Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Max Ventilla is the Co-Founder of Aardvark.He worked designing databases for the World Bank before founding an enterprise software firm that sold in the Web 1 era. Max majored in physics and mathematics at Yale before going directly into the Yale MBA program.He spent two and a half years working with the CEO of a $2 billion classified media
business, raising financing and negotiating international M&A transactions before transitioning to online business development.
He then went to Google, where he worked as a Senior Associate on monetization strategy until mid-2007.
He then co-founded The Mechanical Zoo, which has now been renamed Aardvark.
After Google bought his company, he was one of the founding members of Google+ and then Head of Cross-Google Personalization. He left Google in April 2013 to start AltSchool.
