[2][3] The Atlanta Business Chronicle was founded in 1978 by Bob Gray and Mike Weingart.

[4] Gray, the publisher, and Weingart, the newspaper's first editor, had previously founded the Houston Business Journal.

[3] In 1988, the Atlanta Business Chronicle was the first to break the major story that the Sumitomo Life Insurance Company was buying the IBM Tower (One Atlantic Center) for $300 million.

Under Sharpe, two Gerald Loeb Awards were won by the paper for investigative reporting.

[6] The Atlanta Business Chronicle has a paid circulation of 23,275, along with 729,899 monthly online readers.