2. Topic
10 successful youths during
2000 to 2013
overview
Mark Zuckerberg
Haroon Tariq
Arfa Kareem
Aisam-ul-Haq
M.S Dhoni
Dustin Moskovitz
Malala Yousafzia
Sean Belnick
Tiger Woods
3. Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and
CEO of Facebook, which he started in
his college dorm room in 2004 with
roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris
Hughes.
Zuckerberg won the 2007 Crunchier
Award for ‘Best Startup CEO.He also
won the 2012 Crunchier Award for CEO
of the year.
His Net worth US $ 16.8 billion (2013)
4. Dustin Moskovitz (born May
22, 1984) is an American internet
entrepreneur who co-founded the social
networking website Facebook
In March 2011, Forbes ranked
Moskovitz as one of the world's
youngest self-made billionaires on the
basis of his 7.7% share in Facebook.
His Net worth US$ 3.8 billion (2013)
5.
18-year-old Haroon Tariq from
Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
province
He has passed 46 school
examinations with a grade of A or
A* in the past three years, having
sat rather more than 50 with two
different exam boards,
Cambridge International
Examinations and Edexcel.
6. Malala Yousafzai
Passionate. Powerful. Puissant.
These were the first words that came to in
the mind when we first heard about Malala
Yousafzai. On October 9, 2012, then 15-yearold Malala was shot in the head at point
blank range by Taliban combatants. Her only
crime was speaking out about the right of
girls to get an education.
July 12 was officially dubbed by the UN as
"Malala Day." Malala and 500 youth
delegates from 85 different countries
the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize
nominee
7. Arfa Kareem was born on 2 February
1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani
student and computer prodigy
In 2004 at the age of nine years she
became the youngest Microsoft Certified
Professional (MCP).
She kept the title until 2008.
Arfa represented Pakistan on various
international forums including the TechEd
Developers Conference.
She also received the President’s Award
for Pride of Performance.
She was invited by Bill Gates to visit the
Microsoft Headquarters in the USA.
8. When he was only 14 years
old, Sean Belnick created
bizchair.com, an internet retailer for all
types of furniture.
Sean Belnick began with an initial
investment of 500 dollars and ran his
business operations from his
bedroom.
In 2004, he moved into his first
warehouse and by 2009, he had more
than 702,000 square feet of
warehouse space from the initial 40,00
square feet.
In 2010, bizchair had sales of more
than 58 million dollars.
He started out with just a few office
chairs and eventually one
employee, he now sells over 25,000
products and sold chairs to
Microsoft, Google and Abercrombie
and Fitch
9. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi was on born 17 March
1980, in Lahore, Pakistan) is a professional
tennis player from Pakistan. He is currently
Pakistan's top player. A top-10 doubles player, his
highest singles ranking was no. 103. He is the
only Pakistani tennis player to reach the final of a
Grand Slam
Qureshi teamed with Israeli player Amir Hadad
the US Open tournaments in 2002
He has won the most Davis Cup matches for
Pakistan
Qureshi is now a member of the "Champions
for Peace" club
10. Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American
professional golfer whose achievements to
date rank him among the most successful
golfers of all time. Currently the World No.
1, he has been one of the highest-paid
athletes in the world for several years
according to Forbes.
He first reached the number one position
in the world rankings in June 1997
from June 2005 to October 2010 as world
number one
After winning the Arnold Palmer
Invitational on March 25, 2013, he ascended
to the No.1 Ranking once again.
11. M. S. Dhoni; born 7 July 1981) is an Indian
cricketer and the current captain of the Indian
national cricket team. He is an attacking righthanded middle-order batsman and wicketkeeper.
He took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul
Dravid in 2007 and led the team to its first ever
bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New
Zealand. Under his captaincy, India won the
2007 ICC World Twenty20, the CB Series of
2007–08, the 2010 Asia Cup, the 2011 ICC
Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions
Trophy. In the final of the 2011 World Cup,
After taking up the Test captaincy in 2008, he
led the team to series wins in New Zealand and
West Indies, and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in
2008, 2010 and 2013.
Dhoni also led the Indian team to number one
position for the first time in the ICC Test
rankings. In 2013, under his captaincy, India
became the first team in more than 40 years to
whitewash Australia in a Test series. Dhoni
became the first captain to win all the ICC
trophies
Dhoni’s Net worth: $26.5 million
12. Martina Hingis is a Swiss professional
tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks
as World No. 1 She won five Grand Slam
singles titles (three Australian Opens, one
Wimbledon and one US Open. She also won
nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles
winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam
in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles
title.
Hingis returned to the WTA tour in 2006.
She then climbed to world no. 6 and won
three singles titles
In June 2011, she was named one of the
"30 Legends of Women's Tennis:
Past, Present and Future" by Time. In 2013
Hingis was elected into the International
Tennis Hall of Fame.