# Matt Van Horn Matt Van Horn is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of **June** (the June Intelligent Oven, a smart countertop appliance, since acquired by Weber). He was on the founding team of **Zimride**, the company that became **Lyft** — his college friend and Zimride co-founder Logan Green is still Lyft's CEO, and Van Horn remains a close advisor. He grew up in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, and studied entrepreneurship and marketing at the University of Arizona (McGuire Entrepreneurship Program). ## Career - **Zimride / Lyft** — founding team; the carpooling startup, inspired by a 2004 trip to Zimbabwe, that later became Lyft and went public - **Digg** — ran business development; launched the publisher Digg button program - **Path** — VP of Business; ran business operations and started the Path platform - **June** — co-founded with Nikhil Bhogal (ex-Apple iOS/camera engineer, also from Path); built the June smart oven, later acquired by Weber Between Zimride and June he spent ~6 years learning from mentors including Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson, Dave Morin, Dustin Mierau, and Shawn Fanning. ## Now: open-source AI agent tooling Van Horn is currently building in open source with a focus on [[AI Agents|AI agents]] and CLI tooling. His GitHub (@mvanhorn) hosts several popular projects: - **last30days** (~27k★) — an [[AI Agent Skills|AI agent skill]] that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket, and the web - **Printing Press** (~4.2k★) — generates ship-ready CLIs for any API via a research → build → polish → publish loop, plus a curated **Printing Press Library** of generated CLIs - **agentcookie** — browser session syncing for agent runtimes He's also a prolific contributor across major open-source repos (CPython, Go, OpenCV, Zed, LangChain, Anthropic tooling). ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Matt Van Horn]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Matt Van Horn]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[AI Agents]] - [[AI Agent Skills]] - [[How Coding Agents Work]] ## References - GitHub: https://github.com/mvanhorn - X: https://x.com/mvanhorn - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattvanhorn - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Van_Horn