Matt Schlicht

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Creator

Moltbook

Jan 2026 - Current (7 months)

Investor

Gumloop

Apr 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)

CEO

Octane AI

May 2016 - Current (10 years 3 months)

Octane AI is re-imagining how ecommerce brands turn conversations into revenue. As the leading quiz and AI-funnels platform for Shopify, we give merchants the power to design product-finder quizzes and AI marketing flows—no code required. From first click to repeat purchase, Octane AI personalizes every touchpoint with real-time recommendations, dynamic bundles, and autonomous copy that learns and improves on its own. Built by a lean, product-obsessed team, Octane AI now powers 3,000+ brands, delivering 10-30 % lifts in AOV while reducing acquisition costs and churn. Our customers range from high-growth DTC icons like Jones Road Beauty and Ilia Beauty to global retailers rolling out AI personalization at scale. Profitable and backed by G

Founder and Editor

Chatbots Magazine

Apr 2016 - Current (10 years 4 months)

I started Chatbots Magazine in 2016 as place where the top bot and AI experts in the world could share knowledge and learn from each other about the chatbots industry. The publication gained initial popularity after I wrote my first chatbots article, "The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Chatbots", which has since been read over 500,000 times. Now Chatbots Magazine has over 1,000 contributing writers and over 250,000 people read it every month.

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Early Bitcoin Experiment

ZapChain

Jun 2014 - Mar 2016 (1 year 10 months)

I created ZapChain in 2013 as an experiment of combining an online community platform with microtransactions on the blockchain. ZapChain originally was a community of bitcoin professionals, investors, and enthusiasts, and at one point was the highest quality place for the top people in the industry to have discussions. Notable members included Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase), Roger Ver, Vitalik Buterin (Creator of Ethereum), Charlie Lee (Creator of Litecoin), and Brock Pierce. ZapChain users could post questions, or content, and then tip bitcoin to quality responses the community responded with. ZapChain later expanded to include communities for Virtual Reality, Drones, and Artificial Intelligence.

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Advisor

Socialcam

Oct 2011 - Jul 2012 (10 months)

Get more celebrities to use Social Cam, product recommendations based on celebrity usage.

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Side project

FriendShuffle

Sep 2010 - Dec 2010 (4 months)

FriendShuffle allows users to shuffle through content their friends have shared on Facebook and Twitter.

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Co-Founder and CEO

TracksBy Inc

Jun 2011 - May 2013 (2 years)

The most viral way to launch music online. TracksBy was created when the entertainment industry was starting to explore Facebook marketing. TracksBy enabled major musicians to launch their content virally on the platform. We worked with every major record label and hundreds of the world's top artists. TracksBy was part of Ycombinator in 2012.

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Side project

Its Trending

Apr 2010 - Sep 2010 (6 months)

ItsTrending.com shows the most shared content on Facebook.

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Business Development

UStreamtv

Jan 2008 - Sep 2008 (9 months)

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Product Manager

Ustream

Sep 2008 - Jun 2011 (2 years 10 months)

Joined Ustream full time as one of the first employees when I was 19, pre series A. Ustream is a platform that allows anyone to broadcast live video. This is now a technology you will find on many websites, like Facebook and YouTube, but back then nobody had ever done it before. We had Snoop Dogg talking to fans live on Ustream, live speeches from Obama during his campaign, and a group of Shiba Inu puppies that went so viral they ending up on the Today Show. While at Ustream I was responsible for: • Increasing viewership. • Increasing users. • Innovating on live video functionality. • Integrating viral functionality. Ustream has since been acquired by IBM.

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Business Development

Ustream

Jan 2008 - Sep 2008 (9 months)

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Side project

Openhulu

Dec 2007 - Mar 2008 (4 months)

OpenHulu was a public version of Hulu.com (launched when Hulu was in beta). It has thousands of free and legal TV shows that are available to watch at any time. Progress on OpenHulu stopped after joining up with Ustream.tv.

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Web Designer

Gevirtz Media

Oct 2007 - Jan 2008 (4 months)

• Designing web sites, product landing pages, and banner ads.

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Side project

WouldYou

Sep 2007 - Nov 2007 (3 months)

• Marketing. Without spending any money managed to bring in 80k unique hits to the first event over a period of three days. • Developing and implementing new ideas. • Created all content: FAQ, Blog updates, and Promotional Videos WouldYou72: "The most intensely broadcasted game-show on the internet. One person, some cameras, 72 hours. If they can withstand a grueling, no sleep, 72 hour session of some predetermined activity they will win the prize of their choice courtesy of us. For all 72 hours they are live, by webcam, for all to see. Contests, betting, games, and random entertainment are shown throughout."

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Side project

iPhoneHQ

Jun 2007 - Aug 2007 (3 months)

iPhoneHQ is a homepage built specifically for iPhones. As Project Leader I was the source of most of the creative ideas. I organized programmers, designers, and marketing specialists to get the job done.

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Journalist/Forum's Admin

PSPeMag

Mar 2005 - Jun 2006 (1 year 4 months)

Required to research and then write multiple articles every week. As an internet magazine deadlines were crucial and were never missed so punctuality was extremely important. Also being a small organization small jobs would randomly pop up and it was one of my responsibilities to handle them. The forum was home to 1,500+ members. As forum's administrator my job was to keep the forums in order and updated.

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