Hank Asher
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Hank Asher (born May 9, 1951) is a businessman with a reported fortune of around US$500 million earned as the founder of several data mining companies that compile personal information about individuals from different electronic databases.

Asher dropped out of school at the age of 16 and worked as a draftsman in a local factory. Later he worked in a union job painting radio towers, with a house painting business on the side. Asher moved to Florida to avoid the seasonal shutdown in painting, soon establishing a business painting condominiums on Florida's Gold Coast. By the age of 21, he had 100 painters working for him and was reportedly grossing US$10 million a year.


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