The technology world is witnessing massive changes, and it is mostly youngsters who are driving these changes.
Let's have a look at some young Silicon Valley's chief executive officials.
He is standing in front of a mural along the street near his home, which doubles as his office in the Soma neighbourhood of San Francisco, United States.
Lavingia was born in New York and grew up in places like London, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He dropped out of the University of Southern California to work at online bulletin board company Pinterest.
He also developed the Turntable.fm app for the iPhone.
His products include Dayta, that's a data tracking application for iPhone, and Rmmbr, a note-taking web app that doesn't require registration.
Lavingia has created more than 20 products.
Josh Buckley
Age: 20
CEO: Minomonsters
Buckley is a British technology businessman and entrepreneur.
Buckley sold a previous company for a low six figures when he was still in high school in Maidstone, England.
His current company is backed by big-name venture-capital firms.
Buckley was born and raised in Kent, England. He was selected in Forbes Magazine's Forbes 30 under 30 in January 2012.
After graduating high school in 2010, Buckley moved to Santa Clara, California, to participate in Y Combinator.
His company MinoMonsters is building the next Pokemon, says Forbes..
Tim Chae
Age: 20
CEO: Post Rocket
Chae works at his computer where he attends "500 Startups," a crash course for young companies run by a funding firm of the same name, in Mountain View. California.
He is hoping the upcoming Facebook IPO will help investors look more kindly on all young entrepreneurs.
He says on his website that he first dove into trade and commerce when he was nine years old.
Having just immigrated from my birthplace of Seoul, South Korea, I needed to connect with my peers in a way that would bridge my language barrier of not being able to speak or understand English, he says.
After spending all of the $300 grant from my parents on trying to create my own clothing line at the age of 15 and only selling a handful of T-shirts, I was devastated, says Chae.
During his senior year at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, California, he was fortunate enough to win some scholarships.
But, instead of putting that towards his upcoming expensive tuition at Babson, he decided to start his first major startup called nuFlw Entertainment.
It was with nuFlw that he got his first crack at managing employees and staff as he hired around 30 staff members, including managers, security, DJs, and promoters.
In his second semester of freshman year at Babson, he got his first exposure in corporate entry-level and internship recruiting.
He says no corporate recruiter wanted to talk to a freshman and college counsellors were just as quizzical about meeting with a 18-year-old.
He says startup life isn't glamorous as it seems.
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