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Mar 22, 2022 · Affirm founder and CEO Max Levchin has a few things flowing in his veins.. One, an admirable work ethic that sees him pushing his own physical boundaries each day. Think working to near exhaustion ...
Dec 10, 2017 · Affirm. Max Levchin founded PayPal with Peter Thiel in 1999, and it grew with the help of Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman. PayPal went public and was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
Mar 15, 2022 · Max Levchin grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, while it was still part of the Soviet Union. In 1991, when he was 16 years old, he and his family fled to America to escape anti-Semitism. “The scariest ...
Jan 13, 2011 · Max Levchin has 4 current jobs including Founder & General Partner at SciFi VC, Founder & CEO at Affirm, and Founder & President at HVF Labs. Additionally, Max Levchin has had 8 past jobs including Chairman of the Board of Directors at Yelp. Founder & General Partner Jan 2017. Founder & CEO Jul 2012. Founder & President Jan 2012.
Jul 11, 2013 · A Conversation with PayPal Cofounder Max Levchin. July 11, 2013. By his own admission, Max Levchin was not meant to work for large companies or other people. Whether or not he was born an entrepreneur, he certainly became one early in life. He founded his first company while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the alma ...
The company was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998 as Fieldlink, later it was renamed Confinity, a company which developed security software for hand-held devices. When it had no success with that business model, it switched its focus to a digital wallet.
