Matt Blumberg: Startup Boards.

Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk 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. He is currently the board chair of Bolster as well as Path Forward, a nonprofit he co-founded in 2016, whose mission is to empower women to restart their careers after time spent focused on caregiving. 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, we 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, some regional differences, and more on startup board matters. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com