Rank #284
Dan Friedkin
Net worth $11.3B
Toyota dealerships · United States
- Born
- Feb 27, 1965
- Age
- 61
- Source
- Toyota dealerships
- Residence
- Houston, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Georgetown University; Master of Business Administration, Rice University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Dan Friedkin owns Gulf States Toyota, which sold $13 billion worth of Toyotas in 2025.
- The company, based in Houston, has exclusive rights to distribute Toyota vehicles in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
- His father Thomas, who started the business in 1969, died in March 2017.
- Through The Friedkin Group, he also owns luxury hospitality management firm Auberge Resorts, which has properties in Aspen and Cabo San Lucas.
- NEON, his film studio, won four Academy Awards for "Parasite" in 2020, produced Martin Scorsese's 2023 drama "Flowers Of The Killer Moon" and won five Oscars in 2025 for "Anora".
- In December 2024, The Friedkin Group acquired fellow billionaire Farhad Moshiri's majority stake in Everton Football Club, the English soccer team.
- His Friedkin Conservation Trust is working to preserve more than 6 million acres in Tanzania.
- Friedkin owns one of the largest collections of vintage military war planes in the country.