Matt has worked in the world of books for over a decade. After receiving a BA in English from UC Berkeley in 2004 he started in publishing by marketing books for Avalon, Jossey-Bass/Wiley, and then Farrar, Straus & Giroux as their Senior Publicist until 2009. Matt went on to receive his MBA from Columbia Business School in 2011. After business school Matt joined Amazon, where he was primarily a Senior Product Manager on their books team until 2015.