Max Levchin
1975 – ? American, Ukrainian engineer, PayPal co-founder
PayPal's founding engineer who later built Affirm.
- Religion
- Jewish background.
- Affiliations
- Co-founded and was chief technology officer of PayPal; founded Affirm and Slide; chaired Yelp. Backed the fertility company Glow.
Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn was born in Kyiv in the Soviet Union and emigrated with his Jewish family to the United States in 1991. He co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel and served as its technology chief. He later founded the lending company Affirm.
Connections
- associate of Elon Musk — PayPal Mafia colleagues.
- associate of Peter Thiel — Co-founded PayPal together.
In the timeline
- 1998 Confinity founded mentioned
- 2000 Musk ousted as CEO in board coup mentioned
- 2012 Affirm founded by Max Levchin central figure