Matt Mireles

 

Matt Mireles is an American technology entrepreneur & investor who transforms science fiction into reality.

 Matt is founder/CEO of OASIS, a research lab focused on AI-enhanced human communication.

Matt co-founded Dishcraft Robotics, a maker of dishwashing robots for restaurants. He also co-founded SpeakerText , an text-based AI interface for video (acquired). He is an angel investor in 30+ startups, including Crusoe Energy, C16 Bio, Kinside, Quit Genius & Oxygen.

Previously, Matt was an award-winning journalist. His writings, photographs & multimedia stories were published in The New York Times, Newsweek and Time, amongst others. 

After fighting forest fires in Alaska & Western US on a US Forest Service hotshot crew, Matt paid his way through Columbia University as a 911 paramedic in the South Bronx. 

 

Latest Writings

Anatomy of a (Good) Investor Update

Now that I'm an investor, I am on the receiving end of a lot of investor update emails from startups. Some are clear, consistent and excellent. Some are confusing, some are sporadic, many are bad. As an investor, the quality of a startup's communications...

The Challenge of Rolling Solo

Being a solo founder is hard. It's almost trite to say, but I'm in it and it's real. I'm not sure if it's just the fact that I'm a solo founder or the solo person employee. Even though I've started 3 companies before and had my fair share of success and failure, I'm...

Thanksgiving Letter to My Portfolio CEOs

Most people don’t get to work with people they admire so deeply. Most people don’t get to be as real with the people they work with. Most people do not get to be part of work that is so important.

Moral Courage: Not Taught at Harvard

An irony of facebook's situation. Sheryl got her MBA at Harvard. One of the most famous cases (Extra Strength Tylenol) in one of the most famous classes (Business History) she took: in 1982, someone put cyanide in Extra Strength Tylenol capsules and killed 7 people in...

How to Size a Market in 5 Minutes or Less

My basic approach to market sizing is this: # of potential customers x average selling price = Total Addressable Market Don’t know average selling price (aka ASP)? No problem. Then use economic value creation instead as an upper threshold for price. Economic value...

Rape & Justice in America

In college, I was in a serious, loving relationship with a woman who had been drugged, bound and violently raped by a man with the help of his two roommates. The date rape operation they devised was so evil and so calculated that I knew this could not have been the...

Poor. Hungry. Driven.

In hiring and investing, we are all biased. My bias? I bias toward and pattern match on PHDs: Poor. Hungry. Driven.  I look for people who've taken it on the chin in life and come back determined to win. I look for hustlers who've risen beyond their station in life. ...

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