Matthew Ball is a national and international best-selling author, TV/film/game producer, former tech executive, and one of the world’s leading thinkers on gaming, the Metaverse, spatial computing, XR, VR, AR, web3/crypto, and AI. His 2022 book THE METAVERSE was an national bestseller in the United States, Canada, UK, and China, and appeared on numerous Best Book lists for 2022, as well, including Hudson Booksellers, Amazon, The Guardian, Financial Times China, The Economist China, ByteDance's Toutiao, and Fast Company.

His works have been publicly praised by the likes of Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings, Epic Games co-founder and CEO Tim Sweeney, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, Unity CEO John Riccitiello, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and the official state news agency of the Chinese Communist Party. Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg called him "one of the most thoughtful writers about the future of computing," and Coinbase co-founder and CEO said "our thinking about the Metaverse has been heavily influenced by [this] venture capitalist and writer."

In addition to his own company, Epyllion, Ball is a Venture Partner at Makers Fund, Senior Advisor to KKR, and a co-founder of the Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF on the NYSE, which was the largest sector ETF launch of 2021, and is an “Occasional Contributor” to The Economist. Ball holds bylines at The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Bloomberg, and wrote TIME’s July/August 2022 double issue cover story.

From 2016–2018, Ball served as the global Head of Strategy for Amazon Studios, and prior to that was a Director at The Chernin Group’s Otter Media, a digital media investment company founded by long-time Newscorp COO and 20th Century Fox CEO Peter Chernin, and an Executive at Accenture Strategy.

Ball has spoken around the world for many of the largest companies in history, top regulatory bodies and governments, and royals.