Matt Ackerson is a self-taught artist and computer programmer who started three businesses as an undergraduate at Cornell before graduating in Spring 2009. One of thoese businesses was Scrimple.com - a Web site featuring printable coupons for Ithaca establishments.
His latest venture, PetoVera, is best described as a web design business, and is Ackerson's fourth and final company which he plans to run and grow for the rest of his life.
Matt Ackerson is a graduate of Cornell University.
I came to this school thinking I was going to be an artist. I didn't know what I wanted to do. I transferred here from Stony Brook. There I was just writing books and like doing paintings. I fell in love with business at Cornell. I didn't even know what entrepreneurship was before I came here. ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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