March 13, 2025
        
        Matt Farrell - COO at Niobium Microsystems: Succeeding in the Earliest Stages, Evaluating Potential Employees, and Creating Work/Life Alignment
    
    
    
        
    Matt Farrell is the COO at Niobium Microsystems, a trusted hardware design company developing high-performance microelectronic components to enable the secure collection, processing, and distribution of critical data.
Matt is a multi-time founder and early-stage executive. Before the startup world, Matt was a coach for the University of Dayton Men’s basketball team and later the Assistant Athletic Director at the University of Dayton.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How to create work/life alignment
 - How sports prepare you for startups
 - How to evaluate potential employees
 - What to expect in the earliest stages of a company
 - Why you need to have a bias for action in a startup
 
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