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PROS Spent 40 Years Teaching Airlines What Every Seat Is Worth - Then Split the Company in Two
The Houston software veteran began with an overbooking algorithm, grew into a $330 million pricing platform and survived both a cloud rebuild and aviation's worst shock. Its new owner has now made a stark bet: the airline brain is more valuable on its own.
The Houston Warehouse That Sells You a Computer Twice
For 35 years, a family-run distributor on Bissonnet Street has made money on both ends of a computer's life - selling the hardware, then hauling it back to shred, wipe, and resell. Here's how the loop actually works.
BMC Software
BMC Software is a Houston-founded enterprise software company that builds the IT operations, service management, and mainframe automation tools that keep large organizations running. Founded in 1980 by three former Shell engineers, BMC has spent four decades turning the unglamorous work of keeping systems alive - monitoring, scheduling, patching, recovering - into automated, increasingly AI-driven products. Its flagship lines include Control-M (workload automation), the BMC AMI mainframe suite, and BMC Helix (service and operations management). Owned by KKR since 2018, BMC split into two focused companies, BMC and BMC Helix, in early 2025.