52-year-old worked 90-hour weeks in an oil refinery to save money for his business—now he's worth $9.5 billion

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Todd Graves, the co-founder and co-CEO of Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, is an unlikely billionaire. Here’s how he built his business.

When Todd Graves and Craig Silvey came up with the idea for a restaurant in southern Louisiana that only sold chicken fingers, they probably didn't expect to get the lowest grade in a startup-pitching assignment for Silvey's LSU undergraduate business class — or to get rejected for bank loans when they tried to make it a reality., a ranking of America's richest people. He's reportedly the country's 107th-richest person, with an estimated net worth of $9.

"I want my kids in the business to be able to carry our values on after their mom and I are gone," said Graves."They can turn this into a worldwide business and continue to grow." As the company grew, Graves figured out how to recruit employees and develop leaders on the fly, he said:"I was building a plane while I was flying it."

 

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