{"id":175992,"date":"2026-01-09T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/a-wealth-of-18-billion-dollars-at-the-age-of-38-who-is-edwin-chen-the-new-leader-of-the-forbes-millionaire-ranking\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:00:11","slug":"a-wealth-of-18-billion-dollars-at-the-age-of-38-who-is-edwin-chen-the-new-leader-of-the-forbes-millionaire-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/a-wealth-of-18-billion-dollars-at-the-age-of-38-who-is-edwin-chen-the-new-leader-of-the-forbes-millionaire-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"A wealth of 18 billion dollars at the age of 38: who is Edwin Chen, the new leader of the Forbes millionaire ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vive.click\/a-wealth-of-18-billion-dollars-at-the-age-of-38-who-is-edwin-chen-the-new-leader-of-the-forbes-millionaire-ranking\/\">A wealth of 18 billion dollars at the age of 38: who is Edwin Chen, the new leader of the Forbes millionaire ranking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vive.click\/a-wealth-of-18-billion-dollars-at-the-age-of-38-who-is-edwin-chen-the-new-leader-of-the-forbes-millionaire-ranking\/\">https:\/\/vive.click\/a-wealth-of-18-billion-dollars-at-the-age-of-38-who-is-edwin-chen-the-new-leader-of-the-forbes-millionaire-ranking\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-09 13:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"vive.click\">vive.click<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forbes has published a &#8220;self-made&#8221; millionaire ranking for individuals under 40 who have built their fortunes from scratch without inheritance.<\/li>\n<li>Edwin Chen, a 38-year-old data analysis specialist, now tops the Forbes list with a net worth of $18 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Chen founded Surge AI in 2020, an AI company providing services to major tech firms, generating $1.2 billion in revenue in 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Previously, Mark Zuckerberg led the Forbes list for 11 consecutive years until he turned 40, missing the age cut-off.<\/li>\n<li>Chen\u2019s AI-driven data labeling company, Surge AI, is crucial in training various AI models and aims to facilitate the development of general artificial intelligence. <\/li>\n<li>Chen, who grew up in Florida and is known for his strict health regime and low media profile, self-financed Surge AI with savings from his previous employment at Twitter, Google, and Facebook.<\/li>\n<li>Forbes highlights the rapid emergence of young billionaires driven by the rise of artificial intelligence, with Chen credited for creating a significant impact in this field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wealth of 18 billion dollars at the age of 38: who is Edwin Chen,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/vive.click\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1361184-a-wealth-of-18-billion-dollars-at-the-age-of-38-who-is-edwin-chen-the-new-leader-of-the-fo69614f87ede34","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-175992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175994,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175992\/revisions\/175994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}