Max Marty

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Max Marty

Max Marty presents Blueseed at TEDx Monterey, April 2012
Born 1983/1984 (age 29–30)[1]
Residence Silicon Valley
Education Muhlenberg College
B.A., Global Political Economy & Philosophy
University of Miami
MBA[2]
Occupation Entrepreneur
Known for Blueseed

Max Marty is an entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, who co-founded the seed accelerator project Blueseed with Dario Mutabdzija and Dan Dascalescu. He was previously Director of Business Strategy at The Seasteading Institute.[3]

Biography

Marty was born in Florida of Cuban political refugees. He graduated from Muhlenberg College with a B.S. in Global Political Economy and Philosophy. Later, he obtained an MBA from the University of Miami.[2]

Blueseed

Main article: Blueseed

Blueseed is a startup community project that Marty co-founded in July 2011[4] with Seasteading Institute colleague Dario Mutabdzija and seasteading ambassador Dan Dascalescu.[5][6] The project is preparing to launch a ship near Silicon Valley to serve as a startup community and entrepreneurial incubator without United States work visa requirements. The platform is set to offer living and office space, high-speed Internet connectivity, and regular ferry service to the mainland.[5][6] The existence of the project is due to the lack of U.S. visas for entrepreneurs. Instead, customers will use the much easier to obtain B-1/B-2 visas to travel to the mainland, while work will be done exclusively on the ship.[5][6]

On July 31, 2013, Marty announced he was stepping back from day-to-day operations at Blueseed and taking on the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors.[7]

Appearances

Marty's first television appearances were in December 2011, on the After the Bell show with Liz Claman and David Asman[8] and on the Stossel Show with John Stossel.[9] On April 13, 2012, Marty presented Blueseed at TEDx Monterey.[10][11] He was later interviewed by Richard Quest for CNN International,[12] Melissa Francis for Fox Business[13] and Jeff Glor for CBS This Morning.[14] In November 2011, he spoke on Big Picture Science with Seth Shostak.[15]

Personal

Marty said he would like to live in a society close to minarchism[16] and if he weren't working in Blueseed, he would pursue radical but practical innovation in education, telecommunications, augmented reality, and clothing.[2]

External links

References

  1. ↑ Bruder, Jessica. "A Start-Up Incubator That Floats". New York Times. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Wise Words with Max Marty". Springwise.com. 4 July 2012. 
  3. ↑ Garrahan, Matthew (March 30, 2012). "Seachange". Financial Times. 
  4. ↑ Friedman, Patri (31 July 2011). "The Seasteading Institute - July 2011 Newsletter". The Seasteading Institute. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2012. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Lee, Timothy (2011-11-29). "Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator". Ars Technica. Retrieved 30 November 2011. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Donald, Brooke (16 December 2011). "Blueseed Startup Sees Entrepreneur-Ship as Visa Solution for Silicon Valley". Huffington Post. Retrieved 12 March 2011. 
  7. ↑ Marty, Max (2013-07-31). "Two years of Blueseed". Blueseed. Retrieved 2013-07-31. 
  8. ↑ Liz Claman; David Asman (Dec 8, 2011). "Drawing Foreign Entrepreneurs to the U.S.". After the Bell. Fox Business Network. Archived from the original on Dec 9, 2011. 
  9. ↑ Stossel, John (Dec 22, 2011). "Stossel Thu, Dec 22, 2011 - "What A Wonderful World"". Fox Business Network. Archived from the original on Jan 26, 2012. 
  10. ↑ "Theme: Sea Change". TED (conference). April 13, 2012. 
  11. ↑ Marty, Max. "Max Marty - Blueseed: Breathing New Life into Disruptive Innovation". TED (conference). 
  12. ↑ Quest, Richard (June 12, 2012). "Floating offices for entrepreneurs". CNN. Archived from the original on Jun 12, 2012. 
  13. ↑ Francis, Melissa (Sep 6, 2012). "A Startup on the High Seas". Fox Business. 
  14. ↑ "Floating city for high-tech start-ups?". CBS News. July 30, 2012. Archived from the original on Aug 20, 2012. 
  15. ↑ "Big Picture Science - Going Global: Max Marty". SETI.org. NOVEMBER 5, 2012. 
  16. ↑ "Max Marty: The pirate of Silicon Valley". MoneyWeek. Dec 13, 2011. 
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