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  "markdown": "Historical co-founder and CEO.\n\nMax 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.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maxwilliams1\n- X: https://x.com/maxthelion\n\n## What Max builds\n\n- [Pusher Channels](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pusher-channels.md), graded D, 51.9/100, in Event delivery \u0026 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 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Damien C. Tanner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/damien-c-tanner/), Historical co-founder\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Max Williams?\n\nMax 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.\n\n### What does Pusher Ltd (a Bird company) make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### How are Max's tools graded?\n\nPusher Channels is graded D, 51.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://pusher.com/author/max-williams/\n- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maxwilliams1\n- https://x.com/maxthelion\n- https://dc.tanner.me\n- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dctanner\n- https://x.com/dctanner\n- https://pusher.com/\n- https://pusher.com\n- https://pusher.com/legal/support/\n- https://docs.bird.com/pusher\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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