Matt Humphrey

Current

• Generalist at Kickball Labs

Past

• Chief Executive Officer at Cloudant
• Chief Executive Officer at SlapVid
• Chief Strategy Officer at Eivod

• Chief Operating Officer at Envivial
• Software Design Engineer (Intern) at Microsoft
• Aladdin Summer Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Carnegie Mellon University

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Industry

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Matt Humphrey’s Summary

I have a passion for building businesses and have done a number of very cool things while dabbling in startups and academia. The next step is making something huge.

Right now I am doing really cool stuff at Kickball Labs.

Matt Humphrey’s Specialties:

Idea Generation, Problem Solving, Product Vision, Identifying Markets, Raising Capital, User Experience, Usage Analytics, Game Mechanics, User Incentives, Internet Virality, Consumer Internet, Content Delivery, Virtual Worlds

Matt Humphrey’s Experience

• Generalist

  Kickball Labs

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year)

  Doing consumer internet stuff.

• Chief Executive Officer

  Cloudant

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  August 2007 — October 2007 (3 months)

  We made firmware for really fast multi-streaming home routers. (Y-Combinator)

• Chief Executive Officer

  SlapVid

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

  Providing a unique and innovative online video experience by allowing users to preview content faster, better, and with less effort than ever. (Y-Combinator)

• Chief Strategy Officer

  Eivod

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

  Enhancing internet video-on-demand with an in-browser p2p content delivery platform for high quality video at a fraction of the cost. (Y-Combinator)

• Chief Operating Officer

  Envivial

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 9 months)

  Providing interactive virtual environments to power lifelike 3D online shopping.

• Software Design Engineer (Intern)

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

  Single-handedly redesigned the entire WebNews online forum system

• Aladdin Summer Researcher

  Carnegie Mellon University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)

  Carried out in-depth research on automated theorem proving to develop a computational model for the brain's process of analysis.