BUILT FOR THE LIFE AFTER WORK.

From 2021 to 2024, I was caught in a cycle of injuries that kept me sidelined. I was supposed to be in my prime, yet I was waking up with the inflammation of someone triple my age. The frustrating part wasn't even the pain — it was watching everyone around me accept it. Take the desk job. Wait for the weekend. Slow down because that's what people do. I never wanted that life. I started MAXIS because I couldn't keep paying for supplements that didn't work, and I wasn't going to settle for feeling tired in my twenties just because that's what was normal.

I always admired athletes who could compete at a high level, hold a real GPA, and still build something of their own — same person, three lanes, none of them slipping. That's the standard I set for myself. Most supplement brands made it harder. Fragmented. Overpriced. Built for one part of performance, not the whole thing. So we made the brand we couldn't find.

I've been running since I was 11. Distance running forces you to be disciplined, consistent, and locked in every day — especially when no one is watching. Balancing high-level competition, academics, and building a business in parallel taught me there wasn't a supplement system built for people living like this. Overpriced, overhyped, or too specialized for one thing. We built MAXIS for the person showing up at a high level across all of it.

I've never been good at sitting still. Not in the dramatic way — just in the way that 'good enough' has never actually felt good enough to me. There's always something to push further, something to refuse to settle into. I think the people who get the most out of life are the ones who never stop chasing more from themselves. At some point I realized you can't keep asking that of yourself without taking care of what's fueling it. MAXIS came from that.