Meet the App That Makes Nightclubbing Not Terrible

Working as luxury real estate broker in Boston, Julian Jung was used to VIP service whenever he entertained clients at local clubs or bars. Such free-speeding glad-handing earned him gilt by association—friends and clients flocked to serve as his wingman.

It was a rude awakening, then, when Jung took a vacation to Brazil with friends; his hard-earned access back home naturally counted for nothing at the hottest nightclubs in Florianópolis, and he was relegated to waiting hopefully on line, an after hours nobody. “I was booking everything [else] on that trip using Hotel Tonight and Uber,” Jung explains by phone, back home in Boston, “And I thought: what if you could just click a button, and get a table?” So he ditched the life of a broker and launched a startup that did exactly that: he called it Tablelist.