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Forbes Daily Briefing

By The Numbers: Meet The Forbes Under 30 Class Of 2025

Forbes Daily Briefing

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Careers, Business, News, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Backed by billions of dollars, hundreds of millions of social fans and from cities across the country. Forbes crunched the numbers on our annual Under 30 list.

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Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, December 5th.

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Today on Forbes, By the Numbers, Meet the Forbes Under 30 Class of 2025.

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Our 14th annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list was revealed earlier this week.

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For the visionaries featured in this 30 under 30 class, the only constant is

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change, and this year we changed the way we list them as well. Every company is a tech company

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now, so we swapped out the enterprise and consumer tech categories for AI and transportation.

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What hasn't changed is the outsized influence of 2025's under 30 honorees.

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They're inventing new tech to treat tumors,

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expanding access to electric vehicle charging,

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making credit cards more secure,

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and even dreaming of reflective satellites that could bring the sun out at night.

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To identify this standout group,

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Forbes editors worked with expert judges, including musician

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Big Sean, journalist Kara Swisher, America's richest self-made woman, Diane Hendricks, baller

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Missy Copeland, and billionaire venture capitalist Jim Breyer, among others, to review more than

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10,000 candidates, evaluating them on impact, financials,

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and creativity.

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The result?

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600 young leaders steering the future of business and culture in 20 different industries.

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Take 28-year-old Aidan Gomez, who's building Cohere, a $940 million-backed startup that makes custom gen AI chatbots for companies

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like Tech Giant Oracle and Unicorn Notion. Demiguo, who is 26 years old, is another AI standout.

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Her platform, Pika, can turn a simple text prompt or still photo into a film,

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