Interview with Matt Hooper, founder of LIVE! FROM TOMORROW

June 25, 2020

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Welcome to Innovating with Scott Amyx. I’m your host Scott. Today I am joined by Matt Hooper, founder of LIVE! FROM TOMORROW.

Started as a meetup in 2015, Live! From Tomorrow quickly grew into a stage show, featuring comedic sketches, serious interviews, and original music. In October 2018, LFT kicked off its first monthly live series in New York, staged at the SAP Leonardo Center in Hudson Yards. The show was then adapted for branded events, culminating in the ‘Blockchain on Broadway’ show last May during Blockchain Week NYC, where the LFT cast performed for a sold out audience of 350 seats in a theater on 47th Street. Following the Broadway show, Matt Hooper began to adapt his creation as a podcast, scripting this series. He called on Mark Levy (‘Pat Dreyfuss’, guitar, vocals) and Ben Easton (piano) to coauthor a number of the original songs and score. Anne Veal and Kelley Quinn, both regulars on the UCB stage, performed a number of voices on the show. Live! From Tomorrow is Executive Produced by Aron Kressner (Vox Media, Sundance Channel’s Lazy Environmentalist).

Matt was the first Vice President of Open Innovation at the Barclays Investment Bank where he launched Rise New York, the model for Barclays’ global fintech incubator programs. Prior to joining Barclays, Matt was a successful founder, and managing director of Startup NEXT NYC, which was acquired by Techstars. Matt started Live! From Tomorrow as a meetup for founders, innovation executives, and performers in 2015. Matt is also the host of the IBM branded Blockchain Pulse podcast.

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