The Journey of Beat Childhood Cancer Foundation with Kyle Matthews

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Check out this awesome interview as we go deep into how Kyle and his team are doing amazing things in the efforts to beat childhood cancer. 

Kyle Matthews is a Tampa based Seattle transplant who's founded or co-founded many organizations, both for-profit and nonprofit. He now serves as the Executive Director of Beat Childhood Cancer, where they drive clinical research into cures for childhood cancer, making a difference in kids’ survival today. He entered the childhood cancer world in 2010 when his wife Robyn and he lost their first son, Ezra, to cancer.

Since 2010, Beat Childhood Cancer has directed over $7 million to promising childhood cancer research through the Beat Childhood Cancer Research Consortium, a group he helped to found and solely fund. This research is happening in 45+ hospitals and research institutions across the world. They are showing extremely motivating results. Learn more of what they are helping to build by reading the Boston Globe's 5 part series at globe.com/will.

Previously, Kyle spent over a decade in the technology entrepreneurship space, and is an experienced CTO and technology consultant. He co-founded Laicos, a creative design agency in Tampa focusing on modern web and mobile applications and process optimization. Additionally, through Tampa / Denver based ModMy, LLC he built the largest online iPhone community (aside from Apple), with over 900,000 members and 1/2 million daily page views.