Founder of a listed tool

Max Williams

Historical co-founder and CEO, named behind the Pusher Channels listing on Anchor Terminal.

Historical co-founder and CEO

Max Williams co-founded Pusher with Damien Tanner and was its CEO, including when MessageBird acquired it in 2020. Pusher runs a hosted API for realtime notifications, chat and live dashboards, and his posts on its blog cover life at the company and its culture and processes.

What Max builds

  • Pusher Channels D · Event delivery & webhooks

    Hosted realtime pub/sub from Pusher, a Bird company. Servers publish events through a signed HTTP API, and web and mobile clients subscribe to public, private, presence, encrypted and cache channels over WebSocket.

    Historical co-founder and CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Max Williams?

Max Williams co-founded Pusher with Damien Tanner and was its CEO, including when MessageBird acquired it in 2020. Pusher runs a hosted API for realtime notifications, chat and live dashboards, and his posts on its blog cover life at the company and its culture and processes.

What does Pusher Ltd (a Bird company) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Pusher Channels from Pusher Ltd (a Bird company). Hosted realtime pub/sub from Pusher, a Bird company. Servers publish events through a signed HTTP API, and web and mobile clients subscribe to public, private, presence, encrypted and cache channels over WebSocket.

How are Max's tools graded?

Pusher Channels is graded D, 51.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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