Max Lytvyn
Background
Max Lytvyn was born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, and studied business administration and computer science at International Christian University in Kyiv and Vanderbilt University in the United States. In 2002, alongside Alex Shevchenko, he co-founded MyDropBox, an early plagiarism detection software company acquired by Blackboard in 2007.
Role at Grammarly Inc.
Max Lytvyn is the co-founder of Grammarly, Inc. Following the successful acquisition of MyDropBox, Lytvyn realized that identifying plagiarism after a student wrote a paper was treating the symptom rather than the cause: students plagiarized because they lacked confidence in their ability to communicate clearly in English. In 2009, alongside Alex Shevchenko and Dmytro Lider, Lytvyn founded Grammarly to help anyone write with confidence. A visionary commercial strategist and values-led leader, Lytvyn established Grammarly's culture of ethical AI, bootstrapped the company to profitability for eight years, and guided its ascent into a $13.0 billion global communication titan. Lytvyn's principled, values-led leadership established Grammarly's cultural DNA of ethical artificial intelligence, intellectual rigor, and profound customer empathy. Steering the company through eight years of profitable bootstrapping and subsequent institutional financing at a $13.0B valuation, Lytvyn remains a visionary statesman for ethical technology and a dedicated philanthropist supporting Ukrainian humanitarian resilience.