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Brett Hellman

Matter - Take control of your career. Peer feedback for professionals

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Matter is for professionals who want to become the best version of themselves. Discover your strengths and reach your aspirations.

🙌 Thanks for taking the time to learn about Matter.

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Julia Lipton
Simple and beautifully designed tool for actionable feedback 😀. It's the best performance review tool I've ever used. It only takes a handful of clicks to set up and start giving and receiving feedback. Things I like about: ✨ You don't have to wait for a boss or process to get feedback and start improving ✨ You can give and get feedback in minutes (instead of staring at performance evals for hours) ✨ Matter provides suggestions of types of feedback so it's a painless (even delightful!) process
Brett Hellman
Maker
@julia_lipton That's so great to hear! The entire Matter team is thrilled to have you join us during our beta. I'm looking forward to hearing more of your feedback on how the team can continue to make Matter work even better for you! ❤️
Marc Reisen
Maker
@julia_lipton 😻Wow! Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this with the team!
Kerem Kazan
Maker
@julia_lipton thanks so much for your kind words! Definitely looking forward to hearing more from you
Kenneth Kel
Hello everyone, I am a research scientist at UC Berkeley’s psychology department and I happen to be in a team with two bosses who dislike one another. I was at Wharton before Berkeley and something called a “360 feedback” was the tool we used to alleviate tension between team members. In essence, every person grills every other person in the team until everyone is finished. 
After several weeks of asking my superiors to do a “360”, I realized that while face-to-face hostility is customary amongst business folk, academics are on the softer end of the spectrum and tend to avoid real life confrontation. I guess this explains why we publish papers as opposed to hosting debates on live TV 😂 Googling for a solution I came across the Matter app and to my astonishment I received written feedback from my superiors the night I submitted mine. This was so unexpected that I decided to look it up and it turns out that while written feedback is as effective as spoken, written is much easier to give (https://doi.org/10.1089/10949310... and https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/m...). We might need many more exchanges on Matter to resolve all our problems but our team dynamics have become much healthier. This platform is a useful tool and I wish the best of luck to the Matter team! Cheers, Kenneth
Brett Hellman
Maker
@kenneth_kel this is amazing! We are so happy you found Matter and are having a great experience using Matter to receive feedback and grow. We're lucky to have you as one of our early users. Thank you!
Danielle Roubinov
@kenneth_kel Hi Kenneth! As a fellow psychologist in academia, I applaud (and very much agree with!) this comment. In graduate school, there was no formal mechanism or structure for receiving feedback and I really wish there was. Other academic settings are similarly noncommittal and it does such a disservice to professionals in this field. Giving/receiving regular feedback paves the way for individual and team growth. Would love to see this kind of thing adopted more broadly in our field!
Matter is an incredible product! I've had the pleasure of chatting with @bretthellman about Matter during the closed beta and it has helped me at a pivotal point in my career to get really valuable feedback. Everyone needs ways to be built up and grow—as professionals and human beings.
Brett Hellman
Maker
@jdsimcoe love hearing this story! I'm glad you like it. I hope you'll continue to use Matter as your career progresses ❤️
Andrew Meyers

I sent a Matter link to a few of my colleagues, and they quickly responded with feedback. They then proceeded to create their own accounts and start soliciting feedback! Works great.

Pros:

Cool design, colorful, thoughtful, enjoyable to use

Cons:

Hard to dismiss suggested contacts, would be nice to customize feedback request

Brett Hellman
Maker
@andrewmeyers you just made our day! 🎉 -- how can we make it easier to dismiss suggested contacts?
Meng To

Getting constructive feedback on your work is hard within any team environment. Matter solves that by giving you the right tools to get your team on board and share feedback that will help them further their career. I always encourage my team to focus on their skills and growth, so Matter is a unique and effortless way to provide the necessary guidance to achieve that.

Pros:

Actionable feedback, easy-to-use, great for teams

Cons:

Mobile app?

Marc Reisen
Maker
@mengto Thank you so much for checking out Matter and supporting constructive feedback! For small teams like ours, I could easily see how giving and receiving feedback could be a challenge. Especially when you work so closely with one another. It's wonderful that your team has someone like you focused on developing their skills as well as growth. You've taught not only your team, but also thousands of designers and creatives how to code, and use new tools which help them develop their skills! Is there any skill in particular you're focused on this year, or next year?
Brett Hellman
Maker
@mengto thank you again for taking the time to experience Matter and for leaving a review. I hope we'll get to hear more from you! I wanted to follow-up on your Mobile app question. As you've likely discovered, we do not currently have a native mobile experience. We do have a mobile responsive experience. The reason why is since Matter allows individuals to ask their trusted peers for feedback, we felt that including the requirement to download a native app to provide feedback was too much of a burden. Now that Matter as a company is at the stage where we have a healthy and growing number of active users, we are starting to explore the idea of providing users with a native mobile experience to make it even easier for active users to give feedback, view their feedback, track their progress and more.
Lenny Rachitsky
Feedback is rocket fuel for professional growth. Matter is the best tool I’ve found to get that feedback.
Brett Hellman
Maker
@lenny_rachitsky 🌱🚀 yea! It's all about having that growth mindset. Your quote is still one of my favorite: "As knowledge workers we are paid to use our brains. We spend too little time improving how our brains work."
Marc Reisen
Maker
@lenny_rachitsky Thank you for all of your support @lenny_rachitsky !
Nikunj Kothari
Congrats @bretthellman and team for launching Matter. Couple of questions for you: 1) What makes Matter different than some of its competitors? 2) What are some of the features that the team is working on that we can expect in the next few weeks?
Brett Hellman
Maker
@nikunj - let's get into it! 🥄 What makes Matter different than some of its competitors? * Matter puts you in the driver’s seat of getting quality feedback. With Matter, feedback is no longer a process you passively wait for, but one in which you are actively in control. You select the professional skills you care about and the peers you trust to provide you with feedback. Hence, No Boss Required.™️ 👆 That's a lot of quality marketing speak... Bluntly, you are Matter's customer, not your boss or VP of HR. Matter gets the feedback you care about, from the people you care about, tracks the goals you care about... Matter is not what your company or boss tell you that you should care about. You can take Matter with you as you change companies, keeping your learnings and tracking your career progress - no different than how you take your LinkedIn profile from company to company. Why lose all those amazing learnings? * We'd like to think Matter's execution is a major step above our competitors. But let us be honest, everyone ceo says that! But in our case, since we heard it from our users, maybe it's true! Given we're the first and only bottoms up feedback app for professionals who want to grow their skills - we don't have a direct comparison. Our competitor is people deciding to do nothing.
Emmanuel Genene
I love to use Matter to collect feedback and grow as a software engineer :)
Brett Hellman
Maker
@emmanuel_genene yea! we love seeing engineers using Matter to grow their skills.
Emmanuel Genene
@bretthellman thanks Brett for this awesome product :)
Brett Hellman
Maker
Theodore Strauss
I’ve used this product throughout the beta and I can say it’s amazing. I think it can truly benefit teams across orgs. Could see this changing the game in terms of giving feedback to managers in the enterprise space. Nice job Brett and Marc!
Brett Hellman
Maker
@theodorestrauss amazing! So happy to see you loving Matter. Thanks for helping us spread the word. And another thank you for all your feedback during the beta period. ❤️ It's so nice to finally share Matter with the world 🌎 Thanks for all your help making it happen!
Eric Pan
None of us has perfect self awareness, but Matter gets us a lot closer! I was surprised by feedback about some strengths that came up which I thought were weaknesses 🤪 Areas to improve was nice to hear from friends who know me well as a complement to workplace feedback.
Brett Hellman
Maker
@epan Love hearing Matter helped discover potential blind spots. 👀 💪
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