How to Create a Bingeable Hybrid Podcast with Matt Hooper of the Live! From Tomorrow Podcast

I think what’s most unique about our podcast is the combination of a musical comedy with an interview show.

As part of my series of interviews about “5 things you need to know to create a bingeable podcast”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Matt Hooper.

Matt Hooper is the creator of Live! From Tomorrow, a musical comedy podcast about tech and innovation, and the host of the IBM Blockchain Pulse podcast. Prior to this, he was the first Vice President of Open Innovation at the Barclays Investment Bank where he helped launch Rise New York, the model for Barclays’ global innovation programs. He was also the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at WeWork Labs, and continues to work with and occasionally invest in startups as a mentor for the NUMA accelerator and at Yale University’s Tsai CITY.

Can you tell us a bit of your “personal backstory? What is your background and what eventually brought you to this particular career path?

My pleasure. While I’ve spent the last three years building a little media startup, I professionally came of age in the NYC tech startup ecosystem. Started a business just out of college in 2010, worked for a few other startups…