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The company he co-founded grossed $10 million last year andshould reap around $15 million this year. But Asheem Aggarwal,co-president/CEO of urban wireless inc. in New York City, says helives the same life he did three years ago. "It's notabout making money," says Aggarwal, 33, who co-owns the PCSdigital phone distributor with Jae Kim, 30, and brothers Peter andPaul Chu, 28 and 31 respectively. "It's to showthere's not only one road to take. It's to do things ourway and really make a difference."
The biggest impact the kids at urban wireless have made is thatnow, not only rich kids and stuffy corporate types driving Jags cantalk while they walk. Launching three years ago with $50,000 frommaxed-out credit cards and private investments, the partnersfocused on an unexplored niche: marketing cell phone service toethnic communities and creating a way for consumers with littlecredit history to purchase pre-paid AIRdiscs for various amounts oftime. "We showed people who didn't have credit that [they]aren't downtrodden," says Aggarwal.
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