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About
Robert Maynard, Jr. is the Founder & CEO of Top10Lists and AnswerShare.
Maynard has built category-defining technology since the 1990s.
He co-founded Internet America (NASDAQ: GEEK), one of the first consumer ISPs, and LifeLock (NYSE: LOCK), the company that defined consumer identity-theft protection — he created its product, marketing, and technology. LifeLock went public in 2012 and was acquired by Symantec for $2.3 billion in 2017. He later founded SurchX, acquired by InterPayments, and in 2025 founded AnswerShare, building the infrastructure that makes the open web legible to AI — with Top10Lists as its live proof of concept. In aggregate, the companies he has built carry a value of roughly $2.7 billion.
Robert Maynard served as an enlisted U.S. Marine and as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. He graduated magna cum laude from Northern Arizona University (B.S., finance & mathematics), where he was named a Distinguished Military Graduate, won a Wall Street Journal Award, and was a Harry S. Truman Scholar finalist (Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma).
On bipolar disorder — by choice, out loud
Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his forties, Maynard is among the more outspoken mental-health advocates in technology. He wrote a memoir — One F*cked Up Dude — and speaks and writes openly about living with the illness and about neurodiversity in the workplace, treating it as part of the record, not a footnote.
AnswerShare is the throughline: build the infrastructure, prove it with receipts, and tell the truth even when the truth is complicated.