Matt Higgins
CEO, RSE Ventures | Shark Tank Guest Shark | HBS Executive Fellow
Co-founder and CEO of private investment firm RSE Ventures, guest shark on ABC's Shark Tank, and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School where he co-teaches on scaling businesses. Author of 'Burn the Boats'. Educates founders and CEOs on leveraging AI to accelerate scaling, eliminate operational bottlenecks, and capture market share.
Areas of focus
Professional niches
Proof of Work
AI Due Diligence Framework for Growth-Stage Corporate Acquisitions
Developed an institutional investment audit standard assessing target companies' defensibility against generative disruption, proprietary data moat validity, and internal AI workflow integration maturity.
Rapid foundation model capability leaps can render specific vertical software moats obsolete quickly.
Context: Private equity due diligence protocols, proprietary dataset evaluation, tech stack vulnerability audits.
View missionThe Zero-Marginal-Cost Startup: Scaling Ventures with AI Leverage
Keynote curriculum demonstrating how venture-backed startups utilize small multi-disciplinary teams coupled with autonomous agent stacks to achieve $10M+ ARR milestones without linear headcount expansion.
Requires high managerial discipline to prevent tool sprawl and maintain clean data architecture.
Context: Venture scale economics, executive automation stacks, lean operational scaling.
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