He’s larger than life, and even Bloomberg has said of him: “…the onetime stand-up comic turned all-around media mogul is a man on a mission.” And that is a fact. But to understand Byron Allen, you have to go back to his roots. Growing up in The Motor City, the Detroit-born and raised founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Allen Media Group (AMG) fondly remembers middle-of-the-night drives to Ford Motor Company to drop his dad off at work in the factory. As a kid, he was fascinated by the industrialists that shaped the United States. Studying how they built their vertically integrated businesses was far more than a pastime for Allen; it was a passion that would one day enable him to see that show business, in actuality, is ‘business show,’ as he calls it.