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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 from 3 founders in a 200 square foot office to 15 employees in less than two years. We talked at their office behind Bocado on the Westside.

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.

In this episode, we talked to Colin Breece, co-founder of ShootProof, a company that reminds me a lot of MailChimp in 2009. 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.

This episode we talked to Darin Givens, author of ATL Urbanist, a nationally syndicated blog and one of the leading urbanists in Atlanta. We discussed the future of Atlanta's urban core, the most promising projects in the city and the best planned cities around the country. We talked at Ebrik Coffee Room in Downtown.