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Boone Pickens, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, founded Mesa Petroleum Co. in 1956. Until 1996, when he left the company, Mesa was one of the world's largest independent oil-and-gas companies, in addition to being known for its corporate-control contests for Gulf Oil, Phillips and Unocal. Pickens graduated as a geologist from Oklahoma State University and worked with Phillips Petroleum Co. before striking out on his own. Upon leaving Mesa, he founded BP Capital, which manages one of the nation's most successful energy-oriented investment funds. Pickens also pursues other business interests, from water marketing and ranch development initiatives to Clean Energy, a company he founded to advance the use of natural gas as an alternative transportation diesel. He has given more than $100 million to Oklahoma State, $10 million to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and $6 million to the American Red Cross, as well as contributions to the Wilmer Eye Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Scottish Rite Children′s Hospital and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. His updated autobiography, Boone, was a New York Times best seller.

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A Conversation with Boone Pickens

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