A Podcast Series by Max Bratter
One city. One founder. One piece of the entrepreneurship puzzle. Season by season, conversation by conversation — the full picture of what it really takes.
The Pitch Room isn't about the highlight reel. It's about the in-between — the pivots, the funding rounds that almost didn't close, the products that nearly killed the company, and the moments when quitting felt like the only rational choice.
Each episode, host Max Bratter sits down with a founder or operator who shares one piece of the entrepreneurship puzzle — their chapter of the story, told in the city where they built it.
Over time, episode by episode, the full picture comes together.
Finance, media, fashion, tech. NYC founders operate on a different frequency — high stakes, high density, relentless competition. The city that never lets you coast.
Energy, space, healthcare, and a bootstrapping ethos that runs deep. Houston entrepreneurs build differently — bigger in scope, quieter in ego. The underrated startup capital.
The valley and the bay — where the biggest bets get made. Venture capital, moonshots, and the culture of building something that doesn't exist yet. Risk as a default setting.
Every founder has a chapter. A hard-won lesson. A specific moment that changed everything. The Pitch Room extracts that chapter — one conversation at a time — until the full journey of entrepreneurship comes into view.
Max travels to NYC, Houston, or San Francisco — sitting down where the founder built their business.
Each guest owns one piece of the puzzle: fundraising, product-market fit, team-building, scaling, or survival.
No scripts. No prep questions leaked in advance. Just an honest conversation about what actually happened.
Over time, the episodes connect. The arc of entrepreneurship — from idea to exit — assembled episode by episode.
Max Bratter is a young entrepreneur, nonprofit founder, and broadcaster who understands — better than most — that the path to doing something meaningful is long, winding, and entirely worth it.
As founder and station manager of WBIT — one of fewer than five public radio stations in the country run entirely by a high school — Max produces live morning shows, news coverage, and now, The Pitch Room. Through NSU University School's USchool Network, he has built a track record in storytelling, interviewing, and live production that translates directly into what this show is trying to do.
He also leads Task Troopers, a 501(c)(3) he built from the ground up, and competes in VEX Robotics at the national level. He started all of it before college.
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Download our one pager — everything about the show, who we're looking for, and how it works. Recordings begin June 20, 2026 across NYC, Houston, San Francisco, and South Florida.