Bill Dallas has spent more than 40 years building, scaling, and selling mortgage companies. He founded First Franklin in 1981 with $10,000 and a basement office. He grew it into one of the nation's largest nonprime lenders and sold it three times, the last to Merrill Lynch. He built OwnIT Mortgage Solutions into a $1 billion-a-month originator, acquired Skyline Home Loans during the 2009 financial crisis, and took Finance of America public in 2021. Through Dallas Capital, he now advises founders and executives navigating growth, transition, and the patterns that quietly stall the businesses they built. He has been involved in more than 30 companies spanning mortgage banking, fintech, education, and consumer products.
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