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Introduction
Matt
Welcome back to Making Media. Today, we are joined by Ben Springwater, Founder of Matter. Now we could call Matter a reading app. We could call it an evolution of the original read-it-later apps, but any classification that we try to give it seems to understate all that Matter is building or has built already.
We talked to a lot of traditional media operators on the show, but Ben falls slightly outside that box. There are constant frustrations about how we get served media. There's infinite content, and it's harder and harder to separate the good from the bad. I experienced this personally and a lot of people share their frustrations with me as well.
In my eyes, Ben is working to solve that problem. We had a fun conversation about what it's like to build a product like Matter. So there's the technical challenges, there's the human challenges and then there's how Matter's team thinks about making those decisions. It was very interesting to get Ben's perspective there.