Hey, I'm Matt Chow.

I've built embedded software and firmware. Shipped some code that runs on the Tesla Cybertruck and Zipline's autonomous delivery drones.

I studied computer engineering at the University of British Columbia where I won a bunch of awards to fund all of my undergrad. This included being the rank 1 engineering coop student and joining the Cansbridge Fellowship.

I learned to look for third doors, unconventional paths, and won scholarships that bought me time. I believe most systems are games or markets with enough inefficiencies to reward the curious.

I left what I thought was my dream job to travel the world looking for answers. I came home with a head full of questions. Here's my journal entry.

Then, I founded and led early startups across product and sales. This taught me how much I valued the people I work with, problem selection, and business.

Pitching to YC and a16z for a B2B SaaS was fun, but sometimes you don't need to take over the world. I [physically] shipped dating cards to customers across Canada/US and used to make fingerstyle guitar videos.

I believe intuition is the most undervalued skill - asking the right question at the right time and listening closely enough to understand what someone means before they have the words for it. A top-tier firmware engineer debugs faster because they narrow the search space with intentional questions when hardware and software are both misbehaving. The best salespeople, recruiters, and therapists do the same thing: they ask questions that reveal which problems are most valuable and quickly learn the quirks of someone's psychology.

This site is a growing collection of my questions and thoughts. Join my newsletter. It's good, I swear.