Vitalik Buterin enters Top 10 influential businessmen under 40

Vitalik Buterin, 23, Canadian with Russian origins, the founder of Ethereum and its current lead developer, is in the tenth place in the list of most influential young entrepreneurs in the world composed by Fortune. His project reached the capitalization of almost $30 billion, while during the last year it was merely $1 billion. Fortune compares this tremendous success to Snapchat and Airbnb evolution.

He holds this place together with Brian Armstrong, the chief executive of Coinbase, the prominent American cryptocurrency exchange. Emmanuel Macron, the current President of France, holds the first place.

The success of Vitalik Buterin has attracted financial and governmental institutions so big he couldn’t even imagine, as he admitted in his recent AMA. For example, he recently had a short positive dialogue with the President of Russian Federation.