Rick Caruso, son of the Dollar Rent-A-Car founder, founded the real estate company Caruso in 1987, chaired USC's board of trustees and ran for Los Angeles mayor in 2022.
John Jacob Astor built an American fur trade monopoly, exported opium to China and invested in New York real estate, becoming the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
Sam Zell, the Chicago-born son of Polish refugees who escaped on Sugihara visas, managed apartment buildings as a student and built a real estate and investment empire including EQ Office and Tribune Media.
Barbara Corcoran, once labeled the 'dumb kid' because of undiagnosed dyslexia, built The Corcoran Group into a New York real estate powerhouse and sold it for $66 million in 2001. She is an original Shark Tank investor.
