This week marks the end of my 4.5+ years of employment at Immersive Labs. I’ve worked with amazing people on some really interesting stuff in that time, but I've decided that the time has come to try something new. I have received so many kind words of support from those I’m saying goodbye to, support which I’ll be printing out and sticking to my home office walls, for the moments of extreme self doubt that lay ahead ??.
As for what's next... my aspiration is to co-found something of my own. For the past 10 years working in startups and scaleups, I have worn a great many hats; backend, frontend, devops, data engineer, SRE, tech. PM, eng. leadership. I would love to apply all of that knowledge taking something from zero to one.
The obvious question everyone has quite reasonably asked is, what’s my idea?
The problem is, I don’t have one! Well, I have many, but they are probably bad. The problem area I am most keen to work on is accelerating the net zero emissions transition, or at least where software plays a significantly role in it, such as energy management or home retrofit. I have not worked in these industries though, just a growing obsession with them.
With that in mind I have a favour to ask. If you have experience in an industry in this space, and a desire to found, please get in touch! And if you know someone who fits that bill, please do repost. While my aspiration is to co-found, I’m also interested in senior roles in early stage startups too.
Many thanks,
Matt
In the meantime, I’ll be taking some long overdue offline time… see you in a couple weeks!