Oct 1, 2026 · 48 min · 10 segments
When Matt Crane moved back to Boston after a decade in the San Francisco startup scene, he kept asking everyone one question: "What are the five best startups in Boston?" Nobody could name five. So he…
So just a few, just take us back to how you started MGMT Boston because you had moved from SF, right? And based on what I know, you were like, hey, I don't recognize this scene at all.
You go out West and then you come back and you're like, what is this? How do I, I don't, I don't recognize it.
I think the important part is I went through a period of transition in my life when I was 25, which is I was working on an institutional equity sales and trading desk, rolling into work every day at 7.30 and was like, man, printing everything out for everybody, grabbing the lunch order.
Met a lot of great people, learned a lot of great things, but it was just, I was like, this is not what I want to be doing with my life.
So I'd been through that, kind of quit that job, had a friend who was being relocated out to San Francisco, rolled out there with him and was like, I just want to try to break into the startup scene.
Honestly, a phenomenal run, which was a lot of luck timing and meeting great people.
I was at two companies out there, the second of which I joined as the 20th employee.
And then- Kind of going into that, some of the things that I probably talk about a little bit less is like, you know, right before COVID, my first son was born.
So just a few, just take us back to how you started MGMT Boston because you had moved from SF, right? And based on what I know, you were like, hey, I don't recognize this scene at all.
You go out West and then you come back and you're like, what is this? How do I, I don't, I don't recognize it.
I think the important part is I went through a period of transition in my life when I was 25, which is I was working on an institutional equity sales and trading desk, rolling into work every day at 7.30 and was like, man, printing everything out for everybody, grabbing the lunch order.
Met a lot of great people, learned a lot of great things, but it was just, I was like, this is not what I want to be doing with my life.
So I'd been through that, kind of quit that job, had a friend who was being relocated out to San Francisco, rolled out there with him and was like, I just want to try to break into the startup scene.
Honestly, a phenomenal run, which was a lot of luck timing and meeting great people.
I was at two companies out there, the second of which I joined as the 20th employee.
And then- Kind of going into that, some of the things that I probably talk about a little bit less is like, you know, right before COVID, my first son was born.
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