Forbes regret awards to 30 fraudsters under 20.
The organisers of Forbes Hall of Fame has regretted given awards to some persons under 30 years who were later discovered to be fraudsters.
Forbes said in the last 13 years, it has published Under 30 List, which in the U.S., now has 20 different categories, or 600 total, each year. Add in the alumni from our Europe and Asia lists, we’ve honored more than 10,000 wunderkinds––and vetted some 100,000 candidates.
An astounding number of these folks have gone on to become cultural tastemakers, tech titans, even billionaires––32 of the latter, and counting.
But regrets, we’ve had a few. While our process correctly weeded out folks like Fyre Festival impresario Billy McFarland and, yes, even Elizabeth Holmes––one-time superstars who all wound up fraudsters––others slipped through. Below are 10, out of 10,000, that we’d like to walk back. We’ll add more here as the years go on––the 30 Under 30 list is, by definition, future-facing, and not even Warren Buffett can predict with 100 percent accuracy. But we’d guess he’d be good with 99.9%.
