Sam Wyly
Sam Wyly was raised in small-town Louisiana. In 1957, he got his
MBA from the University of Michigan and began his career as a
salesman for IBM and then a manager for Honeywell. Six years later,
at the age of 28, Wyly was out on his own, creating his first
company, University Computing, which married computer technology
services to telephone technology to serve first local businesses
and then multinational companies in the United States and Europe.
This became the first of six enterprises that Wyly grew to over $1
billion valuations. Over the next fifty years, Wyly became one of
America's top multiple entrepreneurs, building companies in
industries ranging from oil and gold mining to arts and crafts,
from software to budget steakhouses and clean electricity. Wyly is
a philanthropist, an avid reader, and a family man. He resides in
Dallas and in Aspen with his wife, Cheryl, and has six children,
twelve grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Wyly's memoir,
1,000 Dollars & an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire, was published
in 2008, and his illustrated business biography, Beyond Tallulah by
Dennis Hamilton, came out in 2011.
Andrew Wyly
Andrew Wyly is an entrepreneur, investor, and film producer. Born
and raised in Los Angeles, California, with some schooling in
Switzerland, he has been a Texan by choice since 2004. After
earning a bachelor's degree in history from Denison University,
Andrew worked as a sales agent for Green Mountain Energy and
managed a portfolio for a hedge fund. He has continued his interest
in political economics through participation with several think
tanks. In 2007, he created the Andrew Wyly Film Company. Blood
Shot, his first feature film, was completed last year. Walter
Isaacson Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been
chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the
author of Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin
Franklin: An American Life and Kissinger: A Biography. He lives in
Washington, D.C.
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