Rank #2436
Doris Fisher
Net worth $1.7B
Gap · United States
- Born
- Aug 23, 1931
- Age
- 94
- Source
- Gap
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Doris Fisher cofounded clothing retailer Gap in 1969 with her husband, Don (d. 2009), after the couple struggled to find jeans that fit him.
- The couple raised $63,000 to open their first store, which sold jeans and music, in San Francisco.
- Doris Fisher served as the company's merchandiser from the day it opened until 2003 and sat on Gap's board until 2009.
- The 1953 Stanford economics graduate cofounded the KIPP Foundation, which supports public charter schools, donating $15 million.
- Gap is short for "generation gap." The Fishers agreed on the name after Doris nixed her husband's original idea, "Pants and Discs."
- The Fishers amassed a $1 billion art collection, including works by Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter, now on display in San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art.
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