Upstate Cloud Company Raining Money

By Mike Switzer

Published April 19, 2017 at 5:51 AM EDT

It wasn’t too long ago that few people knew that “the cloud” was no longer just a meteorological term. In fact, there is now an Upstate South Carolina “cloud” company that is raining money. In 2015, they were named South Carolina’s Fastest Growing Company and in 2016, they were ranked #73 on the Inc. 5000, the prestigious list of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation.

Mike Switzer interviews Shay Houser, co-founder and CEO of Green Cloud, based in Greenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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