About Us
The way we see it
Introducing User Cooperative
Founder
Matt is the founder of User Cooperative, and he's hell-bent on getting you equity for your internet clicks. His professional background is in corporate finance, and he’s worked on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, across the Pond in London, and way down south in Santiago. His experience analyzing fair-market transactions on Wall Street enabled him to identify the data connected to your clicks as "risk-capital," the basis of ownership in our market system. His experience in Silicon Valley enabled him to see that tech companies derive substantially all of their value from your clicks and those of your fellow consumers. Those experiences are a major part of his motivation to bring User Cooperative to life. He has a finance degree from Rutgers Business School and an MBA from Yale School of Management. He globetrots when he can, speaks bad Spanish, and tries to stay fit. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, and he now lives in Durango, Colorado.
Hello, I’m Matt Martensen. I’m the founder/organizer of User Cooperative, and I’m on a mission to get you the equity you deserve for your internet clicks. I have 15 years of entrepreneurial and small-and-midsize business experience in internet technology, M&A, and corporate finance, as a founder, co-founder, or other key manager, and I have experience working on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and abroad. I also have a passion for teaching. I’ve been an entrepreneurship instructor for Stanford University Pre-Collegiate Studies and a mentor at a startup incubator for a large public high school in South Texas, and, to help make ends meet at this stage in User Cooperative’s journey, I work part-time as a high school substitute teacher. I hold two business degrees: an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management and a B.S. in Finance from Rutgers Business School. I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and I now live in Durango, Colorado.
User Cooperative is a very proud graduate of Startup Colorado's Founder Coopetition.