Reilley graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in finance and got his first job as a number cruncher in Conoco's Cheyenne, Wyoming office.
Broad graduated from business school in the early 1990s and had hoped to start a career in finance or biotech, but his employment prospects in those recessionary years were dim.
Amos Hostetter graduated from Harvard Business School in 1961 and convinced his employer, Boston-based Cambridge Capital, to finance a small cable television system in rural New Jersey.