Sam Wyly

Sam Wyly was raised in small-town Louisiana and got his MBA from the University of Michigan. His Road to Dallas was by plane from Monroe to Shreveport to Tyler to Love Field. He began his career as a salesman for IBM. At 28, he created his first company, University Computing Company, the first of six enterprises Wyly grew to over $1 billion valuations. Over the next fifty years, he became one of America’s top entrepreneurs, building companies in industries ranging from oil and gold mining to arts and crafts, from software to budget steakhouses, and clean electricity. Wyly resides in Dallas, and has six children, twelve grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. His other books include: 1,000 Dollars & An Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire; his business biography, Beyond Tallulah, by Dennis Hamilton; Texas Got It Right! with his son, Andrew Wyly; and The Immigrant Spirit: How Newcomers Enrich America.