Max Marty
{{short description|American entrepreneur}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Max Marty
| image = Max Marty presents Blueseed at TEDx Monterey, April 2012.jpg
| caption = Marty presents Blueseed at TEDx Monterey, April 2012.
| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|27|2011|12|14}}{{cite web |last=Bruder |first=Jessica |title=A Start-Up Incubator That Floats |url=http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/the-start-up-boat/ |work=New York Times|date=14 December 2011 }}
| birth_place =
| education = Muhlenberg College
B.A., Global Political Economy & Philosophy
University of Miami
MBA{{cite web |title=Wise Words with Max Marty |url=http://www.springwise.com/features/wise_words/wise-words-max-marty/ |publisher=Springwise.com |date=4 July 2012 |access-date=21 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711005336/http://www.springwise.com/features/wise_words/wise-words-max-marty/ |archive-date=11 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}
| occupation = Entrepreneur
| known_for = Blueseed
| website =
}}
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.{{cite web |last=Garrahan |first=Matthew |title=Seachange |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6b2904e-77eb-11e1-b437-00144feab49a.html |publisher=Financial Times |date=March 30, 2012}}
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.
Blueseed
{{Main|Blueseed}}
Blueseed is a startup community project that Marty co-founded in July 2011{{cite web |last=Friedman |first=Patri |title=The Seasteading Institute - July 2011 Newsletter |url=http://www.seasteading.org/2011/07/the-seasteading-institute-july-2011-newsletter#blueseed |publisher=The Seasteading Institute |accessdate=12 March 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404172430/http://www.seasteading.org/2011/07/the-seasteading-institute-july-2011-newsletter/#blueseed |archivedate=4 April 2012 |date=31 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} with Seasteading Institute colleague Dario Mutabdzija and seasteading ambassador Dan Dascalescu. 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.{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Timothy |title=Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/startup-hopes-to-hack-the-immigration-system-with-a-floating-incubator.ars |accessdate=30 November 2011 |newspaper=Ars Technica |date=2011-11-29}}{{cite news |last=Donald |first=Brooke |title=Blueseed Startup Sees Entrepreneur-Ship as Visa Solution for Silicon Valley |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/16/blueseed-startup-sees-ent_n_1153300.html |accessdate=12 March 2011 |newspaper=Huffington Post |date=16 December 2011}} 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.
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.{{cite web |url=http://blueseed.co/blog/two-years-of-blueseed/ |title=Two years of Blueseed |last=Marty |first=Max |date=2013-07-31 |accessdate=2013-07-31 |publisher=Blueseed |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821073922/http://blueseed.co/blog/two-years-of-blueseed/ |archivedate=2013-08-21 }}
Appearances
Marty's first television appearances were in December 2011, on the After the Bell show with Liz Claman and David Asman{{cite web |title=Drawing Foreign Entrepreneurs to the U.S. |url=http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1317061412001/ |work=After the Bell |publisher=Fox Business Network |author=Liz Claman |author2=David Asman |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512065609/http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1317061412001/ |archivedate=May 12, 2012 |date=Dec 8, 2011}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlhsr-hqIE0 Alt URL] and on the Stossel Show with John Stossel.{{cite web |last=Stossel |first=John |title=Stossel Thu, Dec 22, 2011 - "What A Wonderful World" |url=http://hulu.com/watch/319732/stossel-thu-dec-22-2011 |publisher=Fox Business Network |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122001634/http://www.hulu.com/watch/319732/stossel-thu-dec-22-2011 |archivedate=2012-01-22 |date=Dec 22, 2011 |url-status=dead }} On April 13, 2012, Marty presented Blueseed at TEDx Monterey.{{cite web |title=Theme: Sea Change |url=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/4085 |publisher=TED (conference) |date=April 13, 2012}}{{cite web |last=Marty |first=Max |title=Max Marty - Blueseed: Breathing New Life into Disruptive Innovation |url=http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Max-Marty-Blueseed-Breathing-Ne |publisher=TED (conference)}} He was later interviewed by Richard Quest for CNN International,{{cite web |last=Quest |first=Richard |title=Floating offices for entrepreneurs |url=http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/business/2012/06/12/blueseed-interview-qmb.cnn.html |publisher=CNN |authorlink=Richard Quest |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616051952/http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/business/2012/06/12/blueseed-interview-qmb.cnn.html |archivedate=June 16, 2012 |date=June 12, 2012}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mtg8W-6w8 Alt URL] Melissa Francis for Fox Business{{cite web |last=Francis |first=Melissa |title=A Startup on the High Seas |url=http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1826599887001 |publisher=Fox Business |date=Sep 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907194506/http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1826599887001/ |archivedate=2012-09-07 }} and Jeff Glor for CBS This Morning.{{cite web |title=Floating city for high-tech start-ups? |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/floating-city-for-high-tech-start-ups/ |publisher=CBS News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821091600/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505268_162-57482030/floating-city-for-high-tech-start-ups/ |archive-date=August 21, 2012 |url-status=live |date=July 30, 2012}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7_KnbXFQdU Alt URL] In November 2011, he spoke on Big Picture Science with Seth Shostak.{{cite web |title=Big Picture Science - Going Global: Max Marty |url=http://radio.seti.org/blog/2012/11/big-picture-science-going-global-max-marty/ |publisher=SETI.org |date=November 5, 2012 |access-date=December 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605060243/http://radio.seti.org/blog/2012/11/big-picture-science-going-global-max-marty/ |archive-date=June 5, 2013 |url-status=dead }}
Personal
Marty said he would like to live in a society close to minarchism{{cite web |title=Max Marty: The pirate of Silicon Valley |url=http://moneyweek.com_AWAITING_BAN_REMOVAL/news-and-charts/people-in-the-news/profile-of-max-marty-56734 |publisher=MoneyWeek |date=Dec 13, 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and if he weren't working in Blueseed, he would pursue radical but practical innovation in education, telecommunications, augmented reality, and clothing.
Marty is signed up for cryonics and runs the [https://www.cryonicsunderground.com/ Cryonics Underground podcast].{{Cite web |title=Cryonics Underground |url=https://www.cryonicsunderground.com/1510453 |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Buzzsprout |language=en}}