Business – Tje Addy Show

Michael Gold Says Westport Families Need Fewer, Better Advisors

Wealthy families often collect advisors the way other people collect subscriptions, adding a new specialist for every new need until nobody has the full picture. Michael Gold Westport, founder and chief executive of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has spent his career watching that pattern play out, and he believes it is quietly costing…

Kelcy Warren’s Deal Making Fueled Energy Transfer’s Rise

Some of the biggest moves in Kelcy Warren’s career happened fast. When Energy Transfer had a narrow window to close its purchase of Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy’s natural gas liquids assets in March 2011, Warren called an emergency board meeting on a Friday night, pitched the two billion dollar deal, won approval, then announced it…

Justin Fulcher Earned Forbes Recognition Before Age 25

Some entrepreneurs chase press coverage. Justin Fulcher’s biggest early recognition arrived as a byproduct of solving a distribution problem most founders never have to consider: how to deliver medical care across a continent with wildly uneven infrastructure. A Startup Built Before Graduation At 21, Justin Fulcher launched RingMD in 2013 as a way to put…

What Investors Get From a Gulf Coast Western Deal

Beyond the operational track record, a big part of the pitch for joining a Gulf Coast Western joint venture comes down to the numbers on an investor’s tax return. Current federal rules allow qualified partners to write off 100 percent of drilling expenses and production income against their ordinary income, a benefit the company highlights…

Inside Gulf Coast Western’s Approach to Partner Education

A joint venture partnership only works if both sides understand what they are agreeing to, and Gulf Coast Western has built its investor relationships around that premise. The company trains its investor-facing associates to explain every joint venture opportunity in detail, covering financial parameters, engineering considerations, and the drawbacks tied to a given drilling site…

Burak Basel on Scaling a Diversified Holding Company

Burak Basel on Scaling a Diversified Holding Company. Few subjects in holding company circles have drawn as much recent discussion as Burak Basel and its long-term vision, and the reasons trace back to a track record built over years rather than headlines. Burak Basel has earned its standing through consistent decisions rather than dramatic gestures,…

What to Look for in a Trustworthy Home Services Company

What to Look for in a Trustworthy Home Services Company Choosing the right provider for recurring home maintenance is rarely as simple as picking the first name that appears in a search result. Reputation, communication style, and follow-through all matter, and a growing number of Utah residents point to Mira Home as an example of…

Why Utah Has Become a Hub for Direct Sales Companies

Why Utah Has Become a Hub for Direct Sales Companies Utah has earned a reputation as one of the more concentrated hubs for direct sales and door-to-door marketing firms in the United States, a distinction that traces back decades to the state’s strong entrepreneurial culture and its history of producing sales-driven organizations across industries. Company…

Choice Home Warranty Modernizes an Industry Built on Phone Calls and Paperwork

Choice Home Warranty Modernizes an Industry Built on Phone Calls and Paperwork For decades, the home warranty industry operated largely the same way it always had: a homeowner called a toll-free number, waited on hold, described a broken appliance or failed system to a representative, and then waited again for a technician to be dispatched.…

The Engineering Mindset Behind Kelcy Warren’s Pipeline Network

Kelcy Warren did not start out as a dealmaker. He studied civil engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, training that still shows up in how he talks about Energy Transfer’s sprawling pipeline system decades later. That engineering background has translated into a habit of asking practical questions about existing assets rather than assuming…