Special Speaker Friday - David Salyers from Chick-Fil-A

Whether or not you like chicken, Chick-fil-A is a billion dollar corporation built almost completely on culture. They are an impressive company based right here in Atlanta and David Salyers, Vice President of Marketing with Chick-fil-A and author of Remarkable, is joining us for Startup Chowdown this Friday! David is a gifted speaker who will be sharing with us Chick-fil-A's  “Be Remarkable” mission, and how businesses can be remarkable in their own way to make an improvement in their business activity and their values. One of our Village members, Craig Hyde- Founder of Rigor, recently got to hear David Salyers speak. He enjoyed it so much that he personally invited David to come to Atlanta Tech Village to share his insights and story. Not only is David Salyers speaking this Friday at Startup Chowdown, he is buying Chick-fil-A for everyone! There may even be a cow sighting. You want to be here. It's going to be awesome. Here are the details: When: This Friday, August 2nd. Lunch at 12pm, speaker at 12:35.Where: The Village, 5th floor event space. Who: Everyone is welcome! Come have lunch with 150+ entrepreneurs in Atlanta and hear a great speaker.  Not a member? Buy your lunch ticket here. What: Lunch, community and David Salyers. Read his bio below! David Salyers David Salyers has been on quite a journey. Having graduated from college on a Saturday morning, he started his career with Chick-fil-A before the day was over. Currently serving as the Vice President of National, Regional and Local Marketing for Chick- fil-A, Inc., David has invested his entire career as part of a team, committed to building the kind of company culture that people talk about! As a passionate student of life and business, he has spent over thirty years seeing the principles in this book play out corporately and in over 1,600 Chick-fil-A restaurants across the country. Serving as a board member for numerous non-profit organizations, and a few for-profit startups, has convinced him further that some principles are universally applicable. Having the unique opportunity to witness both great leaders and great organizations, he is energized to pass along the principles he has discovered from a personal journey, which can only be described as…Remarkable!