billionaires in the US, but how he officially joined the three-comma club isn't as widely known.

The future "Shark Tank" star became a billionaire back in 1999, when Yahoo bought his internet radio company Broadcast.com, four years after Cuban co-founded it. The $5.7 billion acquisition added $1.6 billion to Cuban's net worth, according to The Wall Street Journal, and it remains Yahoo's largest acquisition to date.

Brothers Patrick and John Collison became billionaires in 2016 after their four-year-old company Stripe, which streamlines online payments, was valued at $9 billion.

The valuation made the 27-year-old John, the younger of the two siblings, the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, a title he still holds.

In 1997, Gary Winnick founded the telecommunications company Global Crossing, which helped companies like Microsoft and AT&T access their Asian customers. Just one year later, Global Crossing went public, and its massive valuation earned Winick $4.5 billion.

By 2002, Global Crossing had gone bankrupt — although Winnick had sold most of his shares by then.