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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

Listen to my chat with @brettberson about my favorite topic: how to build, measure and scale company culture...

First Round

@firstround

2 years

New on In Depth today: @Max has worn many hats as @Instacart 's co-founder, but he’s been uniquely focused on culture. He shares tactical advice on how founders can craft unique values, make sure they actually guide behavior and avoid common mistakes. 🎧:

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 months

How it started 🥕 How it's going 🛒

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Max Mullen

@Max

1 year

Shoutout to the founders who send their investor updates on time!

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@Max

6 years

I'm so proud of the @Instacart team today! We launched in our first country outside of the US! 🇨🇦 Instacart.ca

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@Max

1 year

Parents are severely underserved. Who are the best founders building for parents/families? Cc @anneleeskates

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

Pro tip: If you are interviewing for a job, have a very tight 2 minute summary of your career prepared when introducing yourself.

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Max Mullen

@Max

1 year

*AI has entered the cart*

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Max Mullen

@Max

9 months

Just gave a talk at @HF0Residency that an AI wrote for me, after training itself on videos of all the previous talks I’ve given + my blog posts. Wild world.

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Max Mullen

@Max

3 years

My co-founder of 9+ years @Apoorva_Mehta is becoming Executive Chairman of @Instacart and we warmly welcome @FidjisSimo as incoming CEO.

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

We just open sourced 3 Million @Instacart orders in the name of #DataScience !

3 Million Instacart Orders, Open Sourced

Curious about the food Americans eat? Look no further.

tech.instacart.com

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

I’m incredibly proud of our amazing team — we’ve gone so far together and there’s still a huge opportunity ahead

With $600 million in new funding, Instacart is a unicorn times seven - Fast Company

Six months ago, this grocery-delivery startup was valued at $4.3 billion, a figure that just shot up by 75%.

www.fastcompany.com

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Max Mullen

@Max

9 months

Spent the past 2 hours @HF0Residency talking to founders about the latest in AI, then a driverless @Cruise drove me home for free. It’s easy to be optimistic about SF’s future.

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

Welcoming our new hires on Mondays @Instacart is my favorite part of the job.

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

If your startup is less than a year old and you’re acting like everything’s figured out…you’re lying

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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

Check out our new 🥕:

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

Today we welcome the wonderful team from @Unata to @Instacart !

Instacart acquires Canada-based grocery ecommerce platform Unata

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Instacart announced that it has acquired...

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Max Mullen

@Max

1 year

A few startups I know of designing services specifically for parents/families… Food: @OrdoSchools @OrderShef and of course… @Instacart Childcare: @JuneCareCo @WithOtter @wonderschools @Winnie @urbansitter Health: @joinsummer Learning: @JuniLearning @cambly Laundry: @SudShare

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Max Mullen

@Max

9 months

Our mission is to give everyone access to the food they love AND more time to enjoy it together. Today we moved one step ahead by launching SNAP on @Instacart in all 50 states. Huge congrats to the Health team and our retail partners working tirelessly to reduce food insecurity!

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

I'm excited to help early stage entrepreneurs as part of the Product Co-op:

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

Whole team strong @Instacart

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Max Mullen

@Max

4 years

Today we're announcing a dedicated support line for our senior customers. I'm so proud of the team behind this program, which has already helped over 60,000 Seniors get groceries and Rx delivered safely!

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

Our hard-working team has generated some impressive results:

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Max Mullen

@Max

3 years

Congrats to the whole Caper team and welcome to @Instacart !

Instacart acquires Caper AI, a smart cart and instant checkout startup, for $350M, as it moves...

Instacart made its name by providing a way for consumers to bypass shopping in stores in person, by ordering items online and getting them delivered to

techcrunch.com

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Max Mullen

@Max

4 years

If you’re interviewing with me @Instacart please ask me hard questions!

First Round

@firstround

4 years

Don't play it safe when asking questions of your interview panel, says @Max . "As an interviewer you're often answering the same questions over and over — a hard question gives you pause and actually makes you think on the fly."

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Max Mullen

@Max

9 years

Emerging trend: the "conversational UI" http://t.co/NgTZm64pWA

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Max Mullen

@Max

10 months

@jaltma send me location

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

Listening to @btaylor drop productivity knowledge at @quip

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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

We started @Instacart to make shopping for nutritious food effortless. Today we’re doubling down with Instacart Health!

dani dudeck

@danidudeck

2 years

With Instacart Health, we’re expanding access to healthy food, including in underserved communities - “96% of the U.S. has access to @Instacart so we’ve made enormous progress — but the job’s not done.” - @fidjissimo Excellent read via @Bloomberg

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Max Mullen

@Max

10 months

Two of my favorite people - if you’re a startup ceo you should listen asap!

Brett Berson

@brettberson

10 months

New "In Depth" pod with @jaltma . We get into all the different facets of growing from founder to CEO. What's so good about the conversation is Jack has constantly pragmatic and implementable advice for each stage of company growth.

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Max Mullen

@Max

10 years

Really proud of our team @Instacart which today launched Apple Pay via @Stripe :

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Max Mullen

@Max

10 months

We love to see it!!

Austen Allred

@Austen

10 months

Showed my wife ChatGPT this morning (she’s usually a late adopter). A couple hours later and she has it calculating nutritional intake for the family, then turning that to meal plans -> grocery list -> Instacart order. In <5 mins. “This used to hours every week. I might cry.”

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

Only @elonmusk can tweet one week about how SpaceX blew up a bunch of rockets and then announce teleportation the next week.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

7 years

BFR will take you anywhere on Earth in less than 60 mins

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Max Mullen

@Max

9 years

200+ @Instacart employees gathered last week in San Francisco and it was a blast! Join us: http://t.co/hfiicmj3cP http://t.co/WMh7ToNABA

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

Know someone who needs feedback on their early product? Tell them to join working sessions with myself, @ptr & @oteich over the next few weeks:

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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

Makes me so happy to see @Instacart alums do well. @wynnandrewj and @pchekuri are two exceptional founders that embody our core value of Roll Up Your Sleeves.

Andrew Wynn

@wynnandrewj

2 years

We're excited to share Ascend's $30m Series A fundraise led by @Mark_Goldberg_ to further our mission of making it easier for people to protect the things they care about.

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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

@cjc @firstround founders can templatize and automate a lot of this with @GetCabal !

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

I’m super excited to welcome Mark to the @Instacart team!

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

6 years

Instacart brings on Mark Schaaf as Chief Technology Officer by @jordanrcrook

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

Revealing our new cross-platform design system @Instacart @instacartdesign

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

Austin, Dallas, St. Louis, get ready for Sam’s Club delivery!

Apoorva Mehta

@apoorva_mehta

6 years

Super excited to add @SamsClub as a partner on @Instacart to bring retail online and make instant delivery the default.

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

Once in a career opportunity to join @firstround and help @brettberson build their platform team:

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Max Mullen

@Max

5 years

73% of our shoppers are women and 51% have kids — and today we announced another great step toward improving their experience on Instacart with new perks like access to and Stride Health

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

I curated a few of my favorite posts on consumer growth, did I miss any good ones?

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Max Mullen

@Max

5 years

I’m really excited to be in Toronto speaking with @WatchSavannah about @Instacart company culture on the Startup University stage @CollisionHQ

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Max Mullen

@Max

4 years

@leahculver I’ll just say...this algorithm is heavily personalized to you so maybe it knows you better than yourself?

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Max Mullen

@Max

5 years

Mobile notifications should be smarter based on the sender and message content: 1) text from a new number: no sound 2) rapid messages from friends in a group chat: just 1 sound 3) emergency text from my wife: ring until answered

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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

Hungry? We’re serving up a new meals experience in the @Instacart app + 30 min delivery…

Fidji Simo

@fidjissimo

2 years

Ready Meals are here! Ordering some 🍣 now…

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

If you see people waiting in a line, there's a startup to be founded there.

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

Sooo...what’s your number? (...The number of bitcoins you sold too early)

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

Instacart ❤️’s Wegmans

Wegmans to launch e-commerce with Instacart

Companies hail “milestone” partnership

www.supermarketnews.com

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

Instacart is coming to a town near you!

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

@bchesky AirbnbAir

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

Can we agree this is a confusing UI?

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Max Mullen

@Max

10 years

Customers take notice when you go out of your way to make a product simple

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

I won the iPhone X lottery tonight with a Nov 3 date. These are going to be a sweet 2-3 weeks.

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Max Mullen

@Max

9 years

meetings @Instacart http://t.co/iePYqnOpGW

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

I wanted a book from Amazon...but it was out of stock.

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

Congrats @United , you literally have the worst sign-in experience I have ever seen:

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Max Mullen

@Max

10 years

atm @Instacart is delivering my groceries, @WashioApp is delivering my laundry & @luxevalet is delivering my car…I better get home!

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

We’re coming to Hawaii!

K5

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 months

@JackK @fidjissimo @shiftb @apoorva_mehta makeup

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

Halloween @Instacart @LifeAtInstacart - "Star Men"

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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

@fahim @GetCabal It was Thursday

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

Nice day today!

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

140 characters is the perfect amount of space to whine about something without providing any details

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

Product people: don't neglect your stakeholders!

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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

Super excited about the future for @superblocks ! The team is awesome and I love the focus on developers. Internal tools is such an important and large space that's finally getting the attention it deserves...

Brad Menezes

@bradmenezes

2 years

Excited to announce @superblocks $37M funding round led by @kleinerperkins , @sparkcapital , @MeritechCapital & Greenoaks alongside world-renowned operators We’re on a mission to save developers 1000s of hours building custom internal tools. A thread 👇

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Max Mullen

@Max

9 years

Meerkat is proof that people are bored most of the time

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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

Trevor is one of the most determined founders...very important when building a bank :)

Trevor McKendrick

@TrevMcKendrick

2 years

I’m super excited to announce my new company: Seis – banking built 100% in Spanish for the 44 million Spanish speakers in the US

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

why does it feel so good to close a lot of Chrome tabs?

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

I'm excited to support @QuitGenius in their mission to help 100,000 people quit smoking:

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Max Mullen

@Max

5 years

@far33d LinkedIn is not a social network. It’s a reverse job board.

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

Our partner @SchnuckMarkets estimates that recently @Instacart delivered about 3 tons of dog food to 796 patiently waiting dogs

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Max Mullen

@Max

2 years

@damon_sf @jordanstaniscia - @instacart logo 2.0 had a really good run 🙏🏼

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

How people interpret probabilistic words:

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Max Mullen

@Max

4 years

a chrome plugin that keeps track of how often you're late to video meetings

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Max Mullen

@Max

9 years

all hands @Instacart ! actually these are about half our hands...shout out to the remote teams! http://t.co/3eWRTjJbZr

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Max Mullen

@Max

5 years

I'm super excited about our growing Toronto based team!

BetaKit

@BetaKit

5 years

Instacart taps Wealthsimple CTO for VP Engineering as company secures new Toronto office space #retail

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Max Mullen

@Max

4 years

If you're raising a seed round, check out Mercury Raise:

immad

@immad

4 years

1/ Excited to unveil Mercury Raise today - a program to directly connect our early-stage startups with top investors. We have 40+ investors in the program including @eladgil , @alisonbarrallen , @shl , @ryanhoover , @a16z , @sequoia and @crv .

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Max Mullen

@Max

4 years

@lennysan @jputrevu @diegoyret @b4bendetta @JonathanHillis @deniseleung Btw I think an interesting stat is how many engineers were at companies when the first PM was hired - for us around 20

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

"Buzz: Positive" —Fast Company

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Max Mullen

@Max

7 years

the 3 reasons startups die: 0 founder chemistry 0 customers 0 $$$

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Max Mullen

@Max

10 months

@jaltma careful, that’s my home turf… you might get a cleanup on aisle 4

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Max Mullen

@Max

10 years

"Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life" - Will Ferrell http://t.co/EjURFNjTSD

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Max Mullen

@Max

4 years

@zackkanter - first time someone moves their family to work for you

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

Netflix should post the first season of Stranger Things in its entirety on YouTube to show the other half what they're missing

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

And today we’re going to do it again!

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Max Mullen

@Max

8 years

Meetings @Instacart

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Max Mullen

@Max

3 years

Google Home easter egg discovery: set a timer for kids bedtime and instead of just ringing, Google Home announces that it’s bedtime and plays a lullaby - thx @JackK

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Max Mullen

@Max

4 years

@jputrevu @diegoyret @lennysan @b4bendetta @JonathanHillis I hired @deniseleung 2.5 years in and we were about 75 employees then.

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Max Mullen

@Max

5 years

@m2jr @JonahNRO no max does

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Max Mullen

@Max

6 years

A product you use everyday but probably don’t know much about: The Dry Erase Marker.

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Max Mullen

@Max

4 years

Really interesting data yet again!

First Round

@firstround

4 years

Proud to present @firstround 's 5th Annual State of Startups Survey. For the first time ever, we heard from 950 founders *and* employees on everything from Glassdoor reviews and remote work to mental health and pressure on CEOs. Here's what they told us: