Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens On Why You Should Do Business In The City | ForbesBLK Summit 2024

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Atlanta is one of the centers of Black entrepreneurship in America. But it's way more than that. We'll check in with the mayor of the biggest city in the south on why Atlanta works, and why you should want to do business here too. Andre Dickens, Mayor of Atlanta Interviewer: Seth Cohen, Chief Impact Officer, Forbes. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now for a special conversation,
0:02.5	please welcome back interviewer Seth Cohen
0:05.4	and mayor of Atlanta Andre Dickens.
0:08.2	Let's get it for the mayor!
0:09.6	Come on. Come on. We got the mayor in the house.
0:18.0	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:19.8	What's going on for me?
0:20.8	I actually got to be honest.
0:23.0	We were just talking, we have like two mayors in the house,
0:25.0	but this is the mayor mayor.
0:27.0	That's right.
0:28.0	Y'all want me to get out of the way
0:30.0	so y'all can get to the other mayor, which is the main new pre, the party mayor.
0:34.2	So I want to jump right in Mayor Dickens because first of all I want to thank you for
0:38.6	hosting us for this and having us here in Atlanta.
0:41.0	Yeah, sir.
0:42.1	This wouldn't be possible without you and your support of what
0:44.6	we're doing. You as we were discussing this week celebrated your 50th birthday
0:50.1	you're a young man. Yeah that that's right. 50 years young, y'all.
0:54.0	Looking at this audience, everybody, like 22.
0:57.0	I'm 50 and I look a lot older.
0:59.0	So, but I know since we last spoke, you've learned a a lot a lot's changed in Atlanta things are just happening yeah
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