Monitor Deloitte

But Matthew's perspective was shaped long before venture capital.

He spent 21 years advising Fortune 500 CEOs, boards, and leadership teams through firms including McKinsey, A.T. Kearney, and the Monitor Group.

He later stepped inside the corporate world as a senior executive at Gap, working across strategies, corporate development, and global marketing.

He's also the best-selling author, whose book includes The Fifth Era, Blockchain Competitive Advantage, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era, Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era, The Ministry of Bitcoin, and Second Chance.

One was for a European commission in Brussels.

The other one was to go back to Italy because I was in London back then to join a boutique consulting company that was called back then Monitor Group.

Later on, it would be acquired by Deloitte and it's called Monitor Deloitte.

And I had to choose between these two.

And I chose strategy consulting.

I went back to Milan.

And what I loved about Monitor Group is not only the content of the job, but also the fact that they were very clear from the beginning of the recruiting process saying, We hire you out of the Italian office, but we treat you as EMEA.

So we're going to send you around a lot.