Travis Franklin, Co-Founder of Tipton Franklin and Founder of Bar 9 Agency (Interview 22/100)

Travis Franklin is the Co-Founder of Tipton Franklin and Founder of Bar 9 Agency. He's also the second in a 2-part series of the folks behind Tipton Franklin. When you put the stories of Angela Tipton (his Co-Founder) & Travis together, you get this well-rounded perspective of 2 folks that are using their unique expertise that positions them right between their agriculture and scientific backgrounds with each of their marketing education & experience to help the experts in each of those respective fields work seamlessly together. If we’ve learned anything from the folks from the previous interviews of the Capitalism for Good project, it’s that it really takes all kinds of people, working together to keep things running, especially running well and running for good (I’m reminded here about Veronica Hernandez’s bird analogy). They’re also both focused, and have been from the beginning, on being intentional about where they can make an impact and choosing the people that they feel good about working with.

In his words, “every single pivot was a moment that I was planting a seed.” Whether those moments were intentional or not, it was each of those seeds and the curveballs that life pitches to us all, that got him to where he is now. And while the technology of today they're using in Tipton Franklin is helping small businesses keep up with their competition, these novel advancements aren't free of downsides. Travis doesn’t sweep the concerns under the rug making comparisons to the perceived potential threat of Y2K referencing the instinct we all inherently have saying that, “evolution has told us to watch for the grass moving in the jungle so that when that when the predator comes at us, we’re ready…we’re at that stage now where we’re not sure that the AI is the grass moving in the jungle and we’re in danger or if it’s something else that’s there to help us.” Despite the risk, he is choosing to leverage the opportunities for good through both Tipton Franklin & Bar 9 Agency. At the end of the day, that’s exactly what this project is all about. And that’s exactly the kind of thing that we can all learn from. 

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• Sabrina Romonov - Blotato

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