Max Skibinsky is serial entrepreneur, angel investor & start-up mentor. He is currently a Venture Partner with Andreessen Horowitz.Max 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/Disney. Later Max become one of the co-founders of Inporia that secured funding from YCombinator, SV Angels, Clearstone & NEA to launch number of consumer products that used machine learning algorithms for online and mobile e-commerce. Max is also one of resident mentors of 500 Startups. Max holds Masters degree in theoretical physics from Moscow State University. When not designing, brainstorming, advising, and building startups Max can be found flying in general vicinity of Palo Alto airspace.