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Grady Johnson

Oct 21, 2026

2:33
Well, share with us what some of the programs are that entrepreneurs are benefiting from through your center.
2:39
We think about the building itself as a program itself.
2:43
This opportunity to put this many entrepreneurs under one roof and with a large variety of business models, it becomes its own program.
2:52
Then we do programming for different stages of entrepreneurs.
2:57
We've early stage workshops.
3:00
We've got the accelerator program that we've been running here for years where we're helping companies who already have a minimum viable product get into the market and scale that and get ready for follow-on investment.
3:12
And we're adding programming now this year with the help funding from Low Country Impact Fund and the SCRA to add a program earlier stage where we can help entrepreneurs who've already got the idea and concept, but help them get from MVP to their first users in beta.
3:31
What do you suppose it is about your neck of the woods that is making it such a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity?
5:08
What are you going to do with this amazing investment?
5:12
Well, think about it like, like the way we are, Bill, this is, this is like fertilizer.
5:19
Right.
5:21
And, and you, you know, uh, the, the investment that, uh, that the low country impact fund made, uh, you know, under, under Pete's Pete's guidance, um, we can take, we can take that investment and, and we can help hundreds of entrepreneurs who, who will, um, you know, many of them, we, like I said a minute ago, trying to, we, what we do is we, we do whatever we can to de-risk their, uh, you know, their launch of a company or whatever stage they're in.
5:56
And so many of them are going to become successful and they in turn are going to come back around and support the community.
6:07
If you look at the hospitals around the Lowcountry or colleges and universities and you look at the names on those buildings, those are local entrepreneurs.
6:18
Right.

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13:34
How do you guys see that kind of world kind of evolve here in the low

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