Manual labor

Building a global empire might be the entrepreneurial dream for some, but not Jason Caras.

The co-CEO of IT Authorities already expanded overseas once, into Australia and through the Asian Pacific market. When those contracts ended in 2013 and 2014, however, Caras was ready to do something new: Refocus business back on the Gulf Coast.

“We were doing integration work for very large companies,” Caras says. “But it was a distraction from our core business.”