decided she wanted to work in the business world. It took years to achieve that goal, and decades for her career to build a fortune.list for the seventh consecutive year. Her estimated $20.9 billion net worth comes largely from her roofing materials company ABC Supply, which she co-founded with her late husband Ken Hendricks in 1982.Hendricks, now 77, and Ken started the company after realizing there were precious few one-stop shops for roofing materials made by different manufacturers,in 2022.
The secret to their success, Hendricks said, was filling a gap in the market — and raising the standard of respect and professionalism in contracting. Growing up on a farm in Osseo, Wisconsin, Hendricks dreamed of moving to a big city — Minneapolis, specifically — where she could wear blue suits and drive fancy cars, she said.
"That's when I really started to look at a career, a career I'd always dreamt of having, which was being in business," said Hendricks.