Matt Patterson co-founded and scaled Bellhop, a tech-enabled moving company, from a college concept into a national brand before becoming a full-time investor at Brickyard, giving him deep operator experience in execution-heavy consumer services that most VCs lack. He builds and participates in a concentrated, in-person founder community in Chattanooga rather than traditional coastal hubs, positioning him as a central operator-turned-investor in that specific geography. Matt Patterson co-founded and scaled Bellhop, a tech-enabled moving company, from a college concept into a national brand before becoming a full-time investor at Brickyard, giving him deep operator experience in execution-heavy consumer services that most VCs lack. He builds and participates in a concentrated, in-person founder community in Chattanooga rather than traditional coastal hubs, positioning him as a central operator-turned-investor in that specific geography.