Matt Hershenson
| Matt Hershenson | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of Michigan |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Employer | Playground Global |
Matt Hershenson is a co-founder and managing director at Playground Global, a venture fund and design studio providing resources, mentorship and funding to startups making hardware devices.[1] Hershenson also co-founded Danger, a consumer smartphone company best known for creating the T-Mobile Sidekick.[2][3]
At Danger, he served as SVP of Advanced Projects[4] where he was responsible for day-to-day operations, hardware engineering, development and design.[5] Hershenson has also held positions at Google,[2] working on the Android team alongside Playground and Danger co-founder Andy Rubin,[1] as well as at Philips and Apple.[5]
Education
Hershenson studied physics at the University of Michigan.[5]
References
- 1 2 "Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him Do the Same With AI". WIRED. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- 1 2 "Andy Rubin gets Danger back together at Google to work on Android hardware". Fortune. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ "The History of the Sidekick: The Coolest Smartphone of All Time". Complex. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ "Matt Hershenson - SVP of Advanced Products (Founder) @ Danger | CrunchBase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- 1 2 3 "Matt Hershenson: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". Businessweek.com. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
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