After graduating from Auburn University’s entrepreneurship program in 2012, Clint Jarvis, who went to high school in Alpharetta, came home to Atlanta inspired. He helped startups blossom, then built gottaGolf , a popular social app for tracing and sharing golf shots, which was acquired in 2017. Some people might say he was living the techie American dream. He’d say hardly.

Jarvis was beyond burned out—and hopelessly addicted to the cheap dopamine blasts of internet nonreality.

“I was plugged in 24/7 and working just to work,” says Jarvis, 35. “When I wasn’t on my computer, I was on my phone, checking email 100 times a day.”

But then—bling!—the proverbial light bulb moment.

Believing in the power of mindfulness, Jarvis set out to build a nature-based wellness app called Roots (think

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