# Matt Drozdzynski

> Matt Drozdzynski, who now uses Matt Pelc publicly, is the co-founder and CEO of Plane, formerly Pilot. His public writing and talks document hands-on experience building distributed teams, simplifying product processes and developing payroll and compliance software for global teams.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Plane
- **Organizations:** Plane (formerly Pilot), Ink
- **Education:** Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Plane, a Y Combinator Winter 2017 company., Reported taking a previously unshippable product live in three months after simplifying its development process., Published practical essays on distributed-team management, product development and writing.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Plane’s public author biography dates his experience building and running distributed teams to 2006.
- **2011** — Listed speaker on machine learning and sentiment classification in Ruby at EuRuKo; says he drafted his essay Just write by hand that summer.
- **2013** — His Face time essay recounts a two-day co-founder meeting to plan Ink’s product and hiring roadmaps for 2013.
- **2016** — Public talks included productivity and Slack bots; published writing on product-team processes.
- **2017** — Pilot participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2017 batch.
- **2020** — Appeared on The Lean Hire and Building Remotely podcasts and a remote-worker compliance webinar.
- **2023** — Pilot rebranded to Plane; discussed global payroll and product strategy in a June interview.
- **2025** — Participated in The Real Cost of Payroll panel alongside Hebba Youssef and Rachel Ackerman.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Plane, a Y Combinator Winter 2017 company.
- Reported taking a previously unshippable product live in three months after simplifying its development process.
- Published practical essays on distributed-team management, product development and writing.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Plane published a recap of The Real Cost of Payroll panel featuring Matt, Hebba Youssef and Rachel Ackerman.
- **2026-06** — Plane’s website lists updated editions of Matt’s essays on product teams, management and asynchronous standups; these are updates to earlier writing, not newly dated career events.

## Links

- Website: https://matt.tm/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matid
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/matid/
- GitHub: https://github.com/matid

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Last updated: 2026-10-14