BIOGRAPHY:

Matthew Ball is the CEO of Epyllion, which provides investment and strategic advisory services, produces television, films, and video games, and co-operates/owns the Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF (NYSE: $METV), which was the single largest sector ETF launch of 2021, among various other operating subsidiaries.

Ball is also a Venture Partner at Makers Fund, Senior Advisor to KKR, and sits on the board of numerous start-ups. His first book, “The Metaverse”, was published in July 2022 and became an instant international best-seller (US, UK, Canada, China), won several book of the year awards (The Guardian, FT China, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, FT China, Politico, The Economist’s Global Business Review) and received endorsements from Tim Sweeney (Founder/CEO of Epic Games), Reed Hastings (Founder/CEO of Netflix), Mark Zuckerberg (Founder/CEO of Facebook/Meta), Phil Spencer (CEO of Microsoft Gaming), Kenichiro Yoshida (CEO of Sony), and John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity). Ball is also an “Occasional Contributor” to The Economist, holds bylines at Bloomberg, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and wrote the August 8, 2022 cover story for Time Magazine.

Ball was previously a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, Head of Strategy for Amazon Studios, and an executive at The Chernin Group’s Otter Media and at Accenture. In the 2000s, he was a full-time wildfire fighter in Canada.

CONTACT:

Start-Ups/General Inquiries: “mb at epyllion dot co”
Press Requests: Please contact E.D. at “press at matthewball dot vc”
Event/Speaking Inquiries: Please contact Charlotte Perman, UTA Speakers, at charlotte.perman@unitedtalent.com and 212-647-6307

COVERAGE:

“Matthew Ball returns with another awesome essay on future platforms and the battle over closed ecosystems!” - Tim Sweeney, CEO and Co-Founder, Epic Games

“Matthew is one of the most thoughtful writers about the future of computing.” - Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder, Meta

“Even Zuck[erberg] knows how smart Matthew Ball is” - Daniel Loeb, CEO and Founder, Third Point

"Thoughtful, engaging, and relevant.” - Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming

“At Coinbase, our thinking about the Metaverse has been heavily influenced by venture capitalist and writer Matthew Ball” - Brian Armstrong, CEO and Co-Founder, Coinbase

"[After Matt published 'Disney-as-a-Service'], Kevin Mayer called and said 'Hey, Bob Iger and I would like to have lunch with you'...And Iger, I’m going to paraphrase here, says 'You know, you’re an idiot.' And I’m like, 'Why is that, Bob?' And he goes, “You give away for free what we pay tens of millions of dollars a year from management consultants for.” - Jason Hirschhorn, as reported by Peter Kafka at Recode

“There are plenty of smart media moguls. But the smartest of them ask Matt what he thinks they should do next.” - Gady Epstein, Media Editor, The Economist

“[Matthew Ball] is probably the most insightful Netflix analyst out there... I never learn so much about the media business than when I’m reading [him]" - Felix Salmon, Chief Financial Correspondent, Axios

“Matthew Ball is an essential read. His tweetstorms are a must follow and his dispatches on the state of streaming are bookmarked and deeply scrolled. He's clear eyed about the industry's faults and its potential, and few present such original thinking about media and technology. Every time I think I’ve got a grip on the business, Matthew will suggest a new thought, a curlicue of insight that makes me bang my fist on the table and wonder, Why didn’t I think of that?!” - Ed Lee, Media Reporter, New York Times

“This is one of the best business articles I’ve ever read.” - Mark Rein, Co-Founder, Epic Games

“I learn more from reading [Matt’s] deep and thoughtful analyses than I do from reading anything else. [Matt is] a gift to those of us in the industry who are trying to figure things out. [He is] my great translator and prognosticator and you make it all simple and palatable to understand.” - Quentin Schaffer, EVP Comms, HBO

"We recommend Matthew Ball's take on [Netflix’s future]” - Financial Times, Alphaville

"Matthew Ball is the smartest media analyst I read. And I read a lot of media analysis." - Derek Thompson, Economics, Technology, & Media Reporter, The Atlantic

"We recommend Matthew Ball’s excellent long-read on [Disney’s future with ‘Star Wars’] - Financial Times, Alphaville

"[Matthew Ball] is considered one of the most authoritative voices on big media business" - Sara Fischer, Media Reporter, Axios