Matt started his career as a book marketer in publishing (Avalon, Wiley, FSG). After a Columbia Business School MBA, he joined the Amazon books team, then held several roles in tech, including VP of Growth at seed-stage startup Inkshares, Head of Growth and Engagement at Trulia, and most recently Head of Product, Design, and Research at Patreon.
Meg began her career as Editor at Becker&mayer!, producing high-profile licensed and complex illustrated books for major publishers, before leading global digital initiatives for Adidas. As Chief of Strategy at Girl Friday Productions for nearly ten years, she steered the agency from book packager for traditional imprints to award-studded independent publishing services company.
Zack brings nearly twenty years in full-stack engineering, recently as Lead Software Architect at Cloud9, where he developed membership systems for the US’s most successful e-gaming franchise. He designed the Xbox interface of one of the world’s most profitable multiplayer games, World of Tanks, and is the author of The Last Human (Penguin Random House, 2020) and A Crowded Galaxy (Dark Horse, 2024).
Charlotte was a book jacket designer and Art Director at Faber & Faber, Inc and the paperback line at FSG for fourteen years and is the former Designer and Art Editor of The Paris Review magazine. In 2014, she cofounded Strick & Williams, an award-winning, women-led, Brooklyn-based brand design firm, which helped launch publishers such as Catapult and Spiegel & Grau, among others, as well as an award-winning rebrand of The Paris Review.
Girl Friday Productions (Book Production Partner) is an industry-leading editorial and design agency that has packaged books for major trade publishers since 2006.
We’ve watched from the inside as the publishing industry has become a winner-take-all blockbuster game. Only 1 percent of writers—the mega bestsellers—command publishers’ marketing budgets and retail shelf space, leaving the rest with no support and little chance at success.
Previously bestselling authors make up 85 percent of bestseller lists. The standard practice of acquiring books based on comparable strong-selling titles makes it nearly impossible for new voices to break out.
Over the last few years, tastemakers have reinvigorated the entire industry. With strong taste and direct connections with large communities, tastemakers have reached new groups of readers and illuminated overlooked self-published and backlisted authors, rocketing many to bestseller lists and the big screen.
By empowering tastemakers and their reading communities to participate in publishing, we’re creating a new pathway for authors to reach readers and bring the vision for their book to life.
Former CEO of HarperCollins Worldwide and Cofounder of Open Road Integrated Media
Head of Spotify for Artists, former Head of Creator Product at Patreon, Cofounder of Kit creator curation platform, and ex-Apple, Google, and YouTube
VP of Product at Descript, former CPO at Outside, CPO at Medium, VP of Product at Twitter, and VP at Say Media (content creator partnerships)
Founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company and thought leader on digital change in the publishing industry
Leading tastemaker and Director of Product at Unity Technologies, Cofounder of the Hugo-nominated Sword & Laser podcast and book club (top-rated on Goodreads)
Former Director of Product Design at Patreon, former Google and TIME, award-winning filmmaker
Bindery is backed by BAUKUNST, a collective of creative technologists advancing the art of building companies at the frontiers of technology and design, along with strategic angel investors from the book publishing and tech worlds.