On today’s Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and “Survivor” Melissa Crosby opened with a few words about Hurricane Helene and the storms pelting the Southeast (and the very nice but occasionally porous GrepBeat HQ). Then Melissa recapped this week’s Ladies Investing/Local Angels (LILA) meetup and Joe offered a few words on some of the latest with OpenAI.
Kaitlyn Dang (whom you may have recognized from the Monday Mix) then popped in with the week’s internal GrepBeat update. She talked about new GrepBeat writer Maddie Policastro’s feature on Raleigh startup Locally Grown, as well as this week’s episode of In The Soup, and our piece recapping the Business of Software (BoS) Conference. Kaitlyn also reminded viewers of our upcoming events, including a happy hour next Wednesday, October 2nd and our Wilmington launch party on October 10th.
Joe and Melissa then welcomed this week’s guest: Atlanta-based David Cummings, who has founded or co-founded 10 startups, and is the CEO of Atlanta Ventures. He was also one of the first, lead angel investors in Calendly!
David—who fortunately managed to stay safe and dry as the storms rolled through Georgia—delivered some impromptu Atlanta history before talking us through some of his latest projects. Long story short, these involve buying up a significant portion of South Downtown Atlanta with the aim of turning it into a kind of sprawling startup campus. Somehow Melissa’s old punk rock-ish phase came up, too.
Watch the full episode on LinkedIn here or on Facebook here.
