What is Debbi Fields’ Net Worth?

Debbi Fields, an American entrepreneur and author, has a net worth of $200 million. She is best known as the founder of the snack food franchiser Mrs. Fields, which has expanded to over 750 locations in more than 20 countries since its launch in 1977. Fields has also written several cookbooks and was one of the first Oakland A’s ball girls in the ’60s, using her earnings to start her cookie business at age 13. She wed her first husband at 19 and launched her cookie company in Palo Alto, California, at age 20, while being a housewife.

Fields’ cookie baking business franchised in 1990 and was later sold in the early ’90s, but she remains the business’ spokeswoman. She is famous for her motto, “Good Enough Never Is”, and one of her cookbooks was the first to ever top the “New York Times” bestseller list.

Early Life and Education

Debbi Fields, born in Oakland, California, was the youngest of five daughters of a housewife mother and a Navy welder father. Growing up, she found her passion for baking cookies, which earned high praise from her family and friends. At the age of 13, Fields started taking odd jobs to help pay for her cookie ingredients, including working as a “ball girl” for the MLB team the Oakland Athletics. She attended Alameda High School, where she was named homecoming queen in her senior year. Fields then went on to attend the Los Altos Hills community college Foothill College for two years before attending Stanford University.