Just like last year, Adriaan Mol from Breda tops the list of the country’s richest young self-made millionaires. The place that the founder of payment processor Mollie also occupied last year. However, one thing we know for sure: next year that will no longer be the case. To get a listing in the list drawn up by the business magazine Quote, you cannot be older than 39 years. A criterion that the resident of Breda no longer meets next year.
What is striking in the annual list is that the hundred richest young millionaires in the Netherlands have become less wealthy together in the past year. Their total assets decreased by 1.1 billion euros to approximately 8.5 billion euros, Quote reports with the publication of the new top 100. The top players in the list in particular had to hand in quite a bit.
For example, list leader Mol, with an estimated capital of 2.8 billion euros, would have had to hand in a fifth of his capital.
Not exciting at the top
By the way, it is not really exciting at the top of the list of young rich. The number two, Robert Vis, co-founder of communication service provider MessageBird, has to make do with an estimated capital of 1 billion euros. While the top 3 is completed by 33-year-old Job van der Voort with a capital of 575 million. Van der Voort is the founder of Remote.com, a company that helps companies hire staff in countries where they are not present themselves.
Just like Mol, Vis and Van der Voort also saw their assets shrink, by almost a quarter and almost fifteen percent respectively. Quote attributes this, among other things, to ‘a plunge on the stock exchanges’ of tech companies.
DJs are good
We also find well-known provincial peers in the Quote ranking. Robbert van de Corput, better known as Hardwell, for example. Quote estimates the assets of the DJ from Breda at 19 million euros. Unlike the top performers in the list, he did see his assets grow, just like fellow DJs Martin Garrix (48 million) and Afrojack (26 million).
Sam Renders from Boxtel, aka DJ Sam Feldt, is also doing well in the DJ category. He sold the fan platform Fangage and as a result, together with business partner Nick Velten, conquers a place in the top 100.
Newbies
Other new Brabant faces in the list include Jorn Besselink from Rosmalen, from underwear brand On That Ass, and Stef van Vugt from Oosterhout. The latter makes covers from Abba to Stromae with his Fruits Music and also Spotify lists with rain sounds for people with insomnia.
Women also come off badly this year with only four entries in the top 100. However, Sharon Hilgers from Den Bosch is again in the list. The woman behind the jewelery brand My Jewelery has to give up a place with place thirty compared to last year. Top model Doutzen Kroes, fashion designer Nikkie Plessen and influencer Negin Mirsalehi are the other three women in the list. The latter is a newcomer.
Rich parents not enough
To get a listing in the Quote list of young self-made millionaires, you need a capital of at least 15 million euros as a person under 40. You must have earned that money yourself. Rich parents alone will not get you there.
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