max is 25 and is the opposite of socially awkward, unless his enthusiasm makes him awkward, which... probably. he was adopted at birth and is a trust fund heir to a hotel fortune, kind of like a low level hilton, who moved to san francisco from manhattan when he was 14. he went to stanford for chemistry and has his masters but he is strikingly unmotivated and doesn't have any interest in doing anything outside of his part-time job at the exploratorium. at the very least maybe they could've taken some gen ed classes together and met that way? max graduated early so they could've crossed paths