Champions of Entrepreneurial Capitalism

War, pandemic and sluggish markets hit the world’s billionaires this year. There are 2,668 of them on Forbes’ 36th-annual ranking of the planet’s richest people—87 fewer than a year ago. They’re worth a collective $12.7 trillion—$400 billion less than in 2021.

Forbes' 30 Under 30 franchise is made up of young, creative and bold minds that prove the future of the world will be new, exciting and profoundly different. Meet the 600 revolutionaries in 20 industries changing the course—and the face—of business and society.

2021 marked our 18th year of the World's Most Powerful Women, the definitive audit of the foremost CEOs and iconic entrepreneurs, heads of state, pioneer philanthropists and policymakers who are solving for society’s most intractable problems.