Austin Russell became a billionaire at the age of 25 after his self-driving car company Luminar LAZR, -5.10% went public in 2020. Now 26, Russell joins a short list of people who have amassed a billion-dollar fortune before turning 30.

He founded Luminar in 2012 when he was still a teenager, leaving Stanford University to focus on his company.

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