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Matthew Pierce

Matthew Pierce is an entrepreneur, university lecturer, and game designer. He is a former NCAA Champion and was a member of the United States Men's National Swim Team.

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Matthew Pierce
Pierce for O Labs
Born (1977-12-03) December 3, 1977
Denver, Colorado
Alma materStanford University (B.A.)
UCLA Anderson (M.B.A.)
OccupationsCo-founder & CEO, O Labs 1
SpouseMagdalena Sandoval

Matthew Pierce (born December 3, 1977) is an entrepreneur, university lecturer, and game designer. He is a former NCAA Champion and was a member of the United States Men's National Swim Team.

Early life

Matthew Pierce attended Stanford University, where he was a member of the men's swimming and diving team. The team won the NCAA Championship in 1998.2 Pierce was an All-American, an NCAA Champion in the 200-yard butterfly 3 and a gold medalist at the World University Games for USA Swimming.

Career

After graduating from Stanford, Pierce co-founded Rosum Corporation which was later acquired by TruePosition.4 He then moved to Los Angeles, received his MBA at UCLA Anderson and became VP of Strategy at Originate.

Matthew now serves as co-founder and CEO of O Labs,56 a joint venture between Originate, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, and ICM Partners. O Labs incubates and operates early-stage portfolio companies that attempt to address the needs of large enterprises.78 Pierce is a regular contributor to Southern California's Silicon Beach and the Los Angeles startup community.9

Pierce is a lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a visiting scholar in UCLA’s Economics Department, where he teaches entrepreneurship.

Pierce is also a game designer, serving as founder and chief creative officer of Robot Dinosaur Games. He created the game Scenarium1011 and co-founded Versus, a real-money video game tournament platform backed by O Labs.

References

References

  1. "O Labs".
  2. "Stanford University's Official Athletic Site - Men's Swimming - GoStanford.com - Stanford Athletics".
  3. "Stanford's NCAA Champions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 22, 2018.
  4. "TruePosition Acquires Intellectual Property from Rosum | Reuters". Reuters. August 8, 2014. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014.
  5. "Startup Incubator O Labs Launches From ICM, Law Firm Manatt and Design Firm Originate". The Hollywood Reporter. July 30, 2014.
  6. "Originate, Manatt & ICM pool expertise to launch new incubator O Labs".
  7. Times, Los Angeles (July 30, 2014). "Manatt, ICM, Originate launch O Labs, new investment arm for startups". Los Angeles Times.
  8. Seave, Ava. "Looking For Ugly Lets New Incubator Differentiate". Forbes.
  9. "Originate and the LA Tech Scene. A Chat with Matthew Pierce. - Reyhani Law".
  10. "Scenarium - a party game for storytellers". January 19, 2015.
  11. "Scenarium - A Party Game for Storytellers" – via Amazon.