Dallas

Business Owner · Airlines & Aviation

Herb Kelleher: Co-founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines

Herb Kelleher, a Texas lawyer, co-founded Southwest Airlines with Rollin King and fought four years of legal challenges, winning at the US Supreme Court in 1970, to launch low-cost service across the Texas Triangle.

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Business Owner · Energy, Oil & Gas

T. Boone Pickens: Financier and Corporate Raider

T. Boone Pickens was the best-known corporate raider of the 1980s and chaired BP Capital Management. He gave away more than $1 billion before his death in 2019.

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Business Owner · Sports & Entertainment

Mark Cuban: Entrepreneur and Former Owner of the Dallas Mavericks

Mark Cuban sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo! to become a billionaire, then bought the Dallas Mavericks and led them to the 2011 NBA title. He was a Shark Tank investor from 2012 to 2025.

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