Timber Barker is the CEO/Founder of Boom Interactive, a software development company that specializes in AI solutions. An advocate for making the design process easier, the technology Timber and his team have created reads, recognizes and learns from complex line drawing, floor plans, and sketches which are then used to generate real time 3D environments in the Construction (Design & Build) Industry, Education, Film and TV, Public Safety and eCommerce markets.
Prior to co-founding Boom Interactive, Timber was the CEO/Owner of Studio 11k, which provided technical marketing solutions, mainly focusing on software development, web, and mobile tech. Before dabbling in the entrepreneurial space, Timber worked for notable companies such as Ernst & Young, AT&T and Citigroup.
An advocate for education, Timber simultaneously serves as the Chief Technology Officer for a nonprofit called Sneak On The Lot, a filmmaking school for the younger generation that provides them with a safe and effective way to express themselves through film and the arts. During a time when many arts programs have been cut due to budgetary constraints, Timber is fighting for Sneak On The Lot to be placed in underserved schools across the country.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Sam and Casey
- Steve Smith
When business started difficulties overcame:
“…it all goes back to people… Just different opinions people have, differing ideals they have and things that they want and then getting them on your side… If I cannot convince my wife… And your significant other ….If you cannot convince them to take an entrepreneurial journey with you it will never work. And second to that, if you cannot convince people to be a partner to join you or people to come and work for you full-time and take part of the vision of what it can be you are not going to make it”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Ready Player Two: The highly anticipated sequel to READY PLAYER ONE Book by Ernest ClineFavourite Quote:
“You will always find the time to do what you really want to do”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- TikTok on a device or on the web, viewers can watch and discover millions of personalized short videos
- Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
- Snapchat lets you easily talk with friends, view Stories from around the world, and explore news
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“You want to validate, you want to create a prototype, build a team, sacrifice and then protect. And not necessarily in that order . But you need to show those five things before you are worthy enough to ask for anyone else to give you money. and then you only have a chance. So, if you can do those five things and do them in your way and however you want to interpret those you will find more success. I truly believe if you omit any one of those it will be harder for you… I am not saying impossible but it will be harder”…[Listen for More]
More About Timber Barker:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” George Burns
Other Quotes From the Chat with Timber Barker:
- “My journey is the journey… Where we are at right now, I have had the learnings to get to this point. Sure, if I would have learned something earlier on, we would have got here maybe a little bit quicker… Who knows, it’s just hard to say because of who I am and how I consume a lot of information and I want to learn all of the time…”
- “We like to say we are data driven… We are data driven and that’s why you validate. You want to validate some assumptions; you want to validate the data but at the end of the day you are essentially going to go with your gut feeling unless the data is so far sided. If the data is pretty close to my gut feeling… And it’s just kind of even keel, I will go with my gut feeling”
- “To be a good leader and to be a good CEO you need to scale the team, you need to look at the bigger picture constantly and you need to be the head of biz dev and be continually doing that”
- “I don’t need luck… If you are calculated and you are data driven and you have validated things and you go with your gut you know who you are you don’t need luck… You just don’t ”
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