Matt makes products that help people do the thing they actually care about, and tinkers with side projects after hours.

Matt has spent the last fifteen years trying to make complicated tools feel like simple ones. He's currently a staff PM at Gusto, working on payroll and benefits products that small business owners shouldn't have to dread opening on the 14th of the month. Before Gusto he led consumer product at Google, and before that he was at Spotify, mostly working on the parts of the app you only notice when something's broken.

He cares about AI tools that save someone an actual hour of their day, the texture of small civic software, and the kind of hardware that does one thing well and then stops asking for attention. Empty states, failure modes, the third tab nobody opens.

Outside of work he hikes with his family (mostly the San Gabriels, sometimes farther afield), tinkers with weird gadgets at a desk that's slowly overtaking the kitchen, bikes when his back lets him, boulders badly but happily, and disappears into a video game for a couple of weeks once or twice a year.