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Maksym “Max” Klymenko (English: /klɪˈmɛn.koʊ/; Ukrainian: Максим «Макс» Клименко [ˈmaksim kɫeˈmɛnkɔ]; born 27 July 1995) is a Ukrainian internet personality and educator, recording short videos for TikTok and YouTube, regarding career, business, brands and public issues. His most popular series, titled Career Ladder, focuses on him attempting to guess careers of people met on the street under two minutes, while standing with them on a ladder. As of July 2026, Klymenko has 9.7 million followers on TikTok, and about 4.27 million subscribers on YouTube. He is based in London, England.
== Early life and educations ==
Maksym “Max” Klymenko was born on 27 July 1995, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. He has four degrees, in law, economics, business, and sociology, including from the University of Southampton, London School of Economics, and Warwick Business School. He formerly worked as a lawyer and a consultant.
== Career ==
Max Klymenko began his social media creative career by writing a blog about artificial intelligence, later also starting a podcast. In 2018, he started a YouTube channel, where he originally published videos about books and AI. He also founded an educational channel on TikTok. Klymenko…
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