Sly grew up in Lakeland, FL. After receiving a scholarship to play football in 2007, Sly packed up and moved to Montana, before transferring the following semester to Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA to continuing his football career.

Sly’s passion of investing didn’t come until after college. In fact, his entire route was untraditional. After spending time as a high school football coach and a substitute teacher, he started a small training business. The gym he rented change his entire life. At this gym, he had the opportunity of meeting and training some of the most successful people in the field of business, finance and investing. This included private equity managers, hedge fund managers, real estate investors and so on.

These relationships berthed one of his first investment companies, Buford Properties, that flipped single family homes, followed by Elite Capital Partners which was a small cap private investment company that invested specifically into value add multifamily real estate.

Taking the lessons he’s learned, he now run Tenth Street Group where he help’s accredited investors access cash flowing small business investments in essential U.S. companies. Sly is also the author of The Hidden Upside: Unlocking Wealth in Small Business Investing where he talks about buying and investing in small businesses.

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