Join Lee and Glenn for a chat with Austin’s renaissance businessman Ellis Winstanley, owner and operator of both El Arroyo and its world-famous and witty marquee sign on 5th Street!  Listen to hear how Ellis got his start as a Sophomore at UT acquiring a struggling Star Seeds Café and quickly followed by acquisition of the UT institution Cain and Ables.  His story is a fascinating business tale of identifying struggling long time Austin institutions and improving day-to-day operations to get them on a more stable footing and preserving them for future generations.  

Over the last 20 years Ellis and his wife Page have been involved in such iconic restaurants as The Tavern, Able’s on the Lake, Hill’s Café and now Rockin’ R tube rentals in Gruene, TX with other business enterprises in the restaurant management space as well as a printing business printing anything that needs a logo.

With recent news of the Winstanley’s expanding El Arroyo and its infamous sign across Texas we are excited to follow what’s next for Ellis!

Now who is ready for some queso?!?!

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Join Lee and Glenn for a special BOOM-AT-rex episode as we sit down with relatively new Austinite Peter Rex who proves he isn’t your typical tech guy in a suit with a Buc-ee’s t-shirt.  Listen to the episode to hear about Peter’s love of Buc-ee’s, why he chose Austin to relocate two years ago, what his tech focused real estate companies are all about, his current thoughts on Austin, buying real estate using blockchain technology and what he see’s for Rex Companies future in Austin.

Check out www.rex.com to hear more about what all Peter and his Austin team of techies are currently working on.

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Join Lee and Glenn for a chat with an Austin treasure, Alan Graham, founder of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and Community First! Village.  Hear from Alan the transition from big time real estate developer to first feeding the homeless through Mobile Loaves and Fishes now housing our homeless neighbors at Community First! Village with big expansion plans currently in the works to more than double the community’s current capacity.  

Be sure and check out all the great things Alan and his team continues to do and support his mission as able.  https://mlf.org/

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Join Lee and Glenn as they chat with Towers founder and broker Jude Galligan and his staff Austin real estate reporter James Rambin of Towers Blog fame to hear about how the Tower empire came about, current status of downtown condo towers market, Austin real estate discussions of past, future and much more.

 What’s next for Towers around Austin, give this BoomATX episode a listen to find out! 

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BoomATX to the MOON! Join us with Lee Bratcher President and Founder of the Texas Blockchain Council and and Becca Bratcher of Bitcoin Brew a YouTube podcast on all things blockchain.  Join us as we scratch the surface of blockchain history, Lee’s efforts to make Texas the blockchain pinnacle of production, and mining lots of Bitcoin in Texas.

Can bitcoin mining actually strengthen the Texas power grid?  Listen to find out!

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On this episode of BoomATX, Lee Snedaker and Glenn Hart are joined by Matthew Iommi, CEO of Austin based start-up Fetii.  Fetii is French for ‘member of extended family’ but Matthew’s company is an innovative group rideshare platform that utilizes a network of 15-passenger vans to transport large groups and businesses on-demand. Fetii aims to remove unnecessary vehicles off of the road and de-congest cities across the world while also allowing each passenger to pay their fair share.

Matthew and co-founder Justin Rath founded Fetii while still students at Texas A&M University at nearby College Station before moving to Austin and growing their rideshare platform in Austin, College Station and Lubbock, Texas.  

With Fetii just being accepted to the exclusive start-up business accelerator Y Combinator we expect to have Matthew on again and hear all about Fetii’s explosive growth in the near future.  Give it a listen, download the Fetii app and give it a try Matthew’s Fetii service for your next big event requiring transportation!

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Senator Kirk Watson joins Lee and Glenn on BoomATX for a wide-ranging chat of how a 40 year old Baylor Bear becomes Mayor of Austin and leads the city thru our last tech boom, how Austin has changed since the 90’s, why he would want to run for Mayor again 20 years later and so much more.  

Join us as we reminisce with Senator Watson about the good ol days of Austin, his campaign plans for a future Austin, affordable housing, parks, live music, planes, trains and scooters, a new 10-1 City Council form of government, and the hope for the future of Austin successfully surviving this current period of unprecedented growth, or smart growth as the Mayor calls it!

Kirk Watson has plans for Austin and encourages our listeners to jump on board for Mayor Watson Part 2, the eclectic boogaloo!

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Join us on this BoomATX episode as Glenn and Lee sit down again with Austin residential power realtor and ABOR President Cord Shiflet with Moreland Properties.  Also joining us all the way from San Antonio, Kevin Crawford, a top luxury realtor extraordinaire with Crawford Luxury.  This informative and entertaining episode explores various Austin area entertainment and real estate topics including:

• Moody Center Justin Bieber Show Re-Cap
• Texas Exploding Residential Property Tax’s
• Central Texas Home Values Skyrocketing
• Decreases in Available Homes Listed For Sale
• And so much more….

You will definitely want to listen to the entire hour to hear about Kevin’s great charity gala Redneck Prom benefiting military families as well as Kevin and Cord’s recent race from Austin and Vegas in a 90’s Cadillac Limo and a Rolls Royce in Cord’s Fools Roll Race. Enjoy hearing about all the shenanigans as well as Glenn and Lee commit to a 2023 Fools Roll Team.  Entry fee paid and on the lookout for a deal on a car!

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On this episode of BoomATX, Lee and Glenn are joined by broker and developer Kevin Burns, CEO of Urbanspace Real Estate and an urban community advocate as well as our good friend David Rockwood from GSD&M, a global ad agency headquartered in Austin TX. 
 
 Give it a listen as we hear Kevin recount how he came to be the King of Downtown Austin Condo’s and also cover some of the following local hot topics: La Bare’s next chapter, Kevin’s Fools Roll race participation, urban living, eating and drinking, Fuller Brush Sales, and get the down low from Kevin on his first condo tower development, The Modern on Rainey Street.

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Join BoomATX’s LinkedGlenn for a chat with Cord Shiflet and DeLea Becker about the Austin’s housing market, where will all the new Austinites live, Mayor Watson coming back to lead Austin again, DeLea’s new HighRoller magazine and the best 30 minutes of Boom ATX podcast at the end hearing from Cord on the founding and stories from his incredible Cannonball Run inspired race from Austin to Vegas – Fools Roll!  You don’t want to miss this episode.

BoomATX - Interesting Austinites Doing Interesting Things!