John Malone

John Carl Malone is an American billionaire businessman, landowner and philanthropist. He was chief executive officer of Tele-Communications Inc., a cable and media giant, for twenty-four years from 1973 to 1996.

• Nicknamed the Cable Cowboy, John Malone is known for his penchant for media deals and complicated corporate structures.
• From the 1970s to the 1990s, Malone built up cable TV firm TCI as right hand man to founder Bob Magness (d. 1996).
• Malone became the CEO of TCI 1973 at 29 years old, then sold the firm to AT&T for more than $50 billion in 1999.
• His Liberty Media, which owns the Atlanta Braves baseball team, closed a $4.4 billion acquisition of auto-racing league Formula 1 in January 2017.
• In 2018, Malone retired from the boards of telecom giant Charter Communications and entertainment firm Lions Gate.