Lynsi Snyder

As the Sole beneficiary of family trusts, she received control of the company's stock in its entirety on her 35th birthday, becoming the Sole owner.

In 2023, Snyder ranked No. 156 on the annual Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, with a net worth of $6.7 billion.

Snyder was born in San Dimas, California, to Lynda Lou (née Wilson) and Harry Guy Snyder, and spent her early childhood years at her parents' home in Glendora, California.

She is of Dutch descent on her father's side.

She has two older half-sisters (Traci and Teri) through her mother.

Traci is married to former In-N-Out President and COO Mark Taylor.

She is the only child of Lynda and H. Guy Snyder and the only grandchild of Harry and Esther Snyder, who founded In-N-Out in 1948.

She occupies the same leadership position that her grandfather Harry (1948–1976), uncle Rich (1976–1993), father Guy (1994–1999), and grandmother Esther (2000–2006) previously held.

Before Snyder became President of In-N-Out Burger, a taped message from her was broadcast to all company associates letting them know about the transition and the future of the company.

By the late 1980s, Snyder and her parents had moved to the small town of Shingletown, California, where they lived on a ranch.

While Snyder's uncle Rich successfully ran and expanded In-N-Out's business operations, Snyder's father struggled personally.

Throughout her childhood, he was often in rehab centers and hospitals due to his ongoing drug addiction.

Lynsi Lavelle Snyder-Ellingson (previously Seawell, Martinez, and Torres; born May 5, 1982) is an American billionaire businesswoman, the owner and heiress of the In-N-Out Burger company.

In 1993, Snyder's uncle Rich flew to see her in a school play; the following day, he attended the opening of In-N-Out store No. 93 in Fresno, California.

On his return home, he died in a plane crash.

When Snyder was 12, her parents separated due to her father's extramarital affair; their divorce was finalized in January 1997.

In 1999, Snyder's father died of congestive heart failure as a result of his excessive prescription drug use.

Snyder graduated from Shingletown Christian Academy, a private high school that her parents helped found, before relocating to Southern California with her first husband.

In the early 2000s, Snyder took auto-mechanics, engine performance, and diagnostics classes at Citrus College, her local community college, where she was one of the few women who received high grades.

As a teenager, Snyder's first job was working as a receptionist in a dental office owned by a friend of her father.

At age 17, she was hired at a new In-N-Out store in Redding, California, where she leafed lettuce, peeled potatoes, and sliced onions.

Only the store managers knew of Snyder's true identity; the other associates were initially unaware of her family ties to the company, due to Snyder's desire to be treated "normally."

In the 2000s, Snyder first took a job in In-N-Out’s corporate merchandising department and subsequently rotated through other departments as she learned the business.

During 2006, Snyder and In-N-Out were embroiled in a bitter lawsuit with Rich Boyd, a former company executive.

Boyd was fired for allegedly misusing company funds, but he claimed that Snyder, and then Vice-President Mark Taylor, were trying to oust the elderly Esther Snyder from the company.

Both Lynsi Snyder and Mark Taylor denied the claims, with Snyder saying the lawsuit “contains outright lies and awful inaccuracies to try to cover his own errors.

By far, the most upsetting is his fabrication about the relationship between me and my gramma.” The lawsuit was settled out of court in May 2006, less than three months before Esther's death.

Esther's signature was finally replaced with Lynsi's on associates' paychecks in 2009, three years after Esther's death.

Snyder is a proponent of the servant leadership style, and has repeatedly pledged to maintain her family's legacy by refusing to ever sell or franchise In-N-Out.

During her presidency, the number of In-N-Out locations has nearly doubled, from fewer than 250 stores to 400 as of December 2023, and the company now operates in eight states.

She has also continued the tradition started by her uncle Rich of including Bible verses on In-N-Out packaging, adding Proverbs 24:16 to the French fry containers, Luke 6:35 to the coffee cups and Isaiah 9:6 to the holiday cups.

In 2021, the Orange County Business Journal featured Snyder in the OC50, the annual listing of the 50 most influential executives in Orange County, and she was named the Los Angeles Business Journal 2021 Women’s Business Leadership Award’s CEO of the Year.

Since she began leading In-N-Out, Snyder has been consistently popular with the company's employees.

In 2021, her 96% approval rating on Glassdoor made her the highest-rated female CEO in the United States.

In 2023, Snyder released her first book,, which became a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

On January 1, 2010, Snyder became the sixth President of In-N-Out, succeeding her brother-in-law, Mark Taylor, who was promoted to become the company's Chief Operating Officer.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, in 2012, Snyder was the youngest American female billionaire.

Previously little known outside of her company, a then 30-year-old Snyder came to widespread public attention in 2013, when she was ranked a billionaire for the first time by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, based on an In-N-Out valuation of $1.1 billion.

Bloomberg also noted that she was the youngest female billionaire in North America.

That same year, she ranked No. 93 on Maxim's annual Hot 100 list.