It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

Sometimes what makes a business interesting is not so much what it does as much as how it does it. Today, the internet and mobile platforms make it possible to do business in all sorts of new ways. Then again, the digital era has also made it possible for savvy entrepreneurs to improve on age old business models. Like the barter economy. And come up with something better. Stephanie s guests on Out to Lunch exemplify those trends. Chip Davis is president and CEO of the Trade Authority. It s a Baton Rouge organization that is almost its own country with its own currency The TRade Authority supplies software, technical services and know how to barter exchanges. Chip knows something about this. He and 12 other partners founded the very successful Partners One Exchange in Baton Rouge in 2000. In the years since, Trade Authority has grown to 650 members, who spend trade dollars backed by goods and services amongst themselves on the exchange. The success of Partners One is what prompted Chip several years ago to cre