A Shout Out to Georgia’s Truett Cathy

This week, one of Georgia’s finest entrepreneurs passed away. Truett Cathy is the founder of Chick-fil-a. The WSJ ran an article talking about life lessons from this giant. Here are 6 takeaways:

1. He was an irrepressible optimist
2. He was a hard worker
3. He kept his promises
4. He promoted from within and created a genius fast food business model the envy of other chains
5. He was generous
6. He stayed humble

Like many other successful entrepreneurs around town, he went for a number of years operating a modest sized startup until it exploded. He is a great model for what it means to bootstrap until the conditions are right to step on the gas.

I went to Chick-fil-a twice this week in honor of his memory. Eat mo’ chicken!

What entrepreneurial heroes do you like?