Summary
After researching telecommunications, energy, real estate and other industries, Street asked a friend who owned a Circle K convenience store franchise to back him in starting a new chain that was to be called EZ Street. The friend had little interest. About that same time in the mid-1980s, the owners of a small, failing Colorado Springs-based long-distance telephone firm asked Street to help turn their company around.
"I don't know where it came from, but I got it into my head when I went to college that I wanted to run my own business. I got an accounting degree and worked for Andersen to learn about the plumbing of the business world and get some experience, but I wasn't that interested in accounting," Street said. "After my partner flaked out on me, I decided that I could fix the phone company and get them to finance the convenience stores."See the full content of this document
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Story of Success
Street, now 53, and wife Mary Beazley instead turned what became Telephone Express Inc. into a $60 million-a-year company with better marketing, and by acquiring and merging with other long-distance providers. They sold the company in 1997 for more than $60 million. Then, Street helped start Internet Express, an early Internet access provider, and founded e-mail giant USA.Net Inc. and e-mail security provider MX Logic In...
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