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
JavaScript
React
Typescript
NextJS
Node.js
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
CheckFa.st
CheckFa.st
Check Product Demand & Financials In Seconds. Powered by Google search data. Built during the Google AI hackathon in SF.
JavaScript
React
Typescript
FastAPI
NextJS
JavaScript
React
Typescript
NextJS, Node.js
Glückwünsche Zur Hochzeit
GlückwünscheZurHochzeit.org
Saw a lot of search traffic for wedding wishes and built a website around it
JavaScript
React
Typescript
NextJS
Glückwünsche Zum Geburtstag AI
GlückwünscheZumGeburtstag.org
Saw a lot of search traffic for birthday wishes and built a website around it
JavaScript
React
Typescript
NextJS