Hi, I'm Max Braglia.

The operator behind it.

I came up through the work. Webmaster, then developer, then digital marketing leader, then VP of Digital Marketing at an agency where I drove 300% revenue growth and scaled digital properties to tens of millions of users. That stretch taught me how growth actually happens — and where most of it gets wasted.

I've run LearnItalianPod since 2004, one of the early podcast projects, now past 28M lifetime downloads. It's also home to ItalianChat, an AI Italian tutor I built with a bilingual voice character. Running a media property this long teaches you the unglamorous half of the business: retention, distribution, and shipping every single week.

I earned CS50W — CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript from HarvardX. It's the credential I'm actually proud of, because it made me a better builder, not a better résumé.

I train hard. Strength six days a week, and I keep my nutrition tight — I'm a certified personal trainer and fitness nutritionist. Same discipline I bring to everything I ship.