As you know, I love doing stories on entrepreneurs from different parts of the world, especially from geographies that have insignificant presence on the entrepreneurship map of the world. Here’s a wonderful story from Nashville, Tennessee. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? David Stange: I was born in northwest Florida. I grew up in a family in the hospitality business. My dad has been a hotelier my entire life. He moved around a little bit with his various roles. When I started college, I looked around where I wanted to go. My parents made the mistake of taking me to the University of Alabama during sorority recruitment week. There were thousands of girls running out of the football stadium. That was when I decided that that was where I was going to school. When I was 14 years old, my parents told me that I had to get a job that summer. My whole journey that

Source: Building a Capital Efficient Startup from Nashville: David Stange, CEO of Beachy (Part 1) | Sramana Mitra