| Blog | startup-russia.com |
| Birthplace | Moscow |
Max Skibinsky is serial entrepreneur, angel investor & start-up mentor. He is currently Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Inporia, author of startup-russia.com blog.
Prior to that he was Founder and CEO of Hive7, a social gaming company known for its smash hit game “Knighthood” that grown to 6M players on Facebook. In 2010 Hive7 was sold to Playdom for multi-M$ deal which in turn was sold to Disney few months later.
Max holds Masters degree in theoretical physics from Moscow State University. Originally from Moscow, Max dropped out from PhD program& left motherland fifteen years ago bound for Silicon Valley and never looked back.
When not designing, recruiting, brainstorming, advising, and building startups Max can be found flying in general vicinity of Palo Alto airspace or enjoying the furious thrills of rollerblade soccer.
