Matthew is a media entrepreneur & Sundance awarded film producer based in Beverly Hills, California. In 2010, at the age of 22 – he founded Buffalo 8 Productions – a feature film & commercial production company with talent management & post-production divisions. In 2013, he founded the media debt financing firm BondIt – which has completed over 150 media financing transactions to date.

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• BondIt – Matthew’s latest venture
• Losing My Virginity – Matthew’s Best Business Book
• [email protected]– reference FIRE for a 50% discount

3 Key Points:

1. Grasp your market opportunity.
2. Don’t own all the liability.
3. Be concise—when you ramble, you lose people.

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Time Stamped Show Notes

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• [00:48] – John introduces Matthew to the show
• [00:56] – Matthew’s background
• [04:41] – How Matthew generates revenue
• [05:39] – Bootstrapping from the ground up
• 06:04 – Buffalo8
• [07:58] – Worst Entrepreneur Moment
• [10:00] – Be carefull about putting everybody under your liability—put them under your LLC’s liability
• [11:12] – When you have 40 people on payroll you’re looking at $350K in debt
• [14:34] – Understand the liability you hold project to project, client to client—be diversified
• [16:35]– Biggest Weakness?—Not being able to remain singularly focused
• [18:16] – Biggest Strength? – Building various businesses under one roof
• [19:39] – Fired up about? – BondIt and the FinTech space
• [20:59] – The Lightning Round
  • What was holding you back as an entrepreneur?—Understanding market opportunity
  • What is the best advice you have ever received?—Get busy working on your own dreams, otherwise you’ll end up working on someone else’s!
  • What is a personal habit that contributes to your success?—Have a consistent morning routine
  • Share an internet resource, like Evernote, with Fire Nation—Slack
  • One book to have on your bookshelf?—Losing My Virginity

• 27:08 – [email protected] and reference FIRE for a 50% discount
• [27:53] – With hustle and unrelenting persistence—opportunity will come

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