“Michigan State Walk-On Becomes Billionaire by Making Mortgages”
September 24, 2020
“Mat Ishbia, a former college basketball player who’s now the chief executive officer of United Wholesale Mortgage, is set to become a billionaire after the lender his father founded said it would go public in a deal that values the business at $16 billion.
Gores Holdings IV Inc., a special-purpose acquisition company, and other investors agreed to acquire a roughly 6% stake in Pontiac, Michigan-based United, giving it a valuation that would mark the largest deal in which a firm went public by combining with a so-called blank-check company. The SPAC is run by Alec Gores, the brother of private equity billionaire and Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores…”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michigan-state-walk-becomes-billionaire-185532074.html