Bridges has been on the Omaha investment scene since 1946. Edson Bridges' father, Marvin Bridges, started his investment business in Boston in 1945 after attending Harvard University's graduate business school. A lot of his clients were Omaha natives, and Bridges moved the company to Nebraska's largest city in 1946. In 1959, Edson joined the company; he, too, had a master's degree in business administration from Harvard. Ted Bridges joined in the 1980s after graduating from Westside High, from Dartmouth College with an economics degree and from the University of Nebraska College of Law.