Bryan Reisberg

Bryan Reisberg is an American entrepreneur and social media influencer. He is the owner of Maxine the Fluffy Corgi, his photos and videos of her becoming viral media. From Maxine's videos he also founded Little Chonk, a pet lifestyle and wellness company which launched with The Maxine One dog backpack, which he invented and used to carry Maxine around New York City. Since 2025, he has also posted videos of himself taking adoptable dogs on adventures around the city, many of the videos leading to the successful adoption of the featured dog.

Early life Reisberg went to high school at Walt Whitman High School in Maryland. During that time, he participated in one of the school's groups called Whitman Shorts, creating short news videos shown to the school, which got him interested in film production. He attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, graduating early after three years in 2009.

Career After graduating, he began writing his script for Big Significant Things, which was inspired by some of his favorite films, Five Easy Pieces, Last Picture Show, The Landlord and Shampoo, and works of Billy Wilder and Alexander Payne. One of his fellow students from Tisch, Andrew Corkin, helped him to finance the film, which premiered at South by Southwest in 2014 and had a wider release in 2015. This did not deter him from beginning work on a second script after Big Significant Things release, as well as directing short commercials.

In 2016, Reisberg and his wife got a corgi, Maxine, as a wedding present to themselves. Reisberg often took Maxine in the production studio to avoid leaving the dog at home alone, using a doggy backpack on the New York City subway, which often drew passengers' attention. The success of Axl's video, both for Axl and Reisberg, led Reisberg to continue making similar videos on a once-a-week basis, most which have ended with similar adoption successes, with 28 adopted dogs from his videos by April 2026.