David Green & family

A preacher's son from a poor background, Hobby Lobby founder David Green opened his first crafts shop in 1970 with a $600 loan.

His empire has grown from a single 300-square-foot store in Oklahoma City to 957 locations in 46 states, with $6.4 billion in 2020 sales.

A devout Christian, he still serves as Hobby Lobby's CEO and goes to work six days a week.

He won a 2014 Supreme Court case that exempted "closely held" companies with strong religious beliefs from providing employees the morning-after pill.

Green and his family spent $500 million on the Museum of the Bible, which opened in D.C. in 2017.

The Museum, chaired by Green's son Steve, has had to return thousands of smuggled artifacts to Egypt and Iraq.