Matthew Slotkin
Chief Product Officer at Fortell
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Slotkin is a product-oriented technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience building startups and leading product at the intersection of AI, enterprise software, and energy. He co-founded Vowel (acquired by Zapier) after raising over $15M and now serves as Chief Product Officer at Fortell while advising and co-founding Blue Energy to industrialize modular nuclear deployment. His background includes hands-on product and engineering roles at Bridgewater Associates on a team led by Dave Ferrucci, giving him deep experience translating research-grade AI work into production products. Matthew combines entrepreneurial grit with institutional rigor from Bridgewater and an interdisciplinary academic foundation in Ethics, Politics & Economics from Yale, plus study at Tsinghua. He’s drawn to hard technical and regulatory problems—seen in his pivot from AI-first tools to decarbonization infrastructure—and is comfortable moving between strategic fundraising, product-market fit, and technical execution.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Ethics Politics & Economics, Bachelor's degree Ethics Politics & Economics at Yale UniversityTsinghua University
Chinese
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Github Skills (60)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
smatt989/bee
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 59 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
smatt989/spool
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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