Diane Hendricks had a child at age 17, beat cancer twice and survived the tragic death of her husband on her way to becoming the nation’s richest self-made woman. She has tripled her net worth to more than $12 billion in the last five years and still has big plans ahead.
Diane Hendricks had a child at age 17, worked as a Playboy Bunny to pay her bills, beat cancer twice and survived the tragic death of her husband before transforming herself into the nation’s most successful businesswoman. She has tripled her net worth in the last five years to more than $12 billion. Next: fixing the country’s schools and infrastructure before we red, white and blow it.is just about ready to sit down for a video interview when she makes a last-minute dash to her walk-in closet.
Green Acres: “I love living here in nature. It’s very peaceful,” says Hendricks, shown on her Wisconsin estate with a Clydesdale, Rock, who weighs 1,000 pounds and eats up to 50 pounds of hay a day.roofing distributor, ABC Supply, and “American Pride” is one of the company’s seven core values. A video set to country singer Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” is shown to all company managers; Greenwood often sings it live at company events.
At 75, Hendricks is leaning into her success. She wants to influence everything from national politics and job creation to cancer research and public school reform. “Everyone knows I am a conservative,” says Hendricks, who has donated more than $40 million since 1992 That work ethic was born on her family’s dairy farm in Osseo, Wisconsin, a rural town just southeast of Eau Claire with a population of barely 1,800. The fourth of nine girls, Hendricks wasn’t allowed to milk cows or ride a tractor , but she had plenty of chores, including taking care of her younger sisters. By age 10, Hendricks knew she wanted more than an agricultural life. “I don’t want to be a farmer and I don’t want to marry a farmer,” she remembers thinking.
The company hit $1 billion in sales in 1998, the same year the Hendrickses recruited David Luck, a Bridgestone executive from Chicago, to become ABC’s president. With Luck at the helm, the couple looked to add new projects. “She and my dad had a passion for fixing failing companies, so they bought many out of bankruptcy and foreclosure,” says Konya Hendricks-Schuh, one of her seven children .
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