Eric Langan is not the average CEO of a company listed on the NASDAQ. For one, he says he does not employ a pilot for his private jet, choosing instead the “ freedom ” of operating it himself so he can stay at one of his 60-plus businesses until 3 a.m. before flying back home to Houston. “It’s my car, that’s the way I look at it,” as he puts it . Another factor separating him from his peers is his company’s business: strippers.

Langan is the chief executive of RCI Hospitality Holdings, which includes the chain Rick’s Cabaret as well as Tootsie’s Cabaret in Miami, which advertises itself as the largest strip club in the world and once held the Christmas party for the LeBron-era Miami Heat. Some chains are larger than RCI, but it appears to be the only publicly traded strip-club compa

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