More About Me Than You Wanted to Know
My name is Max Nussenbaum, and this is my web site.
I’m an internal writer at Stripe, where I help communicate about what we’re building across the company. On the side, I ghostwrite dating app profiles with Style My Profile. I also write Candy for Breakfast, an email newsletter about funny feelings, weird careers, making art, American history, and how to be alive.
Before Upside, I worked at On Deck, where I built products for founders and ran On Deck Writers, which was kind of like a startup accelerator for internet writers. Before that, I was cofounder and CEO of Castle (YC W16), a property management startup.
I was part of the inaugural class of Venture for America, where I bought and restored a formerly-abandoned mansion in Detroit with some friends who later became my Castle cofounders.
At various other points in my life I’ve been a graphic designer, web developer, fiction writer, mediocre freestyle rapper, game show contestant, musical lyricist, and probably a few other things.
You can find me on Twitter (definitely), Instagram (a little personal, but sure), LinkedIn (just vomited), and Goodreads.
You can email me at .