Max Anderson
Author and founder | Stagecoach Ventures
Max is an entrepreneur and author. He is the founder of Stagecoach Ventures and author of the The Weekend Reader, a deep thinker's guide to modern culture, and is the Author of Modern Meditations: Reflections from the Mid-Point of the Second Decade of the Twenty-first Century. Max is the founder and CEO of The Lift Seminar—a personal accelerator for entrepreneurs, and a platform for teaching MBAs at the world's top business schools the secrets of massive personal productivity.
Max co-founded the MBA Oath upon graduating with honors from Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School in 2009. He co-authored a book of the same title, The MBA Oath (Penguin Portfolio) with Peter Escher in 2010.
Max has spoken at universities, companies, and not-for-profit organizations across the United States and Europe. His work has been profiled by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NPR's Weekend Edition, and dozens of other media outlets.
Max received an A.B. in History from Princeton University. He began his career at McKinsey & Co. in New York City, followed by work with leading organizations across the for-profit and non-profit world including Google, The Charlie Rose Show, Redeemer Presbyterian Church and, most recently, Bridgewater Associates -- where he served in a number of leadership capacities as a member of the firm's senior management cohort and as director of the firm's Investment Associate leadership program.
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Modern Meditations: Reflections from the Mid-Point of the Second Decade of the Twenty-first Century
CONTRIBUTIONS TO FAITH DRIVEN ENTREPRENEUR
My grandfather taught me the second verse I ever learned. It was his kind of life verse, which is Nahum 1:7. And any time your life verse is in Nahum you know you're the real deal person, by the way. So it says the Lord is good. A stronghold in the day of trouble.