This profile has not been claimed and data may not be accurate.
93rd percentile
63rd percentile
YC-backed founder and CEO of Faire, valued at $12B
Credibility
Traction · 96th percentile
- Faire last raised at a $12B valuation (still private).
- Faire was co-founded with other former Square employees.
- Faire has raised $1.7B in total funding across 12 rounds.
Relationship Matrix
Most Like You
Most Complimentary
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and CEO of Faire, an online wholesale marketplace.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Faire was in the Y Combinator Winter 2017 batch.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)faire.com ranks #12,030 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Faire last raised at a $12B valuation (still private).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Faire has raised $1.7B in total funding across 12 rounds.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Faire was co-founded with other former Square employees.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with investments including withco.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has made at least 2 recorded angel investments per CB Insights.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Investing activity traceable back to at least 2019, giving approximately 2 years of confirmed investing experience.
What you likely need
You're a late-stage CEO navigating the tension between IPO readiness and day-to-day execution at Faire's scale, so the highest-value Festival events put you in rooms with public-market-ready founders, CFOs, and bankers who've been through the S-1 process. You also benefit from tight peer CEO dinners where candor is the norm, and curated intros that help you formalize your angel activity into something you can lead rather than just follow.
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.
- fundraisingA confidential dinner for $5B+ valuation private-company CEOs and their CFOs who are actively in S-1 prep or have completed a recent IPO, to compare notes on banker selection, timing windows, and dual-track optionality
- tacticalA closed roundtable with founders and GTM leads from Shopify's top marketplace and commerce-infrastructure partners to co-develop international expansion playbooks for under-penetrated retailer markets in Europe and Southeast Asia
- hiringA hiring-focused dinner with operators who have recently placed or been placed as CRO or COO at Series D+ marketplaces, to help Max identify and vet candidates who can own day-to-day execution at Faire's scale
- positioningA positioning workshop with CMOs and brand-side operators from top wholesale and DTC brands to pressure-test the 'Faire for Brands' supply-side narrative and identify the unlock for growing beyond 30,000 brand partners
- introsA YC W17 alumni dinner for batch-mates who have formalized or are formalizing angel activity into named SPVs or syndicates, to compare structures, deal-flow sourcing from the YC network, and how to lead rounds rather than participate passively
- introsA curated intro dinner with YC Continuity Fund partners and founders from recent YC batches building enterprise retail-tech, to source deals for Max's angel portfolio and identify senior operator talent worth recruiting to Faire
- wellbeingA quarterly off-site dinner for a small cohort of 6-8 CEOs who are 8+ years into leading high-growth companies — no board members, no investors — structured around avoiding decision fatigue and maintaining strategic clarity at scale