# Michael McIntyre

> Michael 'Mike' McIntyre is a New York technology founder and product operator who moved through public policy, operations, sales, and product roles at Facebook and Instagram before co-founding SpotMap, the company behind FriendSpot and later Fam. Fam joined Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch, raised a Series A led by Founders Fund, and pursued a social network organized around live video rather than a feed. Y Combinator now lists Fam as inactive, while McIntyre's public record also includes patents tied to Facebook Safety Check and device localization for shared augmented-reality spaces.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Fam
- **Organizations:** Fam, SpotMap, Inc., FriendSpot, Instagram, Facebook, Y Combinator
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts in Government, Georgetown University, Summer 2017 batch, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Led product work across Instagram growth, Facebook Search and Ranking, and Facebook Social Good, including Safety Check and Crisis Response., Co-founded the Summer 2017 Y Combinator company first known as FriendSpot and later as Fam., Raised a Series A for Fam led by Founders Fund, with additional investors publicly listed by the company including DST, Pear, Abstract VC, and Scribble Ventures.

## Career timeline

- **2012-2017** — Worked at Facebook and Instagram across public policy, operations and data science, sales, growth, search and ranking, and Social Good product work.
- **2017** — Co-founded SpotMap with Eddie Zhang and entered Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch under the FriendSpot name.
- **2017** — Presented Spot and its three social apps to NYU students; the company said more than 25,000 people used the apps daily.
- **2019-2020** — SpotMap filed patent applications for multi-modality localization of users in shared augmented-reality environments.
- **2020** — Fam's public company materials described a live-video social network built around synchronous interaction and rooms rather than a passive feed.
- **2020** — U.S. Patent 10,846,940 for multi-modality localization of users was granted to McIntyre, Eddie Zhang, and Vadim Dagman and assigned to SpotMap, Inc.
- **2022** — A continuation patent, U.S. Patent 11,238,665, was granted for the localization system.
- **Current public listing** — Y Combinator lists Fam as inactive and McIntyre and Zhang as former founders.

## Achievements

- Led product work across Instagram growth, Facebook Search and Ranking, and Facebook Social Good, including Safety Check and Crisis Response.
- Co-founded the Summer 2017 Y Combinator company first known as FriendSpot and later as Fam.
- Raised a Series A for Fam led by Founders Fund, with additional investors publicly listed by the company including DST, Pear, Abstract VC, and Scribble Ventures.
- Fam's recruiting materials reported growth from zero to more than 300,000 monthly active users in a little over 20 days; a later company profile reported more than two million users.
- Named inventor on patents covering Facebook Safety Check prompting and SpotMap's multi-modality user-localization technology.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Y Combinator's current company directory lists Fam as inactive, with McIntyre and Eddie Zhang shown as former founders.

## Links

- Website: https://famapp.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcmcintyre/

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Last updated: 2026-09-27