Max Mullen
Co-founder of Instacart; founder of Workshop
Max Mullen is a co-founder of Instacart, the grocery delivery and pickup marketplace that went through Y Combinator in summer 2012 and began trading on Nasdaq in September 2023. Before Instacart he worked at the interactive agency Schematic from 2004 to 2010, founded the group-decision app Volly and worked in product at Location Labs. Since April 2024 he has run Workshop, a founder community in San Francisco.
Instacart
Y Combinator
- Grocery delivery
- Startup investing
Workshop
- Now
- Founder, Workshop; co-founder of Instacart2
- Based
- San Francisco Bay Area2
- Education
- B.S., University of Southern California2
- YC batch
- Instacart, Summer 20121
In their words
I co-founded Instacart, where I led product, helped scale the company, shepherded our culture and launched new bets. As a startup investor I've backed the founders of over 100 companies including Checkr, Deel, Gumloop, Lattice, Mercury, Newfront & Owner. I also run a founder community in SF called Workshop.
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Experience
- FounderApr 2024 – now
Runs Workshop, a free, application-only community for early-stage founders with a space in SoMa, San Francisco.5
- Co-founderJul 2012 – now
Started Instacart in 2012 with Apoorva Mehta and Brandon Leonardo; the company went through Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch.1
- Product2Aug 2011 – Aug 2012
- Founder and CEO2010 – 2011
Volly was an app for making group decisions with friends.3
Education
B.S., Business Administration (Entrepreneurship), cum laude2
Milestones
- Joins the interactive agency Schematic as a systems engineer2
- Graduates from USC's Marshall School of Business, where he studied entrepreneurship4
- Founds Volly, a group-decision app, and runs it as CEO2
- Joins Location Labs in product2
- Co-founds Instacart, which goes through Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch1
- Speaks at Startup Grind Toronto as Instacart's co-founder7
- Instacart prices its IPO at $30 a share and begins trading on Nasdaq as CART6
- Founds Workshop, a founder community in San Francisco2