Nobody talks about this guy. Totally low profile. Quietly built his company over 7 years, taking it from $0 to $3.6b in cash - with real recurring revenue and best-in-class metrics. I caught him on a rare night out in NYC. Chris Turlica is the best! Thanks to my partner Merritt Hummer, we got to see him in action first-hand, building one of the most remarkable companies completely under the radar. So grateful to Chris and the entire MaintainX team!
Well. Artisanal Talent talks about him almost every day 😆. Congrats all! Special Founder and person. Big hug!
Aaref Hilaly is that the Metropolitan Museum?
couldn’t agree more!
He IS the absolute BEST! Congrats, Aaref!
A true entrepreneur and nice person!
Only the people already in the room noticed after 7 years and $3.6B. That's the playbook :)
Such a cool story and team 👏
Thanks for sharing Aaref Hilaly! It seems like Chris' previous company was in the social messaging space. Do you know any more details on how he picked this domain/problem in which he seemingly didn't have existing distribution advantage? Of all the problems he could have picked, why this?
Congrats Aaref Hilaly and Chris and team. (Great to see our clients in this type of news.)
More in Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/autodesk-to-buy-maintainx-for-about-3-6-billion-in-cash-mppxfnfb