# Max Williams (slim)

> Max Williams is historical co-founder and CEO. Pusher Channels on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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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.

- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maxwilliams1
- X: https://x.com/maxthelion

## What Max builds

- [Pusher Channels](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pusher-channels.md), graded D, 51.9/100, in 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 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Damien C. Tanner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/damien-c-tanner/), Historical co-founder

## Questions

### 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).

### 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.

## Sources

- https://pusher.com/author/max-williams/
- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maxwilliams1
- https://x.com/maxthelion
- https://dc.tanner.me
- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dctanner
- https://x.com/dctanner
- https://pusher.com/
- https://pusher.com
- https://pusher.com/legal/support/
- https://docs.bird.com/pusher

These 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.