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Founder189Current founder
94th percentile
Investor92Current investor
93rd percentile
Combined
Instacart co-founder (YC S12, IPO) and active angel investor in 100+ startups
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 98th percentile
- Current co-founder of Instacart, actively running the company since July 2012.
- Instacart is a Y Combinator Summer 2012 company.
- Past co-founder of Volly, an earlier startup he founded in 2010.
- Instacart was co-founded with Apoorva Mehta and Brandon Leonardo.
- Google maintains a Knowledge Graph panel for Max Mullen as Co-Founder of Instacart — a hard-to-manufacture notability threshold.
- Featured in a YouTube interview 'Founder Mode Live at San Francisco Tech Week with Max Mullen (Instacart) & Andrew Ofstad (Airtable)' with 11,459 views.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current co-founder of Instacart, actively running the company since July 2012.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Instacart is a Y Combinator Summer 2012 company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)instacart.com ranks #5,246 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Instacart was co-founded with Apoorva Mehta and Brandon Leonardo.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Google maintains a Knowledge Graph panel for Max Mullen as Co-Founder of Instacart — a hard-to-manufacture notability threshold.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Instacart (Maplebear Inc.) went public via IPO in September 2023 and currently trades at approximately a $10B market cap.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past co-founder of Volly, an earlier startup he founded in 2010.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Verified GitHub account @maxmullen linked from LinkedIn profile.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @maxmullen has been active for approximately 15 years (created July 2010).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub contribution graph shows 298 total contributions in the trailing 12 months.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub shows 298 private/restricted contributions in the last year, indicating active private code shipping.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Featured in a YouTube interview 'Founder Mode Live at San Francisco Tech Week with Max Mullen (Instacart) & Andrew Ofstad (Airtable)' with 11,459 views.
Investor score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with 100+ startup investments, per his personal website and CBInsights.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)CBInsights tracks 47 active investments in Max Mullen's portfolio.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has been actively investing in startups since approximately 2010, representing roughly 15 years of investing experience.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)CBInsights records 5 portfolio exits for Max Mullen's angel investments.
What you likely need
As a co-founder of a publicly traded YC company and active angel investor with 100+ investments, you'd benefit most from high-signal founder and investor crossover events — dinners and roundtables where you can both share hard-won operator wisdom and source your next deals. Your Workshop founder community in San Francisco signals you already value curated peer networks, so events that deepen those ties with other late-stage and post-IPO founders would be especially valuable.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC S12 / early-batch founder dinner to reconnect with peers who've navigated the IPO journey and compare notes on post-public-company life.
- introsAn angel investor roundtable with other prolific SF-based angels (50+ deals) to share deal flow and co-invest theses in consumer and marketplace startups.
- tacticalA post-IPO founder workshop for operators who've taken companies public, focused on navigating public-market pressures while staying product-focused.
- positioningA dinner for founders who run peer communities (like Workshop) to exchange playbooks on curating high-signal founder networks in SF.
- tacticalA marketplace and on-demand economy operator roundtable with founders scaling two-sided platforms, drawing on Instacart's supply/demand expertise.
- introsAn office-hours session pairing experienced angels like Max with seed-stage founders seeking both capital and operator mentorship from someone who scaled to IPO.
- introsA follow-up 'Founder Mode' dinner with the SF Tech Week speaker cohort to deepen relationships with other operators who presented alongside Max.