Silicon Valley has always been fertile ground for executives to be rich and world-famous.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Gary Kovacs of Mozilla, and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn are a few of the many world-famous CEOs who owe it all to the Silicon Valley.

Thanks to Internet businesses, the Valley has created some unknown but rich CEOs in the last few years.

Sahil Lavingia, Josh Buckley, and Tim Chae are three of the young CEOs in Silicon Valley whose passion, diligence, and ambition brought success in life.

Check out how these lesser-known CEOs made their lives different in Silicon Valley.

Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad.
Sahil Lavingia, 19, chief executive officer (CEO) of Gumroad, an online payments company he started, poses for a photograph in his home which doubles as his office in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco February 17, 2012.Lavingia, who was born in New York and grew up in places like London, Hong Kong and Singapore, 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. Reuters
Josh Buckley, CEO of Minomonsters
Minomonsters Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Josh Buckley, who turns 20 on February 21, poses for a photograph at his company at The Mint in San Francisco February 17, 2012.Buckley sold a previous company for a low six figures when he was still in high school in Maidstone, England, and his current company is backed by big-name venture-capital firms. Reuters
Tim Chae, CEO of 500 Startups
Tim Chae poses for a photograph where he attends "500 Startups," a crash course for young companies run by a funding firm of the same name, in Mountain View February 16, 2012.Chae, 20, a Babson College dropout, has raised a small amount of capital for his company Post Rocket and is seeking more and hoping the upcoming Facebook IPO will help investors look more kindly on all young entrepreneurs. Reuters
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