Max Lytvyn is a programmer and billionaire, co-founder of Grammarly.
Place of Birth, Education
He was born on December 3, 1977 in Kyiv.
He studied at the English-language International Christian University in Kyiv, which worked until 2013.
Career
In 2004, Lytvyn went to Canada for a master’s program at the University of Toronto.
In the same year, together with Oleksiy Shevchenko, he founded the MyDropbox service to check student papers for plagiarism. By 2007, about 800 universities were already using it.
In 2008, they sold MyDropbox to Blackboard, after which Lytvyn worked for this company for another 2 years.
In 2009, together with Shevchenko and Dmytro Lider, he founded Grammarly , an online service for checking English-language texts.
In 2019, the company was valued at $1 billion, and in 2021 – at $13 billion.
Fortune
In 2020, Lytvyn’s fortune was estimated at $250 million. In the Forbes ranking, he took 36th place among the richest Ukrainians.
In February 2022, his fortune was $4 billion, and in December – $2.3 billion. According to Forbes, he ranked 2nd among the richest Ukrainians.
In 2023, “NV. Business” estimated his fortune at $ 865 million. In the ranking, he took 7th place.
