Matthew Blode

I built VenueSafe during COVID from idea to acquisition by me&u (formerly Mr Yum) in 6 months. Stayed two years, helped scale me&u to 15M+ users, and supported the US expansion in Austin, TX.

Then I co-founded Fingertip with Olly Hoffman and the founders of Catch and Menulog. We scaled to tens of thousands of small businesses globally before Fingertip was acquired by Linktree.

Now I’m on AI at Linktree, building agents for creators and their audiences.

On the side I build the Blode Stack: open-source tools including Blode UI, Blode Icons, the Glide typeface, and DiffHub, a local diff viewer for reviewing cmux and agent-written code.

My specialty is going zero to one.