Lynsi Torres, the 30-year-old owner and president of In-N-Out Burger, is one of the youngest female billionaires on the planet, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index. 
 
 How did that happen? 
 
 She inherited the fast food chain after a series of deaths in the family, Seth Lubove at Bloomberg News reported. 
 
 In-N-Out was founded by her grandparents, Harry and Esther Snyder. Harry died in 1976 and one of his sons, Rich, took over. Rich died in a plane crash when he was 41, and Torres' father, Harry Guy Snyder, took over in 1993. Guy died in 1999 of a prescription drug overdose at the age of 49. Esther, Torres' grandmother, controlled In-N-Out until 2006, when she died at 86. 
 
 That left Torres as the only heir to In-N-Out. She currently has half ownership through a trust, but will get the entire company upon turning 35. 
 
 Torres doesn't have a college degree and is on her third marriage. Oh, and as Gawker's Hamilton Nolan noted, she's also a competitive drag racer. 
 
 She's pretty mysterious, too. Apparently, even people in the restaurant industry don't know much about her. 
 
 “I have no clue about her,” restaurant consultant Janet Lowder told Bloomberg. “I was even surprised there was a granddaughter.” 
 
 We do know that she owns a $17.4 million, 16,600-square-foot mansion in Bradbury, California. It has seven bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, and a whole bunch of amenities. ||||| Lynsi Snyder, president and sole heiress to In-N-Out. CBS Thirty-five-year-old Lynsi Snyder just gained full control of one of the most popular burger chains in the US: In-N-Out. 
 
 Snyder inherited 50% of In-N-Out's shares when she turned 30, and on Friday — her 35th birthday — she acquired the chain's remaining shares. 
 
 The inheritance makes her one of the youngest female billionaires in the country 
 
 In-N-Out, which has 324 restaurants in six states, was valued at $1.1 billion in 2013. 
 
 Snyder's grandparents opened the first In-N-Out in 1948 and she became president of the chain seven years ago. 
 
 Despite her public role as president, Snyder is famously reclusive and rarely talks to the press. 
 
 But in a video released in January, she offered some insight into her personal life. 
 
 She discussed her four marriages, the death of her father, and her past drug use in the 10-minute video, which was posted to the website Iamsecond.com. 
 
 After her grandfather died in 1976, Snyder's uncle, Rich Snyder, took over the company. He was at the helm until 1993, when he died in a plane crash. 
 
 Despite her public role as president of In-N-Out, Snyder is famously reclusive and rarely talks to the press. I Am Second Lynsi's father, Guy Snyder, then replaced his brother and remained in charge until 1999, when he died of a prescription-drug overdose. Lynsi was 17 at the time. 
 
 Seven years later, in 2006, Lynsi's grandmother died and Lynsi inherited control of the company. She became president four years later in 2010. 
 
 Since taking the position as president, Snyder has expanded In-N-Out to six states from four. She has changed almost nothing else about the brand, which prides itself on a simple menu of burgers and fries. 
 
 Snyder calls herself an "organized, careful leader," though she admits that she's also a thrill-seeker. 
 
 "I'm a lot like my dad, a little bit of a daredevil," she told Orange Coast Magazine last year. "I like an adrenaline rush. My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3. … Anything with a motor, that was in my blood." 
 
 She enjoys drag-racing and once pursued an amateur boxing career, according to the magazine. 
 
 Snyder's personal life 
 
 In the video released in January, Snyder talked about how her father, Guy Snyder, battled drug addiction and was in and out of rehab facilities from the time she was 5 years old. He later had an affair, and her parents divorced when she was 12. 
 
 "It was really hard for me to see him fail and be weak because I knew how bad he wanted to be a good husband and good father," she said. 
 
 Around the same time, in 1993, her father took control of In-N-Out from his brother. 
 
 Her father led the company until he died of the drug overdose in 1999. 
 
 "My world shattered," she said. "After my dad died there was no way I was going to be alone." 
 
 Snyder says she has been the victim of two attempted kidnappings. ABC News After her father's death, Snyder married her first husband. She was 18 years old. 
 
 "It wasn't right," she said. "I paid the price with a divorce and jumped right into the arms of someone else." 
 
 Then she said she started smoking pot and abusing alcohol. 
 
 "At that point, I pretty much realized I'm the outcast in the family," she said. "I figured, 'I'm divorced — I might as well embrace this.'" 
 
 She said she worried she would "meet an early death" like her father, and she eventually married again, had two children, and later had an affair. The marriage dissolved within six years, she said. 
 
 "I couldn't feel like a bigger failure at that point," she said. 
 
 She married a third time and had another child with a man she said married her for money and cheated on her for nearly four years before they divorced. 
 
 "The first time he cheated on me I thought, 'Well I deserve it,'" she said. "It was terrible." 
 
 Now, at 34, she is remarried and says she has finally found peace through religion. 
 
 Attempted kidnappings 
 
 Snyder says she has also been a victim of two attempted kidnappings. 
 
 In-N-Out, which has 324 restaurants in six states, was valued at $1.1 billion in 2013. Flickr/Ray Yu In her interview with Orange Coast, Snyder said the first kidnapping attempt happened when she was 17 and still in high school. The second time, she was 24 and working as a manager at In-N-Out. 
 
 "I ran across the highway," she told the magazine, adding that she knew her would-be kidnappers were suspicious because "they had a van with boarded-up windows." 
 
 When asked about her future plans for In-N-Out, Snyder told CBS she would "never" take the company public or franchise its restaurants. 
 
 "The only reason we would do that is for the money, and I wouldn't do it," Snyder said in the 2015 interview. 
 
 "My heart is totally connected to this company because of my family, and the fact that they are not here — I have a strong tie to keep this the way they would want it." ||||| Turning 35 years old isn’t usually much of a milestone. Unless you’re burger chain heiress Lynsi Snyder. 
 
 On her 35th birthday Friday, she receives the final portion of her inheritance, pushing her ownership of the West Coast-based In-N-Out Burger restaurant empire up to 97% and making her a billionaire, worth an estimated $1.3 billion. She’s been receiving stakes for the past decade, a slow investiture process laid out in a complex trust structure by her grandparents, Harry and Esther Snyder, who founded the chain. 
 
 Harry and Esther opened the first drive-thru burger stand in California in 1948 as America began to take to the road. Their sons, Guy and Richard, both took turns running In-N-Out, but both died young—Richard at 41 in a plane accident, and Guy at 48 from an accidental overdose of prescription hydrocodone. Lynsi, who was just 18 years old when her father Guy died, started getting more involved in the business, reportedly working in human resources and merchandising, though Esther controlled daily operations until she died at age 86 in 2006. Lynsi, who never graduated from college, was ready to take on the top job of president in 2010. 
 
 Lynsi has capitalized on In-N-Out’s cult following on the West Coast, expanding its locations by 29% to more than 320 since she took over. That includes moving into new regions for the first time, like Texas in 2011 and the Pacific Northwest, with an Oregon location in 2015. Estimated revenue, meanwhile, has climbed 57% to about $870 million, according to research firm Euromonitor. A spokesperson for In-N-Out declined to comment on the revenue estimate and said FORBES' estimate of Lynsi's net worth was "inaccurate," without providing further details. 
 
 Much of In-N-Out hasn’t changed since her grandmother’s day. It still doesn’t franchise its locations. The beloved burger chain keeps its menu simple, offering only burgers, shakes, fries and soda, as well as its secret menu, which includes options to order a burger wrapped in lettuce (called “protein style”), a grilled cheese (a cheeseburger without the meat) or a burger with caramelized onions (called “animal style”). Preparation remains traditional: heat lamps, microwaves and freezers are banned from the premises and employees still cut potatoes and separate lettuce daily, in-house. 
 
 Above all, though, Lynsi has said the company will never be acquired or go public. "The only reason you would do that is for the money, and I wouldn't do it," she told CBS News in 2015. "My heart is totally connected to this company because of my family and the fact that they're not here, you know. I have a strong tie to keep this the way they would want it." 
 
 Follow Chloe on Twitter and Instagram. ||||| Much to the chagrin of East Coasters, the folks at the helm of In-N-Out Burger haven't expanded the chain all the way across America. 
 
 Why's that? 
 
 The Orange Country Register managed to get a rare interview with with Lynsi Torres the 30-year-old owner and president of In-N-Out. 
 
 It comes down to a few things. 
 
 Franchising — In-N-Out adamantly refuses to franchise so that it can keep tight control over its operations. 
 
 "We're definitely not franchising, and we're not going to sell," Torres told the OC Register. So don't expect any mass expansion of In-N-Out any time soon. 
 
 Sourcing ingredients — All food at In-N-Out is fresh, and since there are no freezers or microwaves in the restaurants, every location needs to be near its distribution facilities, which are in Baldwin Park, CA, and Dallas, TX. 
 
 "Our focus (is) on quality. I think the customers really respect that," said Torres. 
 
 Brand — In-N-Out keeps tight control over its image. Its brand is elite and it depends on its rabid following of customers. If it suddenly expanded all over America, it'd lose some of that luster. 
 
 "We're not changing things like many other companies do," said Torres. "That's kept us unique; it's kept the customers feeling like we're not a sellout." 
 
 Since Torres' grandmother Esther Snyder died, In-N-Out has grown from 202 locations to 281, or approximately 6 percent a year. The chain is now in five states and has around 16,000 employees. 
 
 Torres has kept a low profile since taking the reins of the company, but was recently thrust into the spotlight when Bloomberg's Billionaires Index named her the youngest female billionaire in America.
– As far as company owners go, Lynsi Torres has to be among the most intriguing. A Bloomberg article attempts to put a finger on the mysterious In-N-Out Burger president who, at age 30, is one of the youngest female billionaires on the planet. As Seth Lubove reports, she ended up at the helm of the company, estimated by Bloomberg to be valued at $1.1 billion, by way of birth and more than a few tragic deaths: Her father took control after his 41-year-old brother died in a 1993 plane crash; he died after ODing on prescription drugs six years later. Torres' grandmother then grabbed the reins until her death in 2006, which left the company with a single heir: Torres, who gained 50% ownership after turning 30 in 2012; she'll claim the other half upon her 35th birthday. And things get more intriguing from there: She's been married three times and has twins, reports Lubove, but no college degree. She largely chooses not to give interviews, but her name quietly and occasionally pops up in the press: In September, she was reported to have purchased a $17.4 million 16-bathroom mansion in Bradbury, California; she's also a drag racer who competes in two National Hot Rod Association categories; and a 2009 Wall Street Journal article noted her "affinity for joining off-beat Christian sects." Business Insider has an image of the colorful heiress, and Bloomberg has more, including a rundown of a 2006 lawsuit a former VP filed against Torres, which claimed she was trying to wrest control of In-N-Out from her grandmother. Or click for another intriguing burger-chain story.