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Max Schireson  |  August 31, 2023
To Build Value in Tech, Build Different

This post originally appeared on our Condensing the Cloud Substack, read it in full here.

 

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Max is a partner based in Battery's Menlo Park office, and former CEO of database company MongoDB. He focuses on investing in artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies.

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