Jimmy Haslam

$10.34B
as of 08/18/26

About Jimmy Haslam

Jimmy Haslam served as chairman of truck stop chain Pilot Flying J from 2021 until 2023.

His father, James A. Haslam II, started the company after paying $6,000 for a gas station in Virginia.

Haslam joined the board in 1975, when he was 20 and a senior at the University of Tennessee; Pilot's annual revenues were about $50 million at the time.

The Haslams sold Pilot to Berkshire Hathaway for a total of $13.6 billion across three purchases in 2017, 2023 and 2024.

In 2012, Haslam became the majority owner of the NFL's Cleveland Browns. He bought a minority stake in the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team in 2023.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Gas stations, retail

Residence

Knoxville, Tennessee

Marital status

Married

Birth date

03/09/54 (age 72)

Number of children

3

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Self-made

inherited and growing

Jimmy Haslam’s fortune is worth

172K

troy ounces of gold

159K

median U.S. household

103K

median U.S. income

0.207%

U.S. credit card volume

0.041%

GDP of the United States

0.03%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Haslam's brother Bill Haslam, also a billionaire, served as governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

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