Inspirational Technology

We’ve just released the latest Grid7 Venturecast with Jason Barney founder and CTO of iTool. iTool was acquired by Onvia and Jason eventually went on to achieve great success in Real Estate and is now the founder of the Groove Cellar recording studio in Gilbert Az.

This is a notable venturecast on a few levels. In my opinion, it’s the most interesting one we’ve done so far. Jason does a great job of sharing the experience gained from leading a venture backed startup and also ties it together with the knowledge he’s gained by achieving success in a completely different industry. It’s also interesting because Jason is no longer in the tech industry and that gives him a different perspective and willingness to discuss things that others would probably avoid.

Of less significance, this is the first venturecast where I actively participated in the interview. Normally I just listen, but I always ask so many questions after it’s over, that we decided to change things up a little from here on and have me actually talk. We’ll see how that goes, I tend to clam up when things like microphones are around.

This podcast was recorded in Groove Cellar Studios using professional grade mics and cool stuff like that. We normally just record with the internal Mic on a Macbook, hardly high tech. Before the recording, Jason also gave us a fascinating tour of the studio. I wish we could have recorded that on video, it was really interesting.

One final note. I was personally involved in the very early stages of iTool, but left to found another company before the service went live. Sean also worked for iTool at one point in time. So we’ve both known Jason for a long time and that’s certainly reflected in the recording. Hopefully the discussions with missing context aren’t too problematic.