Dave Mathews
Inventor, investor, and advisor in San Francisco.
As the advising CTO in the Venture Builder Studio, we take startups from all over the world to help them through product focus, software development and customer growth.
As co-host of What's Next Wall St. we cover trends in the stock market, security, AI and talk about the good and bad of Web3.
As a human, I'm a driven creative with more than 70 patents granted, a hardware hacker, car restorer and gadget tinkerer.
As a leader, my team created the first consumer barcode scanner, the CueCat and later created a Peer to Peer device discovery, messaging and location framework called NewAer. This is the evolution of the QR code and NFC tag.
In the past, I was a founding contributor for Make Magazine, former freelancer for PC Magazine, 2600 and a handful of industry publications. I've been a frequent technology guest host on podcasts like This Week in Startups, as well as Tech TV's The Screen Savers, G4 TV's Attack of the Show and several ZDTV and Revision 3 programs as well.
In the late 1990's, I was the Gadget Guy on the TV series Net Talk Live and Net Talk Interactive, hosting more than 300 shows. After that I was a producer and on-air personality on other broadcast news networks like Texas Cable News along with other broadcast news programs.
As a hardware inventor, I was part of the early product development teams for Slingbox, and Boxee, after being the in-house inventor at RadioShack back in the early 2000's.
On the leadership team for the non-profit Big Imagination, we brought a 747 as the largest moving art stage to Burning Man, as CTO and team lead who designed and built a 300,000 LED computerized network of immersive 3D light within it. Watch for the fuselage rebirth under Area15's curation in Vegas!