a year later, wright forms international management associates, or i.m.a., to operate hedge funds. calvin paris, the father of one of wright's harvard classmates, invests $100,000 with wright in november 1999. >> that got into his investments for the month of december, and when i got my monthly market value for december, i had $145,000. >> narrator: an unbelievable increase in one month. the market is hot, but wright's return is astronomical. wright's financial prowess does not go unnoticed. >> he got introduced through mutual friends and investors to these two guys in atlanta who were anesthesiologists who had an entrepreneurial bent and were looking for a place where they could branch out a little bit more from the business of being doctors. >> narrator: within a year, the two anesthesiologists are not only invested, they persuade wright to relocate to atlanta. >> the city had grown by a third in population from 1990 to 2000. there was a lot of business opportunity, but there was a very high cultural comfort level for people who were black and young professionals. >> narrator: as