Matthew Balsei

I enjoy spending time with family and friends, world-changing technologies, investing, and beautiful business models.

More on my background:

• Grew up 50% in Michigan and 50% in Shanghai, China (where I graduated high school)
• Graduated from University of Michigan Ross School of Business as an undercover Ohio State fan
• Started my career in tech banking at Goldman Sachs, with over $150B of transactional M&A and IPO experience
• 4 years of tech investing at TPG; founding member of a small task force focused on global AI investment themes
• Now working on letting people turn dreams into games with natural language

Core principles:

• Journey before destination
• Everyone can benefit a little by rooting for the underdogs
• Nice guys finish first, not last (assuming you work hard)
• The perfect ratio of optimism and being a devil's advocate unlocks tremendous value
• Great things happen when you just do things

I do personal investing on the side. You can email me at matthew.balsei@gmail.com.

To give you a flavor of what is possible, here are a few recent games I built or remixed with AI:

1. Truthless of Shinovar (inspired by The Way of Kings): truthless-of-shinovar.vercel.app
   • Inspired by and remixed off of: snowflow-lilac.vercel.app
2. Pirate Ship Royale: broadside-royale.vercel.app