Dave Mathews on Clubhouse

Bio

Maker, builder, fixer, inventor. What is clubhouse for you? It reminds me of 1996 SXSW Interactive meets 2003 FooCamp. Or is it talk radio for an OCD/on-demand generation?

¶ Bio: Back in ‘97 I was a cofounder of the CueCat, a first IOT device consumer barcode reader. Time Magazine called that the worst invention of the decade - next to Segway and Microsoft Bob.

¶ In 2003 RadioShack hired me to help them with product creation. That was fun and we made a lot of cool Internet of Things. But we didn’t know to call them that, back then.

¶ In 2006, I helped the team at Slingbox compress video and send it through your firewall from your TiVo to wherever you were in the world. Before the cloud had legal content.

¶ Back in 2009 I worked with Tapulous to design a game with music from the Black Eyed Peas. It went #1 in iTunes its second day.

¶ For the past decade I’ve been leading a team building software to let machines talk to machines automatically when you walk into a room. We made a physical/proximity cookie for the real world. TBD on why that will be super cool.

¶ These days our team is helping restaurant owners be more profitable with safety during and post pandemic. That engine for food and beverage order & payment automation is called OneDine.

¶ For fun, I taught a bunch of dusty people how to solder 250,000 LEDs in the convertible husk of a 747 which drove slowly around an ancient former lake bed. Our business model was smiles per hour.

¶ I’ve been lucky enough to have spoken about gadgets on 300+ TV shows and a bunch of podcasts. Our latest is What’s Next Wall Street - explaining NFT and Stocks & the Blocks.

¶ Find me on the socials @ggdm