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  "markdown": "Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson.\n\nChris Rogers became Instacart's chief executive in August 2025 and chairs its board. He joined Instacart in 2019 and was its chief business officer, in charge of retailer relationships, ad sales, partnerships, Instacart Business and Instacart Health. He has more than 20 years of experience across consumer goods, technology, retail and media.\n\n## What Chris builds\n\n- [Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instacart.md), graded D, 48.5/100, in Shopping, returns \u0026 refunds. The Instacart Developer Platform API and its hosted MCP server turn a recipe or shopping list into an Instacart Marketplace page, where the person picks a store and checks out. It also finds nearby retailers by postal code. Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Anirban Kundu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anirban-kundu/), Chief Technology Officer\n- [Apoorva Mehta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/apoorva-mehta/), Co-founder and founding CEO\n- [Brandon Leonardo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brandon-leonardo/), Co-founder\n- [John Adams](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-adams/), VP, Head of Product\n- [Max Mullen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/max-mullen/), Co-founder\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Chris Rogers?\n\nChris Rogers became Instacart's chief executive in August 2025 and chairs its board. He joined Instacart in 2019 and was its chief business officer, in charge of retailer relationships, ad sales, partnerships, Instacart Business and Instacart Health. He has more than 20 years of experience across consumer goods, technology, retail and media.\n\n### What does Maplebear Inc. (Instacart) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP from Maplebear Inc. (Instacart). The Instacart Developer Platform API and its hosted MCP server turn a recipe or shopping list into an Instacart Marketplace page, where the person picks a store and checks out. It also finds nearby retailers by postal code.\n\n### How are Chris's tools graded?\n\nInstacart Developer Platform API + MCP is graded D, 48.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/22796-apoorva-mehta\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/instacart\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/apoorvamehta/\n- https://x.com/apoorva_mehta\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/25111-max-mullen\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmullen/\n- https://x.com/max\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/21133-brandon-leonardo\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardo/\n- https://x.com/shiftb\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsejpal\n- https://ca.linkedin.com/in/stefany-bogatan\n- https://company.instacart.com\n- https://docs.instacart.com/support/request_technical_support\n- https://docs.instacart.com/developer_platform_api\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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