Business mogul Wright Thurston maintains a long line of successful companies across many different industries. However, one of his greatest successes is an innovative retail mobile phone business called Future Phones, which he established in 1999. Founded as mobile phones were becoming affordable and more easily accessible for the general public, Future Phones used an integrated sales model of direct sales and online marketing to develop a national customer base and become one of the country's leading distributors of AT&T Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Inc. (now T-Mobile USA, Inc.) phones and wireless plans. Thurston founded Future Phones as a traditional retail operation, opening kiosks and outlets in malls and supercenters throughout the state of Washington. To help run the company, devi