Hello and welcome to my first blog post in a long time, and officially my first post on the new MorganLinton.com. While it’s more than likely that my future posts will be long(ish), I’m going to try to keep this first post short and sweet since it’s really an intro to me and my blog.
If you’re here, maybe you know who I am, maybe you don’t, so let’s start there.
Hi, I’m Morgan and I’m the Cofounder and CTO of Bold Metrics. At Bold Metrics we’re using AI to help companies unlock the power of body data. What the heck does that mean?
It means we have some pretty nifty algorithms that use AI to generate tailor accurate body measurements - I oftentimes say, think of us as the “Intel Inside of Body Data.”
We work with a lot of brands you know and love powering their online fit and sizing experience. You can check out our website if you want to see who uses us and give us a try for yourself.
As a founder, pretty much every waking moment is spent on Bold Metrics. I used to think there would be this magical balance that could exist, but honestly, I’ve found I’m so passionate about what we are doing, and more than that, about the incredible team we’ve built, it’s what I end up putting just about every waking minute into.
One thing I have learned over the years is that I still have a lot to learn. I get offers to be on podcasts and speak at conferences and I turn them all down because honestly, this is my first startup, I’m still learning, and I think those opportunities are better left to people who have started multiple companies, sold companies, all the things I haven’t done yet.
What has accelerated my learning over the last year is bringing on a mentor, someone who has done some pretty impressive stuff, namely cofounding a company and growing their engineering team to over 200 people. I’ve learned a lot from him, but through this process I also find myself realizing how much more I still have to learn.
At the end of the day, what matters to me the most is my team, the people who work with us and dedicate so much of their time to the vision we are all building together. As a founder, it really isn’t about you, isn’t about your investors, isn’t even about your product, it’s about your team - without an amazing team, nothing else matters.
So what did I do before this crazy founder life? I was early at Sonos, starting pre-launch when we had less than forty people. That was an incredibly journey and it’s very likely I’ll share more about it on here as time goes on. I learned a lot about Product at Sonos - the way the company approached Product was, and still is, a lot like an art form, and the level of detail and quality they put into everything they do is the reason why Sonos has become the brand it is today.
Of course I’m not aloof to the fact that the UX for their new app isn’t great, don’t know what happened there but I’m sure they’ll fix it and make it absolutely stellar.
Sonos is the only job I've had since graduating college. I went to school at Carnegie Mellon, and did my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and my masters degree in Computer Engineering. In college I was always fascinated with writing super fast, performant code, that could run even faster if you knew the specifics of the processor it would be running on. We used to call this processor-level optimization but I think it might be a somewhat lost art these days.
Going even further back...I was born and raised in Berkeley, California and somehow ended up working for my first software company when I was thirteen years old, but I’ll save that story for another day. For now, I’ll end it there. Thanks for reading my first post, where this blog goes from here, who knows?