Jimmy Haslam

Jimmy Haslam is the CEO of Pilot Flying J, a truck stop company founded in 1958 by his father who paid $6,000 for an existing gas station in Virginia.In October 2017, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced it would acquire 39% of Pilot for a reported $2.7 billion and then another 41% by 2023.Though Pilot admitted to defrauding its customers in a $92 million settlement with the DOJ in July 2014, its sales hit $19.6 billion in 2016.In 2012, he became the majority stakeholder of Cleveland Browns for roughly $990 million. His share is now worth more than $1.6 billion.Jimmy joined the board in 1975 when he was 20 and a senior at the University of Tennessee, and the company's annual sales were about $50 million.