Buying a bank during a meltdown sounds like a bad idea until you hear what it takes to survive it. We talk with Triumph’s CEO about growing up in small-town Oklahoma, sprinting through Big Law, and then walking away from the safe path with a young family and almost no margin for error. What follows is a candid story of mentorship, risk, and the kind of pressure most founders only admit to after they’ve made it through. From there, we trace how Triumph goes from distressed-debt ambition...