Matt Hershenson | |
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Education | University of Michigan |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Employer | Playground Global |
Matt Hershenson is a co-founder and managing director at Playground Global, a venture fund and design studio providing resources, mentorship and funding to startups making hardware devices. Hershenson also co-founded Danger, a consumer smartphone company best known for creating the T-Mobile Sidekick.
At Danger, he served as SVP of Advanced Projects where he was responsible for day-to-day operations, hardware engineering, development and design. Hershenson has also held positions at Google, working on the Android team alongside Playground and Danger co-founder Andy Rubin, as well as at Philips and Apple.
Hershenson studied physics at the University of Michigan.