About
Hi, I'm Max. I build digital products for a living. On a good day, they get traffic; on a great day, I understand why.
Work Experience
Why Now Ventures
Feb 2024 - Present
Founder
Supporting founders with access to the best talent in Europe
- • Investing up to €100k e.g. via convertables
- • Get in touch: max@whynow.vc
- • Started out of frustration with the video ad creation process
- • Over 10.000 ads generated for 500+ customers
- • Launching multiple products a year while managing a team of Sr. Engineers
- • #1 employee, working closely with CEO Mathis Büchi, prev. founded Taxfix and Smallpdf
- • Responsible for everything from ideation to building, go-to-market, growth, and monetization
Link Community (Harvard iLabs project)
Oct 2022 - Present
Co-Founder
Worldwide ecosystem trips to visit leading startups, VCs, and corporates
- • Members attended Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Berkely, Oxford, Cambridge...
- • Our community exists out of 50 / 50 Gender and Tech/Business Ratio from 50+ nations
- • Partnered with 80+ companies and VCs like Lightspeed, Accel, Seedcamp, Tesla, Enpal...
- • Scaled to 5-digit monthly revenue
- • Generated 100k+ professional headshots for 50k+ users
- • 10k+ users in first week and 100k+ in total
- • Biggest AI tool register during that time
- • Won one of the biggest European startup competitions - Youth Budget 2021
- • Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs
- • Joined during the early days of GIGA Berlin-Brandenburg (pre-opening)
- • Selected from 350+ applicants and alongside pursuing my full-time degree
- • Project Management, General Problem Solving, Recrutiting and Market Analysis
Roundstart® (acquired)
2019 - Oct 2021
Founder
Content Management Platform for internal learning resources
- • Adopted as part of the Jugendbudget 2021
- • Built and managed a team of six - engineers, product managers and marketers
- • Founded and built alongside pursuing my A levels (Abitur)
Education
CODE University
2021 - 2023
B.Sc. Product Management and Software Engineering
Skills
Product Ideation
Distribution
Go-to-Market
Product Management
Agile Software Development
P&L Management
Growth Marketing
Data Analysis
Business Development
Excel & co
JavaScript
Flutter
Venture Capital
Leadership
Projects
Won the Youth Budget 2021
jugendstrategie.dedas-jugend-budget-eine-million-euro-fuer-die-besten-jugendideen-deutschlands/
'The Federal Youth Ministry started the new youth budget project in January 2021 and is making 1 million euros available for this.'
Competition
Product Management
Startups
Venture Capital