Builder. Optimist. Helpful Guy.

Eyy! I'm Matt Burns - I'm obsessed with building communities people obsess about.

Co-Founder of Digital Gravity (with my wife Nicole). Creator of ProveWorth. I've been obsessed with why people stick around in communities for over a decade. Now I build tools for the people who run them. Based in Austin, TX.

Matt Burns at the Nasdaq for monday.com IPO MNDY IPO
Matt and Nicole at Wizarding World of Harry Potter adventures!
Community event meetup hanging with Sam Ovens & Alex Hormozi

Tools for people who build communities.

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Digital Gravity

Co-Founders · Nicole & Matt Burns

Our consulting studio. Nicole and I help companies build communities worth sticking around for. ProveWorth and CardValue both live here.

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Antler

Community Building Expert (VC)

I advise early-stage founders at Antler on community strategy. Mostly I tell them to stop treating communities like marketing channels.

Case Study

Helped Frey Chu turn 6,000 YouTube subscribers into 1,089 Circle community members in 31 days. When Frey launched his premium community a month after this video, he generated $4,132 worth of monthly recurring revenue in under 10 minutes.

The journey to 1 billion ARR.

I joined monday.com as employee number one in the US when the whole company only had a couple dozen people. Nearly a decade later, we took the company public and had grown to nearly 4,000 people. I was fortunate enough to wear a few hats along the way.

4 teams
Built & ran from scratch
Hundreds
Hired & onboarded
150+
People managed

It started with a game.

When I wanted to get better at a competitive team-based game called Overwatch, I realized community was the answer, but there was none out there where people could share strategies, help one another, and team up.

So I built one. r/CompetitiveOverwatch grew to over 150,000 members before I passed it to the moderation team. After nearly a decade helping monday.com hit a billion dollars in annual revenue and building communities with thousands of real-life attendees, I kept coming back to the same question. Why is it so hard for passionate community builders to prove what they've built really helps people?

That question helped me answer my lifelong obsession. The best way to help communities grow is ProveWorth.com.