Atlanta

“By the end of the year, that first year there in 1979, they open the third store in Atlanta, And they do seven million dollars in total sales for just that like six month operating period of the first year.”

“In Atlanta, it was upwards of 20% or more of the whole housing stock was owned by institutional buyers.”

“One of the issues was refurbishing their light rail line, their MARTA high speed line. They have a 104 miles of track. And being able to enact electric buses. That idea came out of our ideation. I understand that they have enacted a bunch of that ready for the…”

“Now drivers in Austin and Atlanta, where we have two big partnerships with Waymo, Drivers on the Uber platform, they're making more money. The number of drivers joining the platform is increasing because it looks like AVs are actually adding incremental demand…”

“I bought a couple of pieces of land in downtown Atlanta and this historic place called Castle Berry Hill. I had like three buildings.”

“I have another business partner by the name of Joe. He's running my adult, I have a strip club in Atlanta called Candyland. Be open three years this year.”

“So in, in Atlanta, I don't know about anywhere else, in Atlanta, the license to have alcohol and nudity They put that in, out of commission in like, 93. So you have to get grandfather, and you have to actually buy that from somebody else.”

“All you have to do is look at certain concentrated areas, and you look at a place like Atlanta, where more than 25% of the housing stock is owned by large institutional investors.”

“That's why when we started Mrs. Meyers, we just went after market after market, and we just chipped away. We went to, we tried the Midwest, that was a disaster, so we just chipped away. New York, Atlanta, big major markets that would be so much more accepting.”

“Atlanta is, was at a low, was at 60% staffed. They're now up to 75, 80.”

“JCPenney was looking to sublease four massive department stores that were failing. The negotiations went great until Penny dropped a bomb. They had to take all four locations or none, and this was insane.”

“Fall of 1885, Atlanta, I think might have been the first major city in America that institutes prohibition and becomes a dry town.”

“Locations that I like to target are referred to as like tier two cities or tier three cities. So don't think about like Los Angeles or New York or, you know, Chicago or San Diego or something like that. I live in Charlotte. There's a ton of opportunity here. T…”

“Waymo, Waymo is working with us now in Austin and Atlanta. So in Austin and Atlanta, if you're using Uber, ah, you can be picked up, ah, with a Waymo.”

“I actually kept a car in Atlanta at the, you know, parking go where I would go there on Monday morning and then drive from Atlanta to Talladega. It's about a two hour drive. And I would stay there Monday through Friday and come back, and so for the first three…”

“The real reason that a distributed capacity procurement focuses more on customer cited assets Than just size format is actually a pretty pragmatic reason, which is in a lot of the places of the grid where you need the capacity, there just isn't space to put th…”

“So what I'm prioritizing is what a lot of other funds avoid, which is I'm going after first time founders. Primarily I'm going after second tier cities. And by second tier city, I mean like Atlanta, DC, Baltimore, Richmond, Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago. I'm n…”

“And within like 10 minutes span, we went from like two out of 10 cars utilized To, like, all 10 cars utilized, and like hundred people in the app.”

“When we went into the initial market, we got a Yelp list of all the drivers in the city and sort of like called through and trying to get them to sign up with Uber and, you know, got our initial list of drivers that way and launched a few weeks later with some…”

“Probably like 75.”

“For the first year in Atlanta, I was the only person handling the driver side. We had Keith overseeing the city as a general manager, and he was incredible, and we had a marketing manager. But, you know, I probably had, like, a thousand or 1500 drivers that we…”

“I couldn't get funding even if I wanted to after the dot com bust. I was in Atlanta, so don't use me as a hero.”

“They make it really hard to open new airports, huh? That's kind of crazy. It's impossible. I mean, impossible.”

“You know, there's actually a pay for performance CRO agency based in Atlanta. I think they're, I forgot their name. I would, oh, spiralize. That's their name. And let's say your conversion, your e-com conversion rates one percent right now. I'm like, okay, wel…”

“You know, I've identified where my best thinking happens, and it's in the car, and I live really close to Spanx, so I've created what my friends call my fake commute, and I get up an hour early before I'm supposed to go to Spanx, and I drive around aimlessly i…”

“My grand opening, I had 1200 people standing outside.”

“We're Really honing in in the city of Atlanta, where this will be our first clinic to provide these services through care coordination and patient navigation, but it will allow us to do billing particularly, and to be reimbursed for our time beyond the barbers…”

“I was serving anywhere from three 50 to 500 people at a time.”

“A Walmart in Atlanta, the power went out, and I mean, went out for less than 20 minutes, right? And because of that, they were throwing away everything in their freezers and everything in their coolers, and so she calls us, and she was like, hey, I don't know …”

“If you're gonna start a B-to-B enterprise company, California's absolutely the best place to be. B to C, like a consumer brand, you can't beat Atlanta. We've got Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, Delta Airlines, Chick-fil-A, like top, top brands are all right there …”

“They clean. 70,000 clothing items a month and a million people go to the store every single year. And it's about a 150 miles outside of Atlanta.”

“We are creating Atlanta's first mobile Black Bookmobile, so when outside is open and it's safe to do so, we'll be driving around the city and bringing books to people that way, so you can kind of think of it as a food truck for books or a bookstore in a tiny h…”

“We partner with groups in Atlanta and Chicago. That give books to incarcerated people and also give books for free to students.”

“Atlanta, Atlanta should go 70% Biden.”

“What's more difficult coming from a city like Atlanta growing SaaS businesses is C-level talent. We have amazing individual contributors. We have amazing people from a middle management perspective. But the C-level talent has been a real challenge.”

“Atlanta I think, is the most important city in the country right now.”

“Most of our customers are there. Our highest revenues are there.”

“So we've got overall about 130 employees. We've got 40 in Vietnam. We've got about 85 here in Atlanta, and we've got a small but growing team in London of sales executives focused in the Europe market.”

“Yeah, we have about 500 contractors with our team right now, and about 61 employees here in the Atlanta metro area.”

“I actually think our best days are happening in sort of consecutive fashion right now. So I'm excited about what's going on with ATV, Atlanta Tech Village, David Cummings, a bunch of other incubators, and we've also had a lot of great wins, Ionic Security, Car…”

“So we in one year in Atlanta, got over 4000 employers to sign up and accumulated over a 100,000 job seekers and got 20,000 people hired.”