Matthew Bellows is Founder and CEO of Yesware. Yesware serves more than 1 million salespeople at companies like Salesforce.com, Twilio, Yelp and Zendesk. At Yesware, Matthew strives to encourage authenticity, mindfulness and compassion in the professional context. Before starting Yesware, Matthew served as VP of Sales at several high technology companies, and founded a media business, which he sold in 2004.

Matthew has studied and practiced mindfulness disciplines since 1990. He is a meditation instructor in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. He earned his B.A in Buddhist and Western Psychology from Naropa University, and studied Tibetan and Sanskrit at Harvard. Fortunately, he realized academia was not for him, so he earned an M.B.A. magna cum laude from The Olin School for Business at Babson College.

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