Alexandr Wang

Cofounder, Scale

$1.96B

as of 04/02/25

About Alexandr Wang

Alexandr Wang is the CEO of Scale AI, the startup he cofounded in 2016 to help companies put their raw data to work for AI and machine learning.

The California-based outfit helps some 300 clients, including General Motors and Flexport, on projects like autonomous driving and supply chain efficiency.

Wang, just 25, is the world's youngest self-made billionaire; he owns an estimated 15% of Scale, which was valued by investors at $7.3 billion in 2021.

The New Mexico native 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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

artificial intelligence

Residence

San Francisco, California

Marital status

Single

Birth date

01/19/97 (age 28)

Education

Drop Out, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Self-made

self-made

Alexandr Wang’s fortune is worth

33K

troy ounces of gold

30K

median U.S. household

20K

median U.S. income

0.039%

U.S. credit card volume

0.008%

GDP of the United States

0.006%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

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.