Welcome back, listeners. Today we are dropping another episode in our series titled The Notifications North Star, sponsored by our good friends Courier.

Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect.

In our series, we'll be talking to customers, developers, and stakeholders within the

notification space to learn about their notification strategy, how important it is, and how

Courier is helping to solve this problem for product builders and developers alike.

Well, today I have Patrick Malatac on the Code Story podcast. He's a partner at Matrix Partners, early stage investments,

spent seven years at Twilio in leading product and four years at Microsoft over Microsoft Project.

Patrick, thank you for being on the show today.

Super excited to be here now.

Before we jump into Currier and your experiences with Courier, investment in Currier, tell me a little bit more about you.

I'm a investor here at Matrix, been at Matrix now for about three and a half years, been primarily doing developer infrastructure investing.

So, you know, I spent seven years at Twilio, was running product there and GM of the

messaging business and ultimately just really, really spent a lot of time thinking about how to bring

developer products to market, what makes a good developer products, and what are the right ways to

get that in the hands of customers. And so after I left Twilio, after an awesome run, you know, joining, you know, a company where we were all on a single open floor plan and downtown Soma all the way through going public and, you know, we had offices all around the world.

I got to have that experience.

And, you know, really for me, this was about helping founders that are trying to do that exact same thing.

I was fortunate enough to be sort of in a front row seat for that journey at Twilio and really

enjoy helping others do it.

And so been investing primarily in developer infrastructure, communications, sort of in

that space overall and stuff that has, you know, use of based business models is an area

that I've focused on pretty explicitly in terms of how you price and bring these products to market. Yeah, that's what I've been doing

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