🏔️ From Campfires to Comebacks: How Kevin Timm Rebuilt After a Brutal Business Split

About this episode

Kevin Timm shares his journey of rebuilding after a brutal business split in the outdoor recreation industry.

Entrepreneurship is often marketed as an exciting adventure filled with innovation, growth, and endless opportunity. What gets discussed far less often are the difficult moments behind the scenes — founder disputes, intellectual property battles, broken partnerships, operational stress, and the emotional challenge of rebuilding after major setbacks. In this episode of The Inventive Journey , Devin Miller sits down with entrepreneur Kevin Timm to discuss the realities of building businesses in the outdoor recreation industry and what happens when entrepreneurial momentum collides with conflict. Kevin shares his journey from developing innovative outdoor and camping products to navigating one of the toughest situations any founder can face: a brutal business split that changed the direction of his entrepreneurial path. Throughout the conversation, Kevin explains how innovation initially drove his passion for entrepreneurship. Like many founders, he identified opportunities to improve products and create better experiences for customers who genuinely relied on performance, functionality, and reliability. The outdoor industry is highly competitive and heavily driven by product…

People in this episode

Host: Devin Miller

Guest: Kevin Timm

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• business split
• outdoor products
• innovation
• founder disputes
• rebuilding

Keywords

• entrepreneurship
• business split
• outdoor industry
• innovation
• founder disputes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Inventive Journey, outdoor recreation industry

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