Matt Leta — Founder

For over 20 years, my focus has been on one thing: delivering real-world digital transformations. I started with changing how art is experienced and sold online, launching my first startup at 19, and then helping over 200+ businesses with digital systems, including building solutions for giants like Apple, Google, JLL. This all revealed a fundamental flaw in how digital transformation is approached. Consultants offer slide decks, and digital agencies often lack of depth, care or A Player talent. Both are too slow, too expensive, and fail most of the time. That is why I founded Future Works. We are the AI-native strike team built to solve this problem. Powered by proprietary AI systems and senior-only expert teams, we deliver critical digital and AI solutions 2x faster than the industry standard (and ever-faster). We replace vague promises with working software, building your modern digital core to lower costs, increase growth, and reduce AI risk. Our approach is about delivering measurable impact in weeks, not quarters, with clear checkpoints and verifiable ROI. Beyond this, I founded the non-profit community Future Horizon, which brings together global leaders to solve tomorrow's most complex challenges - and together work to envision, build and celebrate a symbiotic future. This work continually reinforces my belief in the power of focused, AI-symbiotic, high-velocity teams to accelerate meaningful change we want to see in the world. I keep researching accelerated transformation and share some of my findings in a newsletter and in two books (so far!), both of which became #1 Bestseller on Amazon. On a personal note, I’m married to the love of my life—who is also a founder and CEO—and we split our time between two coasts of the US. Nice to meet you.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in digital transformation and sustainability-focused initiatives.

Location: Berkeley, California, United States

Experience: 18 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Digital Transformation
Business Transformation
Business Strategy
Sustainability

Career Highlights

Over 20 years of digital transformation experience.
Founded AI-native professional services firm.
Two #1 bestselling books on digital transformation.

Work Experience

Future Works

Chief Executive Officer, Founder (3 yrs 1 mo)

Future Quest

Core Launch Team Lead, Founder (1 yr 6 mos)

HOO KOO E KOO

Founding Partner (2 yrs 9 mos)

Founder, CEO (4 yrs 6 mos)

Slash - The first do app

Co-Founder, Investor (8 mos)

Future Horizon

Chief Instigator, Founder (6 yrs 1 mo)

TABLE.co

Director Board Of Directors, Founder (Exit) (3 yrs 6 mos)

Co-founder, CPO (7 mos)

Charlie/Delta

Director of UX and Innovation (5 mos)

Dropr

Founder, CEO (Exit) (5 yrs 5 mos)

BeastLab

Founder (1 yr 6 mos)

Arekibo Digital

Interaction Designer (2 mos)

The Bootl

Digital Media and Algorithmic Artist (2 yrs 7 mos)

Interactive Ocean / FirstBorn

Web Designer, Developer (9 mos)

Education

Leading in the Digital Era at Harvard Business School

Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant / University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Matt Leta

Founder

Berkeley, California, United States18 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of digital transformation experience.
Founded AI-native professional services firm.
Two #1 bestselling books on digital transformation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in digital transformation and sustainability-focused initiatives.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital TransformationBusiness TransformationBusiness StrategySustainability

Other Skills

AI SolutionsService-as-SoftwareDigital StrategyTechnology IntegrationFundingProject ManagementUser Interface DesignWeb DesignGraphic DesignInDesignAnimationPhotoshopIllustrationDigital IllustrationLogo Design

About

Experience

18 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Future works

Chief Executive Officer, Founder

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · New York, United States

Future Works was born in an experiment where I made an AI my business partner for a month (March 2023). It ended up being the highest grossing #HustleGPT challenge project and it gave birth to something brand new: an AI-native professional services firm. I have led it on a side of HOO KOO E KOO for a year but eventually the innovator's dilemma was solved and we decided that this is the future. Future Works was officially born and became full time focus in April 2024 and today we are one of the first true Service-as-Software firms that delivers unmatched ROI with every relationship.

Business TransformationDigital TransformationAI SolutionsService-as-Software

Future quest

Core Launch Team Lead, Founder

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

I co-founded Future Quest to help remove 1Gt of CO2 from the atmosphere through funding bio-economy projects globally (highly operationalized afforestation, solar, blue carbon mainly). We raised 7 figures through the sale of NFTs and private investment and created a fund that funded and incubated 17 projects creating a reasonable ripple effect. Impact report available at future.quest.

Hoo koo e koo

2 roles

Founding Partner

Jun 2020 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Remote

A period during which I was mostly focused on our venture and community projects: Maloka, Slash, Future Horizon, Future Quest. Leading and overseeing FW/HKEK and its growth as a founder without day-to-day responsibilities.

Founder, CEO

Dec 2015 – Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Remote

Started and led the company through its first years. HOO KOO E KOO was born as a remote work experiment and for the first 3 years I traveled full time while building it part time. Then it became a full time focus in 2018 which started our exponential growth (average 2.2x per year during first 7 years).

Slash - the first do app

Co-Founder, Investor

May 2020 – Jan 2021 · 8 mos

Slash is a productivity app, 2x Product Hunt of the day. We brought the company to a profitable, self-sustainable mini-business, however ultimately focused on bigger projects. Thousands of people use it daily. We will look to open source this project if time allows.

Future horizon

Chief Instigator, Founder

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Global · Remote

Future Horizon is a non-profit facilitating an event series and a community where innovators, founders, investors, artists and thinkers gather to Envision, Build and Celebrate a symbiotic future.

Table.co

2 roles

Director Board Of Directors, Founder (Exit)

Apr 2015 – Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Co-founder, CPO

Mar 2015 – Oct 2015 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Charlie/delta

Director of UX and Innovation

Feb 2013 – Jul 2013 · 5 mos · London, United Kingdom

I led the definition and design of several digital properties and mobile apps for London-based companies spanning from commercial music distribution to finance.

Dropr

Founder, CEO (Exit)

May 2010 – Oct 2015 · 5 yrs 5 mos · London, United Kingdom

My first startup. We grew Dropr to host over 250,000 artists and several million pieces of digital art. Over 10 million monthly page views. One of the biggest creative platforms online at the time, before we moved on to work on its spin-off, TABLE.co. As a founder I wore many hats from concept, strategy, team management, marketing, UX, IA, design, brand, front-end development, speaking at conferences.
We organized art exhibitions and events and facilitated hundreds of thousands of collaborative relationships. The platform was retired in 2020 following a takeover in 2015.

Beastlab

Founder

Nov 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

I directed product for several large online services, such as an international art marketplace, a designer social networking/blogging platform, and a furniture web-store with 60,000+ SKUs.

Arekibo digital

Interaction Designer

Jun 2008 – Aug 2008 · 2 mos · Dublin, Ireland

I designed several websites, including Ireland.com and Today FM (one of the biggest radio stations in Ireland) and developed interactive flash animations for clients such as Eircom (the biggest phone company).

The bootl

Digital Media and Algorithmic Artist

Mar 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Interactive ocean / firstborn

Web Designer, Developer

Jun 2007 – Mar 2008 · 9 mos · Dublin, Ireland

I designed over 15 websites, for clients including Opel Ireland, David Lloyd, Tiger Beer and Irish Government. I also developed several micro-sites, flash banners, animations and took a part in planning TV, radio and street campaigns.