Mat Balez
Mat Balez is a Vancouver-based product builder.
We can make everything better.
I’m a product builder / product manager / product thinker / product enthusiast.
I work at Spiral, helping to make bitcoin a better kind of money for the whole world. Bitcoin is “more than an investment” as the team’s mission says.
Bitcoin represents an opportunity to reconsider what money is and how it should serve society. As a product person in the bitcoin open source ecosystem, I try to do what I can do help make bitcoin easy, ubiquitous and useful every day.
In a previous life, I co-founded Cityblock Health, a radically different type of healthcare provider for underserved communities. I was the company’s Chief Product Officer until early 2019.
I helped launch one of the first, and most highly-regarded, online coding bootcamps at Flatiron School in NYC.
And prior to that I was a PM at Google for many years, helping build Google Maps on mobile and bring Google Glass to market.
I now live in Vancouver, British Columbia with my wife and 4 kids.