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“qualified Strategic AEs for Exa”: 1

Sales record

Revenue from zero. Twice.

Two companies founded, both acquired. At Sparkcentral: sourced the early revenue and closed the largest enterprise deals on the books (Delta, Netflix, a $3M T-Mobile agreement) through security reviews, procurement, and multi-stakeholder executive committees. At Noteninja: personally sold the entire book of business, then sold the business itself to SalesLoft. At both companies I owned the product and technical specs, and carried that into product management at SalesLoft.

2×
Founder, both companies acquired (SalesLoft, Hootsuite)
$43M+
Raised from Founders Fund, Social Capital, Sigma West, Split Rock
$3M
Largest deal: T-Mobile, C-level sponsorship
1
U.S. patent: conversation intelligence (US 20200252442A1)
Delta Air Linescold call · closed
Netflixcold call · closed
T-Mobileclosed · $3M
Nordstromcold call · closed
Hiltonclosed
Emiratescold call · closed
Discovercold call · closed
Swiss Airlinesclosed
Citrixcold call · closed
Slackclosed
Sparkcentral
Co-founder · real-time social customer service · raised $43M+ · landed Delta, Netflix, T-Mobile, Nordstrom, Hilton · led the company through SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 certifications · acquired by Hootsuite
Noteninja
Co-founder & CEO · conversation intelligence for sales teams · sourced and closed all early revenue · acquired by SalesLoft in under two years
SalesLoft
Product Manager, Conversation Intelligence. Ran product for the platform his startup became (2,000+ customers incl. Dell, MuleSoft, Alteryx) while partnering with enterprise AEs as the technical expert in competitive, executive-level evaluations
Technical proof

Ships real software. With paying customers.

Not a professional developer: an operator who builds production systems with AI agents. Which happens to be exactly the buyer Exa sells to.

WhelpDesk mascot, a cream puppy illustration

WhelpDesk

The operating system for responsible dog breeders: pedigrees, litters, whelping sessions, heat-cycle and progesterone tracking, health records, and buyer communication in one place. Live on the iOS App Store and the web, with paying annual subscribers.

Live in the App Store $79.99/yr subscriptions v3.0.0 React Native · Expo Next.js web app Supabase · Stripe 100% of the code by Matt Built with AI agents
Download on the App Store Product page ↗

WhelpDesk codebase: lines live in production

TypeScript · iOS app
18.6K
TypeScript · web app
10.9K
SQL · database
3.9K
Mobile
Expo 54React Native 0.81expo-routerTanStack QueryZustandZodNativeWindexpo-iapSentryPostHog
Web
Next.js 16StripeSupabase SSRRechartsPostHog
Backend
SupabasePostgres + RLS15 CLI migrationsper-PR branch DBs
Commerce
Shopify (littlewolves.com)
622
Commits shipped in 2026 (through August)
8
Active repos: apps, sites, and tools in production
2
Live products with real customers: WhelpDesk & littlewolves.com
~3 wks
First commit to App Store release for the current app
iOS stack
Expo 54 · React Native 0.81 · React 19 · expo-iap subscriptions · Supabase (Postgres, Auth, Storage, RLS) · migrations via Supabase CLI with per-PR branch databases
Web stack
Next.js 16 (App Router) · Stripe billing · Supabase · auto-deploy on Vercel, live at whelpdesk.com
littlewolves.com
The commerce side: a Shopify storefront for the breeder brand (potty trays, pads, a best-practices course) and WhelpDesk's marketing and web-signup funnel
The build
100% of the code was written and shipped by Matt Finneran, with AI agents as the engineering team. The entire current app went from first commit to App Store release in about three weeks
PM discipline
Runs his products the way he ran product at SalesLoft: specs, roadmaps, pricing & packaging, release cycles, App Store review, analytics instrumentation, the full technical PM toolkit, applied solo
Full stack, solo
App Store releases, Stripe billing, Postgres migrations, auth, analytics: one operator, AI agents as the team
This site
Researched with live Exa API searches, designed, deployed, and DNS'd in an afternoon. See the work sample
Beyond the desk

Cold outreach as a way of life.

Podcast
Top 2% new show on Spotify (2025) · 17K YouTube subscribers in year one · every guest booked through cold outreach
Previously
Submarine pilot & 2nd mate on Richard Branson's S/Y Necker Belle, a job landed by cold-calling the yacht in person: rang the doorbell and asked if they were hiring · Red Bull brand manager · PADI scuba instructor
Education
UNC Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School (Entrepreneurship)

The work sample: an East Coast territory plan.

25 strategic accounts researched with Exa's own Search API: buying committees, dated AI signals with sources, and a why-Exa wedge for every account.

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