Mat Sherman

When first investing in startups, the common advice is to invest in 20-30 of them so you can ramp up your pattern recognition, get experience to see what you like and don’t like, and optimize your chances of actually getting into a winner or two. As with any investing

Every investor out there is looking to make their money go the farthest when investing. One of the best ways to accomplish this is by investing in undervalued assets that get more valuable over time. Regardless of the asset class, whether it be real estate, bonds, gold, or stocks, the

I wrote a post a few months ago that outlined my investment thesis fairly well, with the overall essence being that investors should invest in missionaries. It’s common knowledge that investing in missionaries is good because they are resilient, won’t give up, and will persist until they find

The future of education is a concept that I think a lot about, and also have worked within in recent years. Besides spending a little under a year at Prenda, a YC backed EdTech startup in Phoenix AZ, I also spend a lot of timing interviewing edTech founders on my

What I told you I could predict the future of Clubhouse? That I knew the social dynamics that could occur when it opens to the public, what will work and what won’t, and where they could fall and join a large graveyard of drop-in social apps? Well, it turns

I’ve been seeing people on Twitter talk about how VR is dead, and if it wasn’t, COVID shelter in place would have been its moment to shine. The common thought from these people is along the lines of the following. “Everyone is stuck in their houses for months

There’s no other way to say it. I’m nearly obsessed with Panera. Ever since I started PubLoft inside of Panera in 2017, I can’t get over how well equipped this company is to cater to the working class of the future. In Old Town Scottsdale, I go

People have been trying to make money on the internet since its inception. From the early days of Paypal, to the rush of building games on top of Facebook and iOS, to being an early musician on Youtube, and riding the wave up to today. People have always been in

Recently, many startups have been using avatars in their core product thesis. For the longest time, having an avatar had no real use case, other than interacting with your niche group or game on the internet. I think that narrative is shifting a bit. The smart founders know we will

When you think of the consumer sector, what are some companies that cross your mind? Snapchat? Facebook? TikTok? These are usually the types of products that fall under the category of consumer. Consumer products are risky, need virality to exist, and rely on hundreds of millions of users to be

I recently listened to this podcast all about education. They mentioned that it’s complicated and difficult to reform education, and it didn’t sound like they had much hope for companies in the education space to create a better system. This was hard to hear, but I understood. One

What is Y Combinator? If you ask anyone in the bay area that, they’ll likely call it an accelerator for startups who want to reach a billion-dollar valuation. Some may still call it an incubator. Others could refer to it as a VC firm. After doing some digging, there

LinkedIn is a juggernaut. They built a really great product, and Microsoft just made it 20x better. Even with the poor UX design and the spammy inMails I sift through every other day, they have a chokehold on the professional services network market, not allowing its competitors much room to