America's youngest woman billionaire has no college degree and is a hot-rod-racing speed junky who makes her money running her family's burger joint, according to Bloomberg News.
Lynsi Torres, the 30-year-old president of the In-N-Out Burger restaurant chain, earned her money the old fashioned way. She inherited it. It, as in the family business that grew from a small drive-through burger stand that opened in 1948 to a company now worth over a billion dollars.
Known for its Double-Double cheesburgers, In-N-Out has roughly 280 units in five states with sales of about $625 million in 2012. Torres currently owns fifty percent of the private company through a trust and will own it in its entirety when she turns 35. She has no degree and little managerial training, the report says.
Torres, who apparently is media shy, has a thing for high speed cars and is commonly seen racing on drag strips. The young billionaire has competed in the National Hot Rod Association's Super Gas and Top Sportsman Division 7 categories, according to the NHRA. She drives a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda and a 1984 Chevrolet Camaro.
She isn't cheap either, it's reported that in September she spent $17.4 million on a 16,600-square-foot mansion in Bradbury, California. The mansion has seven bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, a pool, and tennis court.
Oddly, there is no racetrack on the property.
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