Thomas Tull never waited for the cavalry to arrive. He learned early that the world rewards those who take responsibility for their own future. That belief has carried him from mowing lawns and shoveling snow in upstate New York as a child to building billion-dollar companies and investing in the most advanced frontiers of technology, sports, and energy.
He grew up in a small, working-class home in Endwell, New York, the son of a young single mother who worked two jobs to support him and his two sisters. His grandmother spent half a century cleaning hospital floors. "The cavalry is not coming," Tull recalled in a recent interview. "You have to take care of the things you need to take care of yourself."
