Matt Schoch
- Co-Founder and CTO
- Narval
School Information
School: University of Cincinnati
College Major: Other
Years at College Works: 2011
Career Information
Working For: Narval
Title: Co-Founder and CTO
Industry: Software
Brief Description of Duties / Responsibilities:
Narval builds next-gen access management for web3 wallets & blockchain-based use-cases.
What Has Been Your Proudest Accomplishment Post-CWP?Built a large-scale iPhone app and published it in the app store, and won the UC Bearcat Launchpad competition for most promising student-run startup. I’ve since shut down the app, and joined a more-promising startup in the Brandery’s class of 2014.
College Works Career Impact
In one sentence, what has CW meant to you?
College Works Painting helped me learn that I have what it takes to start a company.
How did your CW experience impact your career? Immediately after graduation? Now?
College Works Painting helped me know that I wanted to be an entrepreneur. It gave me valuable experience in working hard, management, sales, and dealing with problems. Immediately after graduation, I joined a start-up because I didn’t want to work in a typical corporate job.
What was the greatest lesson you learned from your CW experience?
Perseverance. Things get hard, no matter how good you are you will have problems, but you can recover by just persevering and not giving up.
Advice
What advice do you have for potential CW participants? Current CW participants?
Be ready to work hard. You’ll work really hard, and a lot of it won’t be fun work, and you might not be as successful as you hope. If you work really hard knowing it’s only temporary, you’ll be satisfied with the end result.
What’s your best advice for someone interested in entering your career field?
Start building things as early as possible. Work on a big project, it’ll force you to learn a lot more than just doing little exercises like you’ll do in classes.