Jeremy Barr, The Success Accelerator: Molding Tomorrow's Leaders Today

In the fast-paced realm of entrepreneurship, one name shines bright: Jeremy Barr. Founder of the platform Rocket Mindset, Jeremy has embarked on a passionate mission to positively impact the lives of 3 billion individuals worldwide – an ambitious feat. This is not just a mere aspiration; it's a relentless pursuit of empowering the next generation of highly successful entrepreneurs and experts.

With an illustrious career that boasts positions as a venture capitalist, CEO, COO, CTO, and more within well-known organizations, Jeremy brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. However, his ambitions stretch far beyond corporate titles and conventional accolades. The entrepreneur is driven by a deeper purpose - to help others unlock their true potential and thrive in the competitive landscape of business.

Through Jeremy’s coaching, individuals are guided on a transformative journey that delves into the intricacies of team management, leadership, and the development of unshakable confidence. It's an immersive experience that transcends traditional mentoring, taking participants to the very core of their abilities.

What sets Jeremy apart from the crowd is his unwavering commitment to a heart-centered approach. In a world often driven by profit and self-interest, Jeremy chose a different path - one illuminated by a genuine desire to give back. He firmly believes in empowering those who aspire to be the next generation of CEOs, as well as those destined to captivate the world as the next big TikTok sensation. 

As the founder and CEO of Rocket Mindset, what motivated you to create a program aimed at fast-tracking people to become founders or leader experts?

I was motivated to start Rocket Mindset out of an intersection between what I believe to be the biggest bottleneck to world impact at scale (which is creating high quality high scale founders and leaders) and my personal and professional life experience. 

I was a D/F student until my mother took me out of school to homeschool me for 7th grade. She built up my ‘competence-confidence’ loop which caused me to get A’s and B’s with her and from public school when she put me back in the following year. That was one of three major highlight points in my life. The second point was earlier than that when I was getting emotional about being stuck doing multiplication in 3rd grade. I remember my Dad saying; “As long as all you do is try that’s what matters,” that phrase stuck with me for 30+ years. His belief in me was powerful. 

The third point was me converting from anti-social to super social. I went from not being able to say more than a sentence to someone, to going out every single day with people for 6 months straight. All three incidents are a demonstration that ‘I was not born this way, rather, I was made this way.’ And now that carries into my coaching. I have developed a precise skill-set and precise process for developing people into anything they want to be in the most rapid timeline possible. 

‍How has your extensive experience as an engineer shaped your leadership style?

Firstly, as an engineer, your entire trade is about analyzing a human process and replicating it in code. So you have to do that process extremely well. You have to be precise with words, causes, effects and ultimately understand the true root of things. Secondly, I learned that by spending so much time in engineering and not as much with people, my skills were warped in that direction. This gave me the insight to develop any skill I wanted to just by putting time and effort into it. I was also able to cross technical roles from engineer to principle engineer to Director to CTO. The different layers had different needs and perspectives. This taught me ‘prescriptive advice’ which I now talk about a ton. 

You've mentioned that you've operated at both million and billion-dollar companies. How do the challenges differ at these scales, and how have these experiences prepared you for Rocket Mindset?

After working at million $ and billion $ scale size companies (manager, director, CTO, COO, CEO, VC Investor) I was able to see different team structures and skill-sets needed at different levels. You need more process, less hat-wearing and a focus on talent management at high scale. You also need less process, more hat-wearing and also a focus on talent management at low scale. I saw that regardless of scale, the wins and losses were always attributed to the talent in the organization…particularly teamwork. 

Digging deeper, I saw how most individuals are still struggling with insecurities (stemming from goal chasing and living in a ‘lack’ mindset) and this drives 95% of conversations. A conversation about a project will get done well just by 90% focusing on the insecurities, personal needs and communication skills of each person and 10% on the project details. 

Regardless of scale, people are the core of companies: great people come from clear life and action understanding - which usually comes after a significant (resource intensive and efficient) - life discovery phase. Mentors dramatically accelerate the process. Interacting with as many different people as possible dramatically accelerates the process. 

‍You write that you contributed to the AI on a project in collaboration with the FBI and the Secret Service and that you also helped build the Super Bowl website early in your career. How have these unique experiences shaped your professional journey?

The projects showed me that I can achieve big things in a short amount of time just by believing in myself and taking clear, focused action. I also learned about all the fraud in the world and this was when I started to see a large contrast between the pretty and the not-so pretty parts in the world. At the end of the day, it made me want to use my skill-set to add to the good in the world.

‍You've offered to share insights on launching and scaling a company to $100 million+. Can you give us a sneak peek into some of your strategies?

Sure, some highlights and key points to scaling a company to $100 million are:

1. A founder first needs to be a ‘gravity ball’ to attract and retain quality partners, employees, investors and customers. This starts by talking to a massive amount of a variety of people so that you can communicate to and relate to a large number of people. You can actually grade a company will be successful based on this very point. 

2. Learn to interview like it’s the only thing that matters on the planet because at scale you cannot micromanage. At scale, you have to be the dumbest person in the room and still coordinate people. This means interviewing for things that transcend engineering, accounting, sales, etc…things like ‘attention to detail’ (super rare), empathy (super rare), listening skills - verbal and non-verbal especially - (super rare), communication precision, ability to communicate complex topics simply, time/energy management, clarity of life and professional goals, consistency and more. 

3. What works at one level of scale will break you at another level of scale. Learn when you need to break your old beliefs that 100% worked at the previous level of scale.

4. Understanding the human condition and the human journey at a deep level is the ONLY thing that matters at scale. Once you do that, the team will take care of every single detail. Once you have great humans working together and growing together…you are limitless!

‍You've stated that 95% of companies today fail for a human reason. What are some common human development or collaboration challenges you've observed, and how does Rocket Mindset address these?

‍Some common human development and collaboration challenges which owe to 95% of companies failing are:

1. A lack of life clarity 

2. People not understanding their conscious and unconscious needs/desires  

3. Not interacting with and not relating to a high variety of other individuals 

4. Not developing supreme communication skills 

5. Not learning to read non-verbal communication (eye contact, body language, tone of voice, micro-expressions)  

6. Allowing insecurities to get triggered 

7. Not understanding each persons masculine to feminine ratio (or lead to relax ratio) - every individual has a bit of both

8. Not understanding the human condition: why we goal seek, why it will never stop and how to live in the moment.

Rocket Mindset addresses all of these in video lessons and the private 1:1 coaching and mentoring.

‍Looking ahead, can you tell us more about your plans for conferences and founder/leadership training at various institutions? How do you envision these efforts furthering your mission to positively impact humanity?

Global conferences, clubhouses and workshops are in the planning stages. They are just different manifestations of the videos and private coaching and mentoring. Some are more scalable and some accommodate different learning styles, but the content is the same. All of this develops individuals to understand themselves, collaborate better, understand business, build great companies and positively impact the world at scale. 

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