Rank #1326
Alexandr Wang
Net worth $3.2B
artificial intelligence · United States
- Born
- Jan 19, 1997
- Age
- 29
- Source
- artificial intelligence
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Drop Out, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Net worth over time
Biography
- Alex Wang cofounded Scale AI in 2016 to help companies put their raw data to work for AI and machine learning.
- He served as CEO of Scale AI until June 2025, when Meta acquired 49% of the company in a deal that valued Scale at around $29 billion and Wang left Scale to become Meta's chief AI officer.
- Wang was the world's youngest self-made billionaire until October 2025, when he was overtaken by Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan.
- A New Mexico native, Wang landed full time engineering jobs in Silicon Valley at age 17 with fintech Addepar and then question-and-answer site Quora.
- At age 19, after a brief stint at MIT to study machine learning, Wang dropped out to attend the Y Combinator accelerator and launch Scale.
- Wang, the son of weapons physicists, grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the sleepy town where the U.S. developed its first atomic bomb during World War II.
- He entered his first math contest in 6th grade intent on winning a trip to Disney. He did - and later competed in physics Olympiads and science bowls.