No. 135United States
Todd Graves
Fast food · Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Net worth
$20.0B
Today
$00.00%Past month
$00.00%As of Nov 11, 2026, 1:50 PM EST
Todd Graves founded fried chicken finger fast-food chain Raising Cane's. Graves came up with the concept for a restaurant serving only chicken finger meals while in college. A professor gave his idea the lowest grade in the class and he couldn't get bank financing, so he worked as a boilermaker and salmon fisherman to save up cash. He launched Raising Cane's in 1996, using his savings and an SBA loan. It's now a fast-growing, $5.7 billion (sales) business serving chicken tenders across some 900 locations in 42 states.
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Principal holdings
1 positions| Company | Industry | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Private holdings | Food & Beverage | 100.0% | $20.0B |
Also known for
- Graves named his business after his yellow lab, Raising Cane.
- Graves owns a 66-million-year-old triceratops skeleton, Harrison Ford's Raiders of the Lost Ark jacket and a pair of Elvis Presley's sunglasses.
“When you're an entrepreneur and you believe in something to your core, you use every no and every 'it's not going to work' as fuel. It's the best thing that can happen to you.”