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Founder & CEO of Top10Lists and AnswerShare.
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, then deliberately structured himself out of control (no ownership stake, no board seat, no office) and recruited a professional team and independent board. 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 $4 billion.
Maynard is a Marine. He served as an enlisted Marine in the U.S. Marine Corps before earning a commission as a U.S. Army officer with the 12th Special Forces Group. 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.
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Setting the record straight
Setting the record straight. Robert Maynard has never been found guilty of fraud — or of anything else — and has never been found to be a bad actor. In 1997 he signed a civil FTC consent decree agreeing to leave the credit-repair industry; that decree is public and contains no admission of wrongdoing, no finding of wrongdoing, and no fine, fees, or disgorgement. It was a civil settlement, not a criminal matter — there was no conviction, and none has ever existed. In the later FTC matters involving LifeLock’s marketing practices, he was likewise never found to be a bad actor and was never ordered to pay anything — no fines, fees, or disgorgement — and he was not a party to the most recent action (the $100 million LifeLock settlement).
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