Matt Moog from Viewpoints Network
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Adrian: Today I'm talking with Matt Moog from Viewpoints Networks. Matt was the former CEO of Cool Savings and helped drive that company through a lot of its changes. Matt, tell us a little bit about your personal and business history before we talk about what you are doing at Viewpoints.
Matt: I was born in upstate New York and lived all over the East Coast. For the past 14 years, I have lived in Chicago. I went to college at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. After college, I started working for Microsoft.
After four years in business-development roles, which included working on both the launch of MSN and their Internet platform, I left Microsoft and joined a couple of entrepreneurs who had launched a company called CoolSavings.
I was at CoolSavings for 10 years and was the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing when we went public via a traditional IPO. Six months after we went public, I took over as the President and COO. Six months after that, I became the CEO and ran CoolSavings as a public company for five years … » more »

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