Podcast #52 | Matt Blumberg on Startup Boards

In episode #52 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with Matt Blumberg, the founder and CEO of Bolster, a marketplace for on-demand executive and board talent.

Matt has served on numerous boards and chaired many of them, including public company, private company, nonprofit, local community, educational, and trade association boards. Through Bolster, Matt has helped place dozens of directors with private and public companies, as well as advised many CEOs on building and running their boards.

Matt is also the author of 3 books: Startup CEO: A field guide to scaling up your business, Startup CXO: A field guide to scaling up your company’s critical functions and teams, and the forthcoming Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors, the second edition of the book by Brad Feld and Mahendra Ramsinghani.

In this podcast, Matt and Evan talk about startup boards, the role of independent directors, Matt’s “Rule of Ones” for startup boards, boardroom diversity, the current funding and exit environments, challenges for CEOs managing their boards, and more corporate governance related matters.

You can listen to the episode directly at https://boardroom-governance.com/episodes/matt-blumberg (where you can find the show notes), or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts such as in: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or Stitcher.

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