Offbeat Media Team named quickest-rising UGA enterprise

Alumni Affiliation reveals 2022 Bulldog 100 record

The College of Georgia Alumni Affiliation acknowledged the speediest-increasing businesses owned or led by UGA alumni throughout the 13th once-a-year Bulldog 100 Celebration on Feb. 5 in the West End Zone of Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga.

The 2022 speediest-escalating small business, Offbeat Media Team, features four UGA graduates at the helm: Shepherd Ogden (BBA ’18), CEO and co-founder Bailey Grady (BBA ’19), COO and co-founder Christopher Travers (BBA ’17), COO and co-founder and Kevin Planovsky (ABJ ’05), advisor.

Atlanta-based mostly Offbeat Media Group is a top electronic impact and media enterprise that owns, builds and brokers the largest indigenous social media network of publishers and virtual influencers. Now with in excess of 1 billion followers, the principle was trailblazed by just one of its co-founders when he was just a sophomore in substantial college. With investments from enterprise capitalists like Mark Cuban, this company’s shoppers sit at the intersection of way of living, lifestyle and entertainment. Individuals shoppers consist of TikTok, McDonald’s, Twitch, Cameo, Netflix, Warner Tunes Group and a lot more.

“We are the solution of what young business owners can do in this article at UGA,” said Ogden. “I hope we’ll see many more providers like ours commenced by pupils that are in college correct now mainly because of the assets remaining dedicated by the university. Our UGA mentors and programs like the New Media Institute and Innovation District have been amazingly valuable.”

Ogden ongoing, “If there is one thing I can inquire every person to do, it’s to carry on to assistance college student entrepreneurs. That’s the cause we’re standing right here nowadays, mainly because of the aid we ended up supplied at UGA.”

Rounding out the Bulldog 100 leading ten are:

2. Rheos Nautical Eyewear, Charleston, South Carolina
3. Roadie, Atlanta, Ga
4. Bitcoin Depot, Atlanta, Georgia
5. BIOLYTE, Canton, Georgia
6. YouthServ360 Inc. dba 7 Pillars Occupation Academy, Forest Park, Georgia
7. Edwards & Hawkins LLC, Atlanta, Ga
8. Golden Isles Pharmacy, Brunswick, Georgia
9. LeaseQuery, Atlanta, Georgia
10. inBrain, Atlanta, Georgia

“The 2022 Bulldog 100 recognizes outstanding alumni achievements,…