Maxwell Krohn

Co-founder of: keybase.io, OkCupid, SparkNotes, TheSpark. Author of: OKWS, TameJS, IcedCoffeeScript, WarpWallet and OneShallPass. Max is a Venture Partner of Corazon Capital. Previously, Max co-founded and served as CTO of TheSpark.com, SparkNotes (sold to Barnes & Noble) and OkCupid, one of the world's most successful online dating companies (sold to Match.com). He now works full-time on Keybase.io, a new approach to simplifying and deploying public key cryptography to resolve the conflicts between security and convenience. Max earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College summa cum laude in Computer Science and Mathematics, and a Masters and PhD from MIT in Computer Science.