18. Ernest Garcia II
Company: Carvana, DriveTime
Net Worth: $16.5 billion*
Ernest Garcia II is perhaps one of the most fascinating people on this list. He owns DriveTime, a car financing and retail company, and he also has a major stake in Carvana, another car retail business. Garcia II is a University of Arizona alum, and his net worth is nearly $17 billion.
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He is also a convicted felon, believe it or not. Garcia II pled guilty in 1990 to a felony bank fraud charge after he acted as a straw borrower during the collapse of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association. Garcia II filed for bankruptcy, but that didn’t stop him from bouncing back a year later. He bought a rent-a-car franchise that had gone bankrupt and revived it, becoming richer than he was before the felony conviction.