Hi, I’m Matt. When I was 11, my parents sent me to live the life of a Chinese kid with a local family in Beijing. For a year. It seems crazy in retrospect, but that was the domino that set my life on its course. That year led me to return and spend a summer in an orphanage when I was 16 years old. There, I was introduced to true tragedy. Seeing kids in such need led me to find them families. That grew into the China Care Foundation, which has helped thousands of kids. In some sense, my childhood consisted of realizing I could help kids, even if I was one.

That stuck with me.

Today, I build products that can change lives. I believe that every teenager should be a creator. Technology is shaping our children’s lives, but they should be the ones shaping their technology. I founded Endless to make it so that everyone can learn to create the future.

I am on a mission to teach 21st Century skills like coding, design, digital art and management. This involves three pillars: First, Endless Studios is a youth game making studio that teaches the skills of Silicon Valley through the power of games. Teens love games. We lean into that. The second two pillars are about ensuring that *everyone* can have it. Device affordability and internet access prevent billions of people from being equal citizens of the world. Endless is harnessing the power of clever financing and storage to solve these problems. The Endless dream is one in which the whole world is empowered. In which every kid is a creator.

You can learn more about the ideas that I am so passionate about by reading my blog here.