Eric Mathews

Coach to Unlock Growth for Founders & Executives | 3x Author | Forbes, Inc. & Entrepreneur Featured | Power 100 | Innovator of the Year | Investor (12 Exits)

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

@FuturaEvent Happy to serve! Looking forward to it.

[Futura Innovation Conference @FuturaEvent]

Meet the Futura Steering Committee 👇

Mathews — entrepreneur, investor, ecosystem builder — advising on long-term vision, ecosystem design, and global connectivity.

📍 Limerick | Oct 19–21 | https://t.co/hJMLBXXS3l
#futurainnovation #innovationleaders #techleaders

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

Proud to be part of @FuturaEvent — an innovation conference unlike anything Ireland has seen. 1,500+ leaders. 7 tracks. 10+ venues. 1 city. 19–21 October in Limerick.
Tickets and info: https://t.co/H4HqKsaYyG

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

My next Mathews Mindset is called Waiting for Superman.

It is about No Playbook Moments, the situations that arrive without warning, without a script, and without a clear path forward.

In those moments, you do not prepare for the moment. You prepare the person who will face it.

Subscribe before it drops:

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[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

Most people sense that something is off before they can articulate it.

They continue to add to their plans because completing them would mean confronting whether they were ever viable.

They haven't made a bad decision in years, but they also haven't made a difficult one.

The version of themselves they are trying to protect has not been accurate for about three years.

They wake up feeling fine, but by the time they drive to work, something has already shifted, often dismissed as just traffic.

These are signals.

In my Mathews Mindset newsletter, I explore what these signals truly signify. The newsletter delves into the gap between what individuals claim to want and how their lives are structured to achieve those desires.

I am not sharing productivity hacks or generic success advice. My insights come from twenty years of experience in building companies, coaching founders and business owners, and observing recurring lessons across diverse people and situations.

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#Leadership #Entrepreneurship #Mindset

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

“The ability to do hard things is perhaps the most useful ability you can foster in yourself or your children. And proof that you are someone who can do them is one of the most useful assets you can have on your life resume.”

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[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

Fear Has a Direction.

Courage is not available for purchase in advance in quantities large enough to cover the full journey.

You only need courage for the first step.

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[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

My next Mathews Mindset post elaborates on a diagnostic question my friend Scott Brown (@rsbrown) gave me twenty years ago. It is one of the simplest and most revealing questions I have ever been asked, and I think about it to this day.

Here is a taste: your body answers the burnout question twice a day, every day, before your brain has a chance to spin it. You just haven't been paying attention to the answer.

It drops Tuesday. Don't miss it. Subscribe to the Mathews Mindset newsletter here: https://t.co/w935mhkTy7

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

#SanFrancisco friends, I'm in town this Thursday and I want to see you.

We used to host happy hours like this pre-pandemic and it's time to bring that energy back. Hoping this kicks off more regular gatherings for our friends and community out here in SF.

Why am I coming? Why happy hour?

I'm the incoming board chair of Code Crew, a Memphis-born 501(c)(3) that has reached over 16,000 students with hands-on computer science, coding, and AI education and built real pathways into tech careers. The impact is going national, and we're in the middle of a $7.5 million capital campaign to make that happen.

Jillian Friot, Meka Egwuekwe (Code Crew's CEO and co-founder), and I are hosting a happy hour this Thursday, April 23rd from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at the San Francisco Wine Society. Wine and food are on us.

If you care about the future of tech talent and who gets access to it, come through. If you don't still come so we can hang out and catch up.

Donate what you can. Bring someone who should be in the room. Thank you!!!

RSVP: https://t.co/ZMuUtHsJtY

#Memphis #HH #HappyHour #SanFranciscoTech #impact

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

"Profit is the measure of how well we work together."
- David Packard

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

One of the strangest things about modern life:

We spend a lot of time inside the minds of far-off strangers.

Their ideas shape our attention, beliefs, tastes, fears, and ambitions.

Choose your inputs like your life is being formed by them.

Because it is.

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
— Alan Turing

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

“The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and shortcomings of his followers.”
—Napoleon Hill

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

No one in leadership is too busy to think about the future.

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

Strong companies are built deliberately. They do not emerge by accident.

Start Co. is currently running the **Virtual Entrepreneurship Series 2026**, a six-part leadership and sales program designed to help founders build scalable organizations and repeatable revenue engines.

This is a multi-state program funded by Empower California and open to qualified entrepreneurs in:

Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

We kicked off on February 11, but it is not too late to join the remaining sessions.

Over the next sessions, founders will learn how to:

• Strengthen organizational structure and culture
• Establish governance and board discipline
• Validate and sharpen their “sell”
• Modernize their sales funnel
• Scale with financial clarity and operating discipline

The program is fully funded. There is no cost for qualified participants.

Registration and completion of the intake form are required to determine eligibility.

If you know founders in any of these states who are serious about building durable companies, send this to them.

Apply here: https://t.co/sGYCGPyLHu

[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

Two months of silence.

Two weeks of fire.

I took a step back from the Mathews Mindset newsletter at the end of last year. Sometimes the best thing a leader can do is pause, reflect, and come back sharper.

That's exactly what happened.

Starting this month, I've got a run of essays coming that I'm genuinely excited about on resilient transformation, the real edge in leadership, and what it takes to build something that lasts.

Subscribe now so you don't miss any of them:

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[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

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[Eric Mathews @ECMathews]

If you don’t give your life a direction, the world will give it a distraction.