About the Matthews

Matthew R. Mottola

Matthew R Mottola builds the human cloud, the digital and remote model of work that over half the US workforce will transition to within the next seven years.

Matthew is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Venture L, the leading platform for freelancers to run their business.

Matthew has led and transformed today’s leading companies. At Microsoft, in joint partnership with Upwork, he built the Microsoft 365 freelance toolkit - the unlock for enterprises to embrace the human cloud at scale - bringing Microsoft from nascent to an industry leader in under two years. At Gigster, he built Ideation - a service that used freelance developers, data scientists, and product managers to consistently generate what should be built in the software development lifecycle. At Georgia Tech, he helped develop the entrepreneurship curriculum with Faculty of the Year awardee Arn Rubinoff and guest lectures.

Matthew is a recognized voice for leadership teams, public investors, and media. His work has been featured by Forbes and Fortune to name a few. He is an international keynote speaker, speaking at leading conferences Remote Work Summit and YPO’s Innovation Week to name a few. He is the author of StartUp Not StartDown, upcoming book The Human Cloud, and contributor to leading industry reports.

Matthew’s fun fact: He was unknowingly filmed in a Chinese Viagra promo. Somewhere in China, expect to see me with a thumbs up behind the words erectile dysfunction.

Matthew’s Media Kit

Matthew Coatney

Matthew is a seasoned technology executive, entrepreneur, advisor, author, and speaker focused on scaling up organizations and bringing advanced technologies to market in the fields of artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, data analytics, cloud computing, and digital content. He’s led divisions and portfolios for large global corporations, co-founded three companies and advised several others, been an early-stage employee of two successful tech startups, and launched multiple successful products.

He has a wide range of industry experience spanning technology, content, law, life sciences, government, and finance and have helped some of the largest, most well-known organizations in the world, including Microsoft, IBM, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pfizer, Deloitte, and HP.

He writes and speaks frequently on business and advanced technology topics. In addition to a TED talk and keynotes, his work has been published by MIT and O'Reilly and has appeared in books, journals, and international conferences.

Matthew’s fun fact: He was a punker in high school (admittedly he was a big teddy bear underneath the black trenchcoat and skull rings). At different times he had blue, green, and blond hair. Take that, Corporate America.

Matthew Coatney

Matthew is a seasoned technology executive, entrepreneur, advisor, author, and speaker focused on scaling up organizations and bringing advanced technologies to market in the fields of artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, data analytics, cloud computing, and digital content. He’s led divisions and portfolios for large global corporations, co-founded three companies and advised several others, been an early-stage employee of two successful tech startups, and launched multiple successful products.

He has a wide range of industry experience spanning technology, content, law, life sciences, government, and finance and have helped some of the largest, most well-known organizations in the world, including Microsoft, IBM, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pfizer, Deloitte, and HP.

He writes and speaks frequently on business and advanced technology topics. In addition to a TED talk and keynotes, his work has been published by MIT and O'Reilly and has appeared in books, journals, and international conferences.

Matthew’s fun fact: I was a punker in high school (admittedly I was a big teddy bear underneath the black trenchcoat and skull rings). At different times I had blue, green, and blond hair. Take that, Corporate America.