# Augustus Franklin

> Augustus Franklin is the founder and CEO of CallHub, a communication and organizing platform for campaigns, nonprofits, advocacy organizations and businesses. A former Sun Microsystems and Yahoo engineer, he developed Gaglers before finding a campaign-focused market for CallHub through a NationBuilder integration. His public writing addresses customer service, company values and workplace inclusion.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at CallHub
- **Organizations:** CallHub, Gaglers, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems
- **Education:** Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Madurai Kamaraj University
- **Known for:** Founded and leads CallHub., Developed the NationBuilder integration that helped establish CallHub’s campaign market., Led a company described in 2023 interviews as serving over 2,000 customers across 46 countries; these are historical reported figures.

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Left Sun/Oracle on April 9 after about ten years; relocated from the Bay Area to Bangalore.
- **2011** — Started Gaglers; the early venture joined the Morpheus startup network.
- **2013** — With ten paying Gaglers customers and his initial runway exhausted, received a family loan for another six months.
- **2014** — Built a CallHub integration with NationBuilder as campaign and advocacy users emerged as its market.
- **2023** — Published CallHub’s progressive values and customer-alignment policy on May 2.
- **2024** — Explained CallHub’s common working-language policy in a May 23 essay.
- **2025** — Discussed his founder journey with Gaurav Mittal on the Supermorpheus Startups and Evolution series.

## Achievements

- Founded and leads CallHub.
- Developed the NationBuilder integration that helped establish CallHub’s campaign market.
- Led a company described in 2023 interviews as serving over 2,000 customers across 46 countries; these are historical reported figures.

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Shared his Supermorpheus founder interview, discussing the move from solo founder to a team and the role of content, SEO and market demand.
- **2024-05** — Published his explanation of English as CallHub’s common operational language.

## Links

- Website: https://afdiraviam.wordpress.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/augfrank
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/augfrank

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Last updated: 2026-10-23