Max Farrell Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, TN, US

Chattanooga, Tennessee, US

• In 2015, my business partner Andrew Kirpalani and I founded WorkHound, setting out to give the trucking industry — where the average driver turnover rate is a shocking 95% — a better way of communicating. Today, I’m.
• 2015: Founded by Max Farrell and Andrew Kirpalani, WorkHound opens its flagship office in Des Moines, IA, and signs its first customer in the trucking industry.
• 2016: Operations expand with a second office in Chattanooga, TN. The company begins serving a growing number of trucking companies.
• 2017: Using data from workforce feedback, we publish the first edition of the Annual Trends in Trucking Report, establishing WorkHound as a thought leader in workforce analytics and trends.
• 2019: Secured $1.5 million in seed funding to fuel growth and innovation. WorkHound was also named Startup of the Year in Chattanooga, TN, solidifying its reputation as an industry disruptor.
• 2020: Operations expand again, this time internationally with a successful launch in Canada, bringing WorkHound’s solutions to new markets outside the U.S.

• Work with Startup Weekend event organizers across the US to kickstart the entrepreneurial journey of new founders
• Facilitated the 1st ever High School Startup Weekend
• Building better startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Co-organized the first three successful Startup Weekends in the state of Arkansas
• Created events in both Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas
• Raised more than $50,000 in cash and in-kind donations
• Recruited community leaders, serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and 75+ attendees to participate in each event from multiple states and the UK
• Stories about the event were featured on TV, print and online media to raise community awareness
• I got to give back to the state that raised me

In Des Moines, Iowa a group of tech professionals and myself created a 48-hour charity hackathon that connected nonprofit organizations with more than 80 employees from 15 different enterprise and startup companies to solve the tech problems of the nonprofits. We have run this experience twice. The result: 19 nonprofits projects had their biggest technical.

The Create Reason team is a network of entrepreneurs spread across the United States. We have worked in businesses of all sizes, nonprofits, universities and in startups that have scaled across the country. We've helped thousands of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs facilitating Startup Weekends and other innovation events. We've been the innovators inside.

Des Moines, Iowa, US

• At Dwolla I had the privilege to help the company grow its user base by 500%, grow from 10 to 60+ employees and raise more than $20 million from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. My work travel led me.
• Managed relationships with top 5 accounts
• Built outbound sales pipelines
• Grew relationships with government and private sector partners
• Worked with marketing team to deliver amazing content to current members and potential members
• Worked with product team to continue creating great features / functions to build the ideal way to move money

Des Moines, Iowa, US

Business Development/ Support/ Fraud Prevention/ Risk Minimization/ Content Strategy/ User Experience Enhancer

Sociology, American Studies

Entrepreneurial Strategies, Business Management For Musicians