Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur who co-founded the online payments company PayPal in 1998, serving as its chief technology officer and leading its early fraud-prevention systems before eBay acquired the company in 2002. He later founded the data analytics firm Slide, sold to Google in 2010, and in 2012 co-founded the online lender Affirm, which offers point-of-sale installment loans as an alternative to traditional credit cards and which he has led as chief executive. He is frequently grouped among the so-called PayPal Mafia, the cohort of early PayPal employees and founders who went on to start or fund numerous other prominent technology companies.
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BirthplaceKiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine) 1 Defining ContributionCo-founded PayPal (as Confinity) in 1998 and served as its chief technology officer 1 Notable Work Connections
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Companies Founded
Max Levchin co-founded PayPal, originally named Confinity, in 1998.
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1. Max Levchin - Wikipedia
Infobox: birth_date
July 11, 1975
Introduction, opening description
Ukrainian-American software engineer and entrepreneur
Introduction, PayPal co-founding
co-founded PayPal as Confinity in 1998, leading the company as chief technology officer
Introduction, Affirm role
co-founder and CEO of Affirm, a buy now, pay later financial services company
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Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin (born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Affirm, a buy now, pay later financial services company, and co-founded PayPal as Confinity in 1998, leading the company as chief technology officer before its
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