Executive

Founded 1997 in the Burbank Media District in Los Angeles (NBC, Disney, Warner Brothers, SEGA, Dolby…)
Housed in a 12,500 square foot windowless 1950s bunker formerly part of Lockheed Skunk Works (“Bomb Factory”)
Shipped thirty (30) products in four years
All products acquired by AVID Technology and made part of the industry standard media creation platforms
Bomb Factory’s remarkable collection of historic equipment and musical instruments acquired by the National Music Centre, Canada
Bomb Factory retains extensive IP in audio and video signal processing

Achievements/Innovations

Pioneered the business model for building and marketing authentic digital versions of classic analog media equipment
Worked directly with OEM inventors on designs and licensed their trademarks
Dragged basic 1930s Bell Labs technology into the digital domain: oscillators, filters, distortion
True analog circuit simulations (tubes, transistors) and physics models (belt/pulley slippage, electroluminescence, rotating speakers)
Brought the first digital products from Dr. Bob Moog to market

Why It Worked

Combination R&D (tech) and production (art) facility enabled development in an environment reflecting how the products actually get used
Feedback from numerous high-end clients during the R&D cycle
Hit records reached the marketplace before customers could purchase the tools to use on their own productions
Quality: “Bob Moog mentions that he’s continually approached by software companies to brand a product with his newly re-won name. ‘We have a look at the software technology that they propose to use, and usually there’s enough of a difference between the way that stuff sounds and works and the things that I’ve made in the past that we decide not to get involved. The one exception has been Bomb Factory.’”

Payment and patronage platform
Originated as an experimental sponsorship platform for video creators
Utilized during the 2008 election
Developed in close partnership with Google Payments, PayPal Adaptive Payments, and Amazon Payments
One banned us then publicly apologized and re-instated; the other two no longer exist
Inspired GoFundMe, Kickstarter and PayPal.me (which originated as “gim.me”)
PayPal has three hard limit, absolute no-go product categories: pornography, drugs, and cruise ship payments
Worked directly with PayPal CEO on a backend to process large-scale cruise ship payments

Turns any HTML element into a pop-up purchase experience
One line of script, a few characters of HTML: <button data-sku=”t-shirt-medium”>Buy Now</button>
Supports multiple currencies, recurring subscriptions, digital goods fulfillment
Turnkey software development, distribution, patches, upgrades and optional digital rights management
Full API plus serverless backend hooks to customize checkout flow
Launched in England, Belgium and USA

Platform for data processing pipelines
Opinionated interface to Docker containers
Short running (serverless) or long running (batch processing)
Optional client-side libraries for consumer drag and drop services (desktop and web)
Integration with OneDrive and DropBox
Full management API
Used by Pummelvision

Cloud based expert systems that process and improve media files
Meticulously developed expert systems with supplemental machine learning for quality assurance
Audio sweetening and professional mastering: consumer mp3s, historic reissues (Fleetwood Mac), even vinyl records
Also: vocal tuning (AutoTune killer), virtual instruments (upload music note scores, receive audio played by classic instruments)
Video A/B test yielded 2.5x increase in videos watched per session
Full API for real-time streaming and/or batch processing
Built on DropEverything platform (infinite scale)

Digital Signal Processing — in analog hardware
Analog models of classic, unobtainable electronic equipment
Mathematical models run using analog computers (nobody’s doing anything like it)
No latency, no arguments over “digital”, rave reviews
$35,000 vintage equipment at 1/10th the cost
Other audio brands include REALIOS and Funk Logic

501(c)(3) non-profit founded 1971
Extraordinarily influential organization feeding the media and arts community
Funding by National Endowment for the Arts, NY State Council for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation
Developed historic equipment with Nam June Paik
Archives at Cornell
Equipment relocated to Atlanta: historically significant prototypes, museum exhibits, schematics and technical documentation
12,000 square feet of warehouse, studio and residency space