Becoming Self Made

Diane Marie Hendricks is an American billionaire businesswoman and filmmaker from Wisconsin. She was married to now-deceased businessman Ken Hendricks. Hendricks was born and raised in Wisconsin who was the daughter of dairy farmers. She graduated from Osseo-Fairchild highschool in 1965 and had been divorced from her first husband for ten years when she met Ken Hendricks. In 1975 she started selling custom-built homes and Ken was a roofing contractor. They married and became business partners. In 1982, they used their lines of credit to secure a loan that enabled them to establish ABC Supply, a company that sells roofing, windows, gutters, and siding for residential and commercial buildings.  Diane Hendricks owns the Hendricks company and is the owner and chairperson of ABC Supply. In March 2012, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$2.8 billion; Forbes estimated it at $4.3 billion as of January 2017. In 2018, Diane was first America's Richest Self-Made Women considered by Forbes....

Alice Louise Walton is an American to the fortune of Walmart Inc. She is the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton and Helen Walton, and sister of S. Robson Walton, Jim Walton, and therefore the late John T. Walton. In September 2016 she owned over US$11 billion in Walmart shares and hence became self made women . As of May 2020, she was ranked as the 9th-richest person in the world and the richest woman in the world, with an estimated net worth of $56 billion. Walton was born in Newport, Arkansas. She was raised along with her 3 brothers in Bentonville, Arkansas, and graduated from Bentonville HS in 1966. She graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, with a B.A. in economics. Walton married a prominent Louisiana investment banker in 1974 at age 24, but they were divorced 2½ years later. According to Forbes Magazine, she married "the contractor who built her swimming pool" soon after, but they, too, divorced quickly. Walton has been involved in multiple automo...