Meet the speaker:

Matt Lerner

Founder & CEO,

Startup Core Strengths

Matt spent most of his career building and running marketing teams in Silicon Valley, notably at PayPal. After moving to London, he became a VC and developed and led 500 Startups “Distro Dojo” growth accelerator, which helped 35 startups achieve average YoY growth of 250%. Now Matt runs Startup Core Strengths, which helps startups learn the foundational mindset and habits to drive sustainable growth. Matt occasionally lectures on Startup Marketing at Imperial College and Stanford Business School.

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Talks & Content

2022

Matt Lerner – Startup Growth From First Principles

Matt shares how a chat with a theoretical physicist upturned his mental model of startup growth and revealed the two starting assumptions every great startup works from.

2021

Matt Lerner – Finding Focus – Your North Star Metric

Good morning, everybody. I’m really honoured and proud to be on this stage. I don’t know how many of you know Brian, how much history you have, but he doesn’t just throw people up on this stage. This is a very highly curated event, and I’m really proud to be here today.