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The Drunken Walk explores the personal narratives of inspiring media entrepreneurs, unpacking the messiness of what it takes to build something from scratch. Success doesn’t happen because of a perfect plan. Hypothesis-testing, action, learnings, and adjustments are all a necessary part of innovation. And sometimes the dead-ends and changes of direction don’t make sense until viewed in retrospect, as a “drunken walk” full of highs and lows. This podcast is produced by Matter Ventures. We sup ...
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Jill Koziol, Co-Founder and CEO of Motherly (and Matter Five alum!), joined us in San Francisco for a conversation with Matter Eight entrepreneurs. Pete Mortensen, Director of Program in San Francisco, talked with Jill about the incredible growth that Motherly has seen over the last few years.Initially, Jill says, their growth was slow, but steady.…
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Deepa Subramanian started out as a physics major and switched to computer science when she realized how much she loved that kind of problem solving. Since then, she has been a product manager at all kinds of of companies, from tech giants like Adobe to non-profits like Charity: Water-she even spearheaded the product direction with Hillary for Ameri…
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For this week’s speaker series, we were lucky to welcome a longtime member of our community back to Matter. Jennifer Brandel, CEO of Hearken and Matter Four entrepreneur, joined us in New York City where she and Roxann Stafford, our Director of Program there, sat down to talk about her “Drunken Walk” as an entrepreneur who really sought to change t…
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Caitlin Kalinowski, Product Design Director at Oculus VR, joined us for the second time at Matter in San Francisco to share tips for better prototyping with our latest cohort. This time it was off-the-record, so we’re re-airing our episode with Caitlin from last season.Caitlin has been a designer for over ten years and got her start at Apple as one…
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Kaitlyn Jankowski, better known among friends and colleagues as KJ, is Head of Marketing at theSkimm. In her conversation with Roxann Stafford, Director of Program in New York City, KJ talked about the dedication and passion it takes to go on the drunken walk of the entrepreneur. As someone who has spent most of her professional life working at sta…
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In this episode of The Drunken Walk, a series that follows the ups and downs of what it means to be an entrepreneur, we spoke with Gaby Darbyshire, Principal at Framestore Ventures. Gaby sat down with Roxann Stafford, our Director of Program in New York City, to speak in front of an audience of Matter Eight entrepreneurs who just started their 20-w…
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We’re back with the first episode of Season Three of The Drunken Walk! Our eighth class of media startups just started their 20–week journey through Matter in San Francisco and New York City. Rebecca Kaden joined us for the first speaker series in San Francisco to talk to entrepreneurs and share her perspective as an investor and, to moreover, a fo…
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We’ve been bringing you live pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day. You’ve heard from eleven teams so far—The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, Rewire, CivNet, DADA, Nametag, and SmartFeed. To close the show is Purple. Purple allows independent writers to build membership businesses by leveraging the per…
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We’ve been sharing pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day for the past two weeks. So far you’ll have heard from The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, Rewire, CivNet, DADA, and Nametag.There’s two more to go, and next on stage is SmartFeed. SmartFeed helps parents find and organize great shows, apps, books…
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We’re sharing pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day — including Thanksgiving! So far you’ll have heard from The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, Rewire, CivNet, and DADA. Today, tune in to hear about Nametag, a platform for deeper, more intimate online conversations that are free of harassment.If you’re…
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We’re bringing you live pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day. So far we’ve shared The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, Rewire, and CivNet.Now on stage: DADA. DADA is a social network where people speak to each other through drawings, channeling collaborative art into a marketplace that redefines what i…
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So far in the Demo Day special you’ve heard The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, and Rewire. We’re bringing you all twelve live pitches from Matter Seven every day until Saturday.Tune in today to discover CivNet, a tool that enables small, informal groups to effectively centralize communications across email and text…
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We’re halfway through this Drunken Walk special, bringing you live pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day. So far you’ve heard The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, and In the Room.Now meet Rewire. Rewire makes secure, end-to-end encrypted email usable by all. If you missed last week’s episodes, start with the Demo Da…
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We’re bringing you live pitches from Demo Day every single day for the next week. So far you’ve met Matter Seven entrepreneurs from The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, and Multimer.In this episode you’ll hear from In the Room, a mobile app that allows you to connect with people in the geographical area near you during events, get-together…
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We’re bringing you live pitches from Matter Seven entrepreneurs every single day. So far you’ve heard The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, and Vigilant. Now on stage, Multimer. Multimer helps quantify population sentiment in any given space by measuring and analyzing biosensor data for better decisions based on human signals. If you’re just joining …
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We’re continuing to bring you live pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day. So far we’ve heard from The Establishment, Grafiti, and Gretta. Tune in today to find out more about Vigilant, a search platform and data aggregation API that connects users with information from thousands of public records databases. If you’re just joining us, …
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We’re continuing our Demo Day Special series, bringing you live pitches from our Matter Seven entrepreneurs every single day. So far we’ve heard from The Establishment and Grafiti. Now, meet Gretta, the social platform for podcasts. If you’re just joining us, start with the Demo Day intro and catch up on the full show. Watch the video here.…
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Over the next two weeks we’re bringing you Demo Day Specials — live pitches from each of the twelve Matter Seven teams. First up was The Establishment. In this episode Farhan Mustafa presents Grafiti, an app that allows you to easily share visualized, trusted data across current events, business, culture and sports in order to have smarter, fact-ba…
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In our second season, so far, you’ve heard from the speakers who have accompanied Matter Seven throughout their 20-week journey. Now, it’s time for you to hear from the entrepreneurs themselves. We’re bringing you a thirteen-part series of Matter Seven’s Demo Day, starting with an intro from Corey Ford, our Managing Director. Listen to Corey’s talk…
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Andrea Turner Moffitt is the Co-Founder of Plum Alley Investments, a membership network that is thinking about funding in a new way. Plum Alley members are looking not only for financial returns, but also for the right teams to solve the most pressing problems.Andrea talked to Matter Seven entrepreneurs in New York City about how important it is to…
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Jennifer Tacheff, VP of Partnerships and Growth at Women Who Code, is building a community that promotes diversity in tech—and the response has been incredible. Over 100,000 members have joined them in just a couple years.Jennifer joined Matter Seven entrepreneurs in San Francisco to talk about how having a focused mission spurs growth, and, even m…
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Hannah Donovan has been a designer in digital media for over ten years—mostly working for startups. She’s led teams at Drip, The Echo Nest, and Vine, and co-founded This Is My Jam and Trash TV. In addition to startups, she’s also worked for big media names like MTV and CBS Interactive.Hannah joined Matter Seven entrepreneurs in New York City to tal…
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Chris Wilkes, VP at HearstLab, joined Matter Seven in New York City to talk about his experiences in media innovation and investing. Chris’s career in digital media has spanned over twenty years, and his latest venture, HearstLab, is a community of women-led startups working inside Hearst Tower. Tune in to his conversation with Matter’s Director of…
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Beth Viner is the GM at Kickstarter, where she supports the communities that use their platform. She makes sure that creators and backers have the best possible experience, facilitating the relationships that make crowdfunding work.Beth joined a room full of Matter Seven entrepreneurs in New York city to talk about her own path to leadership and ho…
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Christie George is the Executive Director at New Media Ventures, a seed fund and network of angel investors that supports media entrepreneurs who are working to create a more progressive society.Christie sat down with our San Francisco Director of Investments, Ben Werdmüller, to talk about how to invest in companies with a social mission without lo…
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Caitlin Kalinowski has been a designer at the forefront of cutting-edge technology for over a decade. She got her start at Apple as one of the lead designers on the MacBook Air before she left for Facebook. Now, she is the Head of Product Design at Oculus VR.Caitlin shared her Six Steps to Product Prototyping with a group of Matter Seven entreprene…
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Jeanne Brooks is the founder and CEO of Virago Futures, a venture that uses community design to rebuild systems to change the future of media. In a world that is more connected than ever, Virago Futures is finding ways to rethink and rebuild systems to make them accessible to all.Jeanne Brooks joined us in New York City to talk with Matter Seven en…
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Paul Quigley is the co-founder and CEO of NewsWhip, a platform that is using science to transform the media industry. NewsWhip is bridging the gap between the ever-increasing number of internet users and seemingly infinite content to give publishers the tools to engage their audiences with meaningful content.…
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Jane Metcalfe is the founder of NEO.LIFE, an online publication that makes sense of the neobiological revolution. Previously, she co-founded WIRED. As well as WIRED Magazine, the group owned HotBot, the internet’s fastest search engine at the time, invented the banner ad, won numerous awards, and practically invented online publishing. Most importa…
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Max Ventilla is the founder of AltSchool, a collaboration between engineers and educators to help build the future of education. He’s also an accomplished serial entrepreneur whose journey has taken him through Aardvark, Google and beyond.In this talk recorded at Matter in San Francisco, he discusses building a service culture and creating systems …
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Lindsay Stewart and Brian McNeill are the co-founders of Stringr, a startup that took part in Matter’s third class.Stringr allows media organizations to connect with professional and amateur videographers in order to source great footage. In this fireside chat with Roxann Stafford, our Director of Program in New York, they demystify the B2B sales c…
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Niles Lichtenstein was inspired to found The History Project by the memory of his father, and the moments they shared together. He and his team took part in Matter's fourth class; in this episode, he talks about his startup's journey from a very personal product at Demo Day to its current position as a way for enterprises to keep track of their ins…
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Camille Hearst is Founder and CEO at Kit, a community for helping to find the best products for any new activity or experience you want to have in your life. She cut her teeth at Apple on iTunes, and then YouTube and Google. In this episode, she discusses striving for excellence under time constraints - and the power of saying "no". Entrepreneurs h…
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Raju Narisetti is the CEO of Gizmodo Media Group. His journey is inspiring: from a dairy salesman to the head of a digital media group at the heart of Univision. He speaks with Roxann Stafford, Matter's Director of Program in New York, in a fireside chat recorded live with Matter Seven media entrepreneurs. Raju's experience speaks to what we acknow…
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Morgan DeBaun is the CEO and co-founder of Blavity. Together with her co-founders, Morgan figured out how to build a media business that isn’t dependent on a conventional advertising model while also elevating the voices of populations too often shut out of the media — all with a constant focus on mission, on the needs of her audience, and on proto…
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Jessica Lessin is a former Wall Street Journal reporter, now at the helm of the in-depth business/technology subscription publication, The Information. Before she founded The Information, Jessica was convinced that a select audience would pay for under-reported, exclusive, ad-free content pertinent to their sphere of work. And she was right. Today …
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Matt Hartman is the Director of Seed Investments at Betaworks. It's the quintessential media/tech investment firm, with an added twist: it also develops its own products in an adjacent studio. It has spun out a slew of successful media startups including Giphy, Chartbeat, and Dots, and it’s also invested in early-stage media companies such as the a…
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Melissa Bell is one of the co-founders of Vox.com, Vox Media’s news and opinion website, which she and Ezra Klein first started working on in the newsroom at The Washington Post. It was later launched, in just 9 short weeks, as part of the Vox Media empire. Melissa is now the organization’s Publisher, a role that combines her strengths as both a jo…
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Chloe Sladden has worked as an assistant to a literary agent, a management consultant in media, a director of documentary film, a VP at Current TV and Twitter, an angel investor and a startup mentor. She is currently on the board of Gannett. She has negotiated the intersections of media, technology, storytelling, and entrepreneurship with rare agil…
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Before she started Mattermark, Danielle Morrill dropped out of community college, worked in global logistics, was employee #1 at cloud communications startup Twilio, and shut down Referly, the online referrals company she built with her husband, less than a year after graduating from Y-Combinator. Her story is disarmingly honest and full of sass, l…
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In this fireside chat with our Managing Partner, Corey Ford, recorded before an audience of early-stage media entrepreneurs, Peter Koechley describes how it felt to “reverse engineer virality” and deal with the expectations instant success set. He talks about why Upworthy eventually abandoned “clickbait with a conscience” in favor of more original …
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