Taylor Swift, Rihanna And The Richest Self-Made Women Under 40 In America

For most people, success is built over a few decades. But the youngest members on Forbes’ 2023 list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women harnessed their passion, worked hard and achieved their dreams at notably young ages.

Of the 100 members on this year’s ranking of the richest, most successful self-made women entrepreneurs, executives and entertainers in the U.S., just 11 are women under 40.

That number hasn’t changed since last year, but some of the names have, as newcomers broke into the ranks and some others fell below the cut.

Kylie Jenner, at age 25, is the youngest person on the list for the sixth consecutive year, meaning she made her debut at age 20. A member of the Kardashian-Jenner family, the reality TV star and cosmetics entrepreneur clocks in at No. 38 this year worth an estimated $680 million, up from $600 million at No. 41 in 2022. She built up her customer base for Kylie Cosmetics by tapping into her huge social media following–now at 392 million followers on Instagram alone.

Only one other person on the list is in her 20s: Lucy Guo. Guo, 28, studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University but dropped out to become a Thiel Fellow and then worked at Snapchat. She made the Forbes Under 30 list in 2018, two years after she cofounded AI firm Scale AI. She’s now the CEO and founder of Passes, a web3 platform for creators.

New to the 2023 ranks are three thirty-something entrepreneurs: 36-year-old Christina Cacioppo, 38-year-old Iman Abuzeid and 39-year-old Julia Cheek. Cacioppo cofounded security and compliance automation company Vanta in 2017 and has led it as CEO since then; private investors value the firm at $1.6 billion. Abuzeid, who attended medical school in the U.K. and later moved to the U.S. for a job at a consulting firm, is the cofounder of health care staffing company Incredible Health, which helps connect nurses with open positions at hospitals. In 2015 Cheek founded Everly Health, an at-home testing company, out of her frustration at having to pay thousands of dollars for lab testing to diagnose issues related to vitamin and hormone imbalances. It now makes 30 different health and wellness tests and had estimated revenue of $250 million last year.

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