Matt Hodan - Filed under 'ActiveRecord'

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About Me

Matt Hodan is a entrepreneur, investor, and technologist.

Matt began his career in finance, working for two years as an Analyst at J.P. Morgan. While at J.P. Morgan, Matt provided strategic M&A advisory services to leading companies.

After J.P. Morgan, Matt worked for two years as an Associate at Genstar Capital, a middle-market private equity investment firm. While at Genstar Capital, Matt identified investment opportunities, executed new acquisitions, and monitored portfolio investments.

After Genstar Capital, Matt joined Y-Combinator and started two companies: Data Marketplace and Smart Shortcuts. Data Marketplace is an online marketplace for tabular data. Smart Shortcuts is an Excel productivity add-in for financial analysts.

Matt has been programming since childhood, and has developed applications in C, C++, C#, VB.NET, VBA, Perl, Java, PHP, and Ruby. Today, Matt spends most of his time creating new Ruby on Rails web applications.

Matt received a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University in 2005. When he's not working, Matt loves to play tennis, snow ski, sail, play piano, invest, and talk about new business ideas.