"Facebook did not actually build all the pieces necessary to make it possible for you to post to their app. Instead, they use free, public code, made available on the Internet by volunteers for anybody to use."
- “I grew up feeling like I was stupid and wasn’t going to go anywhere. It was because the whole traditional system didn’t work for me. I would go to class, but I can’t memorize things… I’m not good at following directions… I felt this desperate yearning for the first two decades of my life —this feeling of perpetual inadequacy.” – David Perell
The more Springwater and Mackenzie thought about it, the more they thought they could build a better way. What they built became an app called Matter, a combination of a read-later app and a discovery engine for great content. Ultimately, Springwater said, it could be even more. "Reading right now is really simple," he said. "It's text on a page.... See more