GA Pacific, Lure, Amazon Prime & Work Hard Play Hard

In the guest chair(s):

Jamie Bardin, Adam Wattenbarger, David Hobbs (hiding in the back!), Dana Barrett and Adam Gajadarsingh

Jamie Bardin, VP & GM New Venture Development at Georgia Pacific joined me in studio today to talk about his career, the differences (bad and good) between working for big companies vs small ones and we also talked a bit about the importance of corporate culture and the pros and cons of social enterprise.

Adam G from Social Save and Lure GM, David Hobbs joined us for Work Hard / Play Hard – and shared two really great upcoming events at Lure:

Oyster Roast Part Deux – Tomorrow Saturday 4/26 starting at 1PM – and –
Talisker Whisky Tasting Seminar with Master of Whisky and whisky educator, Kevin Mulcahy next Monday 4/28 at 8:00PM
For details on both events,  click http://lure-atlanta.com/events-calendar/

And in the headlines:

• Chequers Restaurant in Dunwoody is shutting down after 31 years, but it’s not all bad news… they are re-opening in a new location!
• And we’ve talked a lot about innovation at GA Tech on this show, but this week, a GSU Professor has been awarded a 2.8 million dollar federal grant for drug research.   Take that Georgia Tech.
• Amazon introduces Prime Pantry.  I’m a Prime fan, so not sure how this will effect me.  But Amazon is smart… get me hooked and then raise the prices.  Yup, smart.
• And Apple doubters, back off, yesterday Apple stock prices went up by more than 8%.  So all the tech reporters just waiting for them to fail may have to wait a little longer.