Episode 018 / Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed
This episode we sat down with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed during Switchyards Downtown Club’s Members Week in Downtown Atlanta.
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Episode 017 / Nick Miller (Gather)
This episode, we talked to Nick Miller, co-founder and CEO of Gather, a web application used by close to 1,000 restaurants and venues across the U.S. to manage their entire private events program. The average person wouldn’t realize this but for a full service restaurant, anywhere from10-40% of their revenue comes from private events. Some of the top restaurants in the country use Gather to manage everything in that workflow. Nick and his co-founders, Alex Lassiter and Tom Merrihew, have grown the company from 3 founders in a 200 square foot closet to 15 employees in less than two years. We talked at their office behind Bocado on the Westside.
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Episode 016 / Geoff Graham (GuildQuality)
In this episode, we talked to Geoff Graham, founder and CEO of GuildQuality. You’ve probably never heard of GuildQuality and Geoff’s OK with that. They’ve surveyed one million homeowners with their customer satisfaction surveying tool, have 2,000 homebuilders as customers and have 27 employees. They’re another great “overnight” Atlanta startup success story. He started the company 12 years ago based on an idea he had while developing mixed-use real estate communities. We sat down at their brand-new office, a converted old warehouse next to Sweetwater’s Brewery.
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Episode 015 / Jenny Levison (Souper Jenny)
In this episode, we sat down with Jenny Levison. You know her as Souper Jenny. 16 years ago, and with no formal restaurant training, she opened her first sandwich shop in Buckhead. She now has six restaurants and Souper Jenny is an Atlanta staple and one of the most unique dining experiences in the city. We sat down at her 2nd location in Decatur.
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Episode 014 / Colin Breece (ShootProof)
In this episode, we talked to Colin Breece, co-founder of ShootProof, a company that reminds me a lot of MailChimp in 2008. If there is such a thing as the perfect Atlanta-style startup, ShootProof is it. Colin and his co-founder built the company with no financing over a 2.5 stretch before they focused on it full-time. We discussed this and their path to 16,000 paying customers at Chattahoochee Coffee Company.
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Episode 012 / Allen Nance (WhatCounts & TechSquare Labs)
In this episode, we sat down with the always passionate Allen Nance, CEO of WhatCounts, angel investor and, along with Paul Judge, founder of the recently launched TechSquare Labs. Their goal? Create two billion dollar companies in Atlanta over the next 10 years. We sat down at Proper Medium’s studio in Lake Claire.
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Episode 009 / Tony Riffel (Octane Coffee)
In this episode, our first podcast, we sat down with Tony Riffel, founder and CEO of Octane Coffee, one of Atlanta’s most loved brands. Tony started Octane in 2003 with no formal coffee shop experience with one location in the industrial Westside neighborhood. The shop is consistently recognized as one of the best in the country and is one of the centers of creative, design and business in the city. Today, there are 5 Octane coffee shops in Atlanta and Birmingham.
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Episode 008 / Ford Fry (Rocket Farm Restaurants)
This episode we talked to Ford Fry, the visionary behind some of Atlanta’s most popular and successful restaurants - JCT, No. 246, The Optimist and his newest ones, King + Duke and St. Cecilia. We sat down at the Optimist, which was named Esquire Restaurant of the Year in 2012.
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Episode 007 / Atlanta Startup CEOs
In this episode we sat down with four startup CEOs, TJ Muehleman of We&Co, Rob Kischuk of Perfect Post, Jeff Hilimire of Dragon Army and Jon Birdsong of Rivalry and discussed their differing views of the Atlanta startup scene. We talked in the Atlanta Tech Village in Buckhead.
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Episode 006 / Atlanta Tech Village
After sitting down with David Cummings in our first episode (when ATV was just a twinkle in his eye) we thought it’d be fun to drop in and show you an inside, unscripted view of his buzzed-about startup incubator, Atlanta Tech Village. We dropped in a few weeks ago (err… months) and let the camera roll.
Disclosure: this was filmed in Fall 2013, pre-renovation. The On Doers editing team takes a while but they produce great results so it’s all good.
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