Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. This week I interviewed Tim Allen, Executive Vice President and Founding Partner of EvolveIP. Tim and I have been friends for nearly 25 years through a couple of companies, and in the interest of full disclosure, more than a decade together at a EvolveIP. Tim also joined me here in studio, which was a nice change of pace from the online interviews that make up a majority of my podcast, and frankly probably make up a majority of the meetings that you engage in on a day to day basis.
Post pandemic, EvolveIP is a pun intended company name. So we talked a lot about the theme of evolution and that being a principle tenet of their go to market and what he called evolutionaries or their ideal customer. These are people who don't want to incur technical debt, can't stand managing endpoints, don't want to be burdened with the basics of it. So what they did during and after the pandemic was instead of going product focused, they went use-case focused. They wrapped all of their products together in a virtual workspace delivering multiple legacy applications. Comms contact Center, a really interesting approach. Maybe give you some thoughts about another way to think about how you're acquiring and buying it. We commiserated a bit about moving out of the office during the pandemic. We were working together at that time, and truth be told, we were actually doing a move.
We were moving our office from one place to another when the pandemic hit. So we literally packed up our boxes, put them in our trunks, and never came back to the office. Kind of an interesting story. We talked about the challenges of service providers and technology companies during the digital transformation wave of the pandemic and forced work from home. I thought it was really interesting from a service provider perspective, but I think you'll find that interesting even as an IT buyer or technology leader. He suggested that the real effort in digital transformation is about teaching people how to use what they already have, what they've already bought. Really interesting insight and of course that led us into a conversation about the difference between broken and user error, which will be a fun little chat for IT leaders. Maybe you can commiserate with us a little bit. And then lastly you know, in the going forward category, Tim predicted the death of the operating system in the next 18 to 24 months in our shameless prediction segment. I'm sure he was being a little bit melodramatic for effect, I'm sure, but he makes some really great points that I think are valuable for us all to think about. So you don't want to miss this episode. Let's get to it. Here it is, my interview with Tim Allen of EvolveIP.
About Tim:
Tim is a 30 year veteran of the communications and “as a Service” space spending 90% of that time growing 2 companies from start up phase to $100M in revenue. He loves helping organizations use technology to change their business, spending time with his wife of 25 years and watching his 4 kids play sports.
CONTACT TIM
Web: https://www.evolveip.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvolveIP
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TimAllen_cloud
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timallen3/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timallen15117/
eMail: [email protected]