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# 360 Don Hankey 

$7.90B

Real Time Net Worth
as of 12/22/2024

# 360 Don Hankey 

$7.90B

Real Time Net Worth
as of 12/22/2024
OccupationChair, Hankey Group
Source of WealthAuto Loans
Age81
ResidenceMalibu, California
Marital StatusMarried
Children4
EducationBS, University of Southern California
Age-Adjusted Net Worth$1.91B
Don Hankey
Don Hankey
United States
Net worth: $7.90B

Self-Made Score 

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Wealth History

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Biography

Early Life

Don Robert Hankey was born in Los Angeles, California on June 13, 1943 to a family involved in the car dealership business.
Began working in the automotive industry during his teenage years, starting as a lot boy and later becoming a salesman at his father's Ford dealership.
Acquired valuable hands-on experience washing and polishing cars and interacting with customers.
Graduated from the University of Southern California

Career

Took control of his father's Ford dealership in 1972, marking the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey.
Pioneered the extension of loans to individuals with poor credit, which evolved into his primary business venture.
Established the Hankey Group, a diverse auto services empire headquartered in Los Angeles.
Founded Westlake Financial Services, which specializes in providing subprime car loans, catering to customers with bad or no credit.
Expanded the Hankey Group to encompass various subsidiaries, including a real estate firm, a Toyota dealership, auto insurance, rental car, and dealer software companies.
Ventured into real estate investment, notably supporting developments like The One in Downtown Los Angeles.

Personal Life

Married with four children and resides in Malibu, California.
Maintains family ties within the business, with his son, Don Rufus Hankey, serving as chairman of Nowcom, a car-lending software developer, and other Hankey Group enterprises.
Demonstrates a commitment to both family and business, fostering a legacy of entrepreneurship.

Financial Status

The Hankey Group, with its flagship subsidiary Westlake Financial Services, manages assets valued at $22.5 billion.

Don Hankey's Wealth is Equivalent to:

6,079,292 Herman Miller Aeron Chairs

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1,494,229 Gold Bars (50 gram)

24K Solid 50g Gold Ingot

80,709 Tiny Homes

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How long would it take you to become as rich as Don Hankey?

If you started with $10,000 and invested an additional $500 each month at a 42.82% CAGR, it would take you 5 years to reach Don Hankey's net worth of $7.90B.

Is this realistic? It depends how closely the VIX-TA-Macro Advanced model performs to its history in the future. Since Grizzly Bulls launched on January 1, 2022, it's returned 67.72% compared to 25.94% for the S&P 500 benchmark.

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Don Hankey is very wealthy, but what's stopping you from reaching that same level of success? As summarized in our five fundamental rules to wealth building, becoming wealthy in a modern capitalist economy is not complicated. There's actually only three variables:

  1. Your starting capital
  2. Your earnings after expenses
  3. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of your savings

Most people start with zero or very little, so if you weren't born into wealth, don't fret! The majority of the fortunate folks listed in our Grizzly Bulls’ Billionaires Index came from middle class or lower backgrounds. The most distinguishing characteristic of the group is their ability to consistently earn a high CAGR on their savings.

Every billionaire has a unique strategy to achieve high CAGR. For Don Hankey, Auto Loans is the primary source. Whether you choose to invest your savings in your own businesses or the businesses of others is not as important. The salient piece of the puzzle is ensuring that your hard-earned savings are generating sufficient CAGR to reach your long term goals.

Most people simply invest their money in index funds and call it a day. There's nothing wrong with this approach, but it guarantees relative mediocrity. To achieve greatness, you need to invest your money to earn higher than average returns. In the long run, better investors will always finish ahead of better earners.

Source: Grizzly Bulls reporting

Methodology: Grizzly Bulls' Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world's billionaires and richest people. Grizzly Bulls strives to provide the most accurate net worth calculations available. We pull data from public equity markets, SEC filings, public real estate records, and other reputable sources.

The index is dynamic and updates daily at the close of U.S. stock market trading based on changes in the markets, economy, and updates to Grizzly Bulls' proprietary algorithm of personal wealth calculation. Stakes in public companies are tracked daily based on the relevant closing prices of the underlying securities. Additionally, stakes in private companies, cash, real estate, and other less easily valued assets are updated periodically through careful analysis of insider transactions, comparable public company sales / EBITDA multiples, etc.

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Edited by: Lee Bailey