T. Boone Pickens was a wildcatter, corporate raider, hedge fund founder, and billionaire philanthropist.
In a career that started with Phillips Petroleum, Pickens later pursued clean energy projects in wind power and natural gas.
over the years, including hundreds of millions to his alma mater, Oklahoma State University, which named its renovated stadium after him. As a 12-year-old paperboy, Pickens started out with 28 customers, but by acquiring adjacent routes one at a time he quadrupled his business. for projects in the Texas Panhandle, and later establishing Altair Oil & Gas for exploration in western Canada. The companies became Mesa Petroleum, which Pickens took public in 1964 and became one of the largest independent oil and gas companies in the United States."Pickens was one of thousands driving around the oil states, using public phone booths as their offices, hustling, looking at deals.
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