David Green

David Green is an American businessman and the founder of Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts and crafts stores.

• A preacher’s son from a poor background, Hobby Lobby founder David Green opened his first crafts shop in 1970 with a $600 loan.
• His empire has grown from a single 300-square-foot store in Oklahoma City to 850 locations in 46 states, with $5 billion in sales.
• A devout Christian, he still serves as Hobby Lobby’s CEO and goes to work six days a week.
• He won a 2014 Supreme Court case that exempted “closely held” companies with strong religious beliefs from providing employees the morning-after pill.
• Green and his family spent $500 million on the Museum of the Bible, which opened in D.C. in 2017.