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the a16z Podcast 5 
Startups For the Rest of Us 4 
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My First Million 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
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David Senra 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Max comes up on 20VC, All-In, TBPN, Latent Space, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Everyone Is Still Undersizing the AI Market | Eric Vishria · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 23:18 Eric Vishria But if we look at, you know, Brendan from McCore, or Lynn from Fireworks, or, or Max, or Brett, any of these people, they are so nimble
Marketing Agents Masterclass (GROW your startup)
- ▶ 30:43 Cody Schneider Like Max always says this.
U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:13 John Coogan In other news, HBO Max is launching HBO Max Shorts for those who don't have the attention span to watch an episode of TV. 3 times in the scene
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 30:56 Harry Stebbings I love Max. 5 times in the scene
The Restaurant Genius Behind Carbone, ZZ’s, Torrisi & More | Jeff Zalaznick
- ▶ 47:56 Jeff Zalaznick One day I was walking into my building, late from, you know, we didn't get out of work at JD Morgan until two, three in the morning, as you know, you know, and I had an incredible doorman named Max, and I'm walking in, and I'm talking, and…
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings I think Max is one of the most, do you know, I think it takes a psychopath to know one. 3 times in the scene
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:45 Harry Stebbings Worry about going to an Adam or an Ali or a Max and Russell or Yuzu and saying you want to sell some.
The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:07 Harry Stebbings Um, one of them is the age old, and I, I see Max from Lagora pushing back against his now, like, Anthropica can release a legal product.
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:42 Paul Graham Um, that's why he invested immediately on meeting Max, because he thought, you know, anybody else who meets this guy is going to invest in him.
- ▶ 9:03 Paul Graham You know, this whole point is now kind of obviated because you've now met Max, but I'll tell you what I was going to say anyway. 6 times in the scene
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:20 Patrick Forquer Uh, Vilgat told me to go to Best Buy and buy an Apple computer, and then I went and had a couple videos of Max doing a demo.
- ▶ 45:38 Patrick Forquer And so we still find that these sort of thought leadership AI thought leadership dinners are super effective and they cost a lot of money and you have to, you know, get some talent in the room from a, you know, from a thought leader point…
- ▶ 48:59 Patrick Forquer I mean, he got me, that's how I got connected with, with Max was, was through, was through Logan.
- ▶ 59:02 Harry Stebbings But what I love about Benioff, which I actually see in Max, is Max would get on every freaking plane. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:19 Harry Stebbings Um, I think Max is one of the, my, well, pretty great theories, I'm very lucky. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:33 Harry Stebbings You and Max know they're great.
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 48:56 Ranjan Roy HBO Max actually, to their premium positioning, only 14 99 to 18 99 now.
Hollywood CEO: How to Look Powerful in Any Room | Jeremy Zimmer
- ▶ 14:16 Codie Sanchez It was Max.
The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
- ▶ 1:01:35 Jeremy Epling I felt like GitHub's always done that, like, really well in the past with, like, pull requests and all the different things, and I think it's done a good job with them, and I think Max, who, like, led the design team when I was there, I…
Jake Paul on Endorsing Trump & the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale
Netflix’s Next Move, Zuck’s $170M Florida Mansion, the Billionaire Tax Push | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:25 unnamed speaker Uh, so the result is that David Ellison is handing over a hundred and eleven billion dollars in exchange for Warner Brothers, HBO Max, CNN, and the other cable networks. 2 times in the scene
Netflix Lost. Now What?
- ▶ 3:14 unnamed speaker Uh, so the result is that David Ellison is handing over a hundred and eleven billion dollars in exchange for Warner Brothers, HBO Max, CNN, and the other cable networks.
- ▶ 6:52 unnamed speaker And so, they have the money to spend, uh, but also they're direct competitors in streaming with Paramount Plus and HBO Max, and so there's a question about how friendly will they be, you know, you, you, if you license all the good HBO…
Claude Code & MCPs built my $145K marketing machine
- ▶ 46:02 Cody Schneider Like, when I look at, like, my co-founder, Max, right, and his technical vocabulary, how he can describe the problem 3 times in the scene
The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:33 John Coogan Netflix has ample cash and could bump up its offer for HBO Max owner Warner Brothers Discovery if competing bidder
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:49 unnamed speaker And sell its movie and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service to Netflix.
Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:10 unnamed speaker This has been the backbone of the case for, like, let Netflix buy Warner Brothers, even though they'll get HBO Max, like, you're merging two seemingly big streaming platforms, but the combined watch time will still be lower than YouTube,…
Davos Reactions, Waymo in the News, WB & Netflix Strike All Cash Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:16 Jordi Hays So Warner Brothers Discovery and Netflix said Tuesday they struck a new all-cash deal for Netflix to buy Warner Brothers Studios and HBO Max.
“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey
- ▶ 1:31:41 Matt McGinnis It's on HBO max.
TBPN Year in Review
- ▶ 18:06 Jordi Hays Number 23 is HBO Max.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:17 Rory O'Driscoll It's, you know, it was founded, it was incubated in Time, then it was Time Warner, then Time Warner AOL, and then, dear God, AT&T, and then they finally get out to be Warner Brothers Discovery, and they're kind of on their own, doing their…
Paramount Strikes Back, Ads In Gemini, Bieber’s Apple Beef | Diet TBPN
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 51:49 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Brothers for seventy-two billion after the entertainment company splits its studios and HBO Max streaming businesses, a business from its cable networks, a deal that would reshape the entertainment and… 2 times in the scene
Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers, Apple’s Leadership Shakeup, SpaceX Prepares For IPO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:08 unnamed speaker They're gonna buy Warner Brothers and HBO Max for an 82.7 billion dollar deal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:07 unnamed speaker So Netflix signaled it would keep HBO Max as a discreet service, while it also touted the addition of HBO and HBO Max content to its lineup, and so we're going to add the deep film and TV libraries and HBO to an HBO Max programming. 3 times in the scene
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 2:40 Henri Stern The other thing I was going to say just about Bridge's beginnings is we had an early all hands at Privy, where it was a lunch and learn, and one of our teammates, Max, worked with Zach prior.
Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire
- ▶ 51:38 David Friedberg And obviously, Paramount Plus and HBO Max have their own streaming services to deliver their own content.
How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 47:59 Molly O'Shea There are two topics that Max wanted me to ask you. 2 times in the scene
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 11:27 Chris Lattner Yeah, well, so today you can download Macs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:26 Shawn Wang You talked about Max.
- ▶ 32:49 Chris Lattner Now you can use Macs and Colab for free.
- ▶ 37:36 Chris Lattner Like I, I want, I want those people to use max. 7 times in the scene
Superpower Raises $30M Series A Led by Forerunner · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 34:30 Jacob Peters Uh, Max, who, uh, is my co-founder.
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:33 Adarsh Hiremath So, uh, we general catalyst, uh, led the round and really, really enjoy working with, uh, Max and Nico.
Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
- ▶ 54:08 Saagar Enjeti Uh, like, now I'm getting hyped for House of the Dragon, because HBO has a, they have an app specifically for the Vision Pro, and they're, the Max app on Vision Pro is insane.
How AI Might Solve the Alien Mystery: Thought Leader's Paradox · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 54:01 Joe Lonsdale I wrote a piece about this in Arena Magazine, Max's new magazine, I had a piece on how to spend a trillion dollars better, and this is my favorite example, is all the tunneling in the Tri-City area.
How This Guy Makes His Entire Year's Revenue in Black Friday WEEK
- ▶ 14:49 Greg Isenberg So instead of doing like buy something and you get a gift card, I think that if people have credit that is, look, hello, hello, Max, you've got store credit, which is about to expire for good on Sunday.
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 4:06 David Rosenthal Max, Umar, Dustin, Hannah, Vinny, Nick, Amy, Carly, and so many others.
8 startup ideas backed by data/trends to get you paid (steal these $1M+/year ideas)
- ▶ 52:33 Cody Schneider There's actually a business that my co-founder and I, Max, were thinking about building at one point.
Inside the Tech Powering Your Streaming Obsession — With Conviva CEO Keith Zubchevich
- ▶ 6:51 Alex Kantrowitz I was just watching on, on, uh, max watching the NHL and NBA playoffs on two devices in the same house at the same time, crystal clear quality.
Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
- ▶ 1:14:23 Jack Clark But, uh, when I go to DC at the moment, I watch on, on, on United Airlines, there's Chernobyl on HBO Max.
YouTube Creator and Cookbook Author: Rosanna Pansino
E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- ▶ 1:04:02 Chamath Palihapitiya If you look at Macs, they're gonna lose fifty-odd percent.
- ▶ 1:15:22 David Friedberg HBO Max to be the best content out there. 2 times in the scene
Episode 678 | Selling a Half-Finished Product, Phased Launches, a...
- ▶ 4:07 Rob Walling Thanks for the question, Max, and for keeping it succinct. 4 times in the scene
Multipreneurship 101 and Why It Matters
- ▶ 13:13 Jesse Pujji And they had decided they wanted to build an OTT service, you know, uh, like HBO max of stars, you know, it's a multi-billion dollar company.
Nabeil Alazzam, Founder of Forma.ai | How the First Enterprise Sale Leads to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- ▶ 5:13 Nabeil Alazzam And I spoke to Max and I said, look, I'm being asked by, you know, this, this, the CFO to come in and help out on this problem.
Scott Harrison: From Nightclub Promoter to Charity Water Founder (#443)
- ▶ 45:14 Scott Harrison Or two HBO Max's.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 4:21 Olivia Moore FinTech, more utility or, or business apps like Zoom, and then traditional media apps like kind of HBO Max.
- ▶ 8:24 Olivia Moore And you're competing against like some of the other number ones this year were like NBC's Peacock streaming service, Planet Fitness, DoorDash, HBO Max, these big companies that have tons of marketing resources.
Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez
- ▶ 35:50 Frank Azor And, uh, and I said, hey, uh, you know, I'm, um, Frank and, uh, you know, I think Max talked to you about me.
Build better products with continuous product discovery | Teresa Torres
- ▶ 10:36 Teresa Torres Cause maybe you're deciding, I want to watch Game of Thrones and that's right away sending you to HBO Max.
HOORAE: Issa Rae
How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
- ▶ 39:12 Jason Calacanis I think it's like some, it's either Disney or HBO max, you know, their bundles or whatever.
E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 55:15 David Friedberg I personally think HBO Max is the best streaming service now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:30 David Sacks I can't think of, like, a show now that I watch on Netflix, and I do watch HBO Max right now and Disney Plus, because they got some shows that I like. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:30 David Friedberg Do you think that WarnerMedia is operating HBO Max differently 3 times in the scene
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40:44 Ben Gilbert HBO Max producing movies with DC IP that is produced by WarnerMedia that is owned by, who's WarnerMedia owned by at this point?
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 25:12 David Friedberg So instead of paying 70 dollars across HBO Max and Disney Plus and Netflix, you get everything in one.
- ▶ 1:01:05 Chamath Palihapitiya The real question is at what point do they start to sort of like run out of the things that they can do to keep people, um, engaged and otherwise they, Jason, do what you did, which is you have a subscription to HBO Max. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:09 Jason Calacanis These archives are gonna be super valuable, and I don't think we even know how to value these archives yet, because if you look at the Marvel archive or the Star Wars archive, these things just keep printing money year after year, and then… 3 times in the scene
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 1:19 David Friedberg Max, the dealer, tested positive, and everyone been hanging out in the poker room with no masks on. 2 times in the scene
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 1:02:04 David Friedberg I like HBO Max more than Disney Plus. 5 times in the scene
20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth
- ▶ 29:53 Adam Foroughi And so we ended up aqua hiring a company called Mac, built up that technology ourselves, and said, we can improve what's 8 times in the scene
20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
- ▶ 2:25 Harry Stebbings I heard so much from Jeremy and from Max before the show, but thank you so much for joining me today.
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 47:13 David Friedberg HBO Max, Hulu. 2 times in the scene
E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- ▶ 1:20:32 Chamath Palihapitiya Uh, you should watch, you should watch, you should watch Gamora on HBO Max.
20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
- ▶ 17:01 Harry Stebbings We mentioned in many different cases there, and often board members are investors, as we said with Max there and Antoine earlier.
a16z Podcast | Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs
- ▶ 8:55 Ilan Zechory If I'm feeling something about, uh, let's just say, uh, Max who works here. 3 times in the scene
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:30 Shola Akinlade It's gonna be called Max or NG, I think.
EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
- ▶ 21:47 Nathan Latka If you enjoyed Roy today, go back and listen to Max yesterday. 2 times in the scene
EP 346: Non-Profit Builds 100+ Homes, Goal 1,000 Communities with Brett Hagler
- ▶ 17:27 Nathan Latka If you enjoyed Brett today, go back and listen to Max from yesterday. 2 times in the scene
EP 339: The $10M Website Seller Empire Flippers
- ▶ 1:18 Nathan Latka Coming up bright and early tomorrow morning, you're gonna hear from Max in episode 3:40 2 times in the scene
EP 309: Ad Tech Company Hits $500k in 2015 Revenue with 26 Year Old At Helm
- ▶ 7:16 Nicholas Haas Um, so we took all, we, we pooled in my business partner and I, we, we put in, um, Max 2 times in the scene
Hilary Mason // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013
- ▶ 16:05 unnamed speaker Hi, Max from Bloomberg.