Bio
An angel investor, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of PayPal, Max Levchin currently serves as Founder & CEO of Affirm, a company founded with a goal to create honest financial products and services that empower consumers and improve lives. In addition to Affirm, Max is president of HVF Labs, chairman of Glow, and an advisory board member of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In 1998, soon after graduating from college, he co-founded (with Peter Thiel) the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin notably made contributions to PayPal’s anti-fraud efforts and is also the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test. He was an early investor in Yelp, a local-search service powered by crowd-sourced review forum and served on the Board of Yahoo, prior to it’s acquisition.
Career
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Affirm Inc - founderProvider of consumer loans. |
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SignalFire |
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PayPal Inc - founderWeb-based payment services. |
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Slide Inc - founder |
Education
Selected investments
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Raptr Inc | Seed | ||||
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Slide Inc | N/A | ||||
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AdRoll Inc | Online social advertising network | Series A | |||
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Brex Inc | Corporate credit card company focused on startups. | Series B | |||
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Brex Inc | Corporate credit card company focused on startups. | Series A | |||
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Mixpanel Inc | Real-time web app analytics services | N/A Initial investment | |||
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Pinterest Inc | Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. | Series A | |||
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Returnly | Provider of digital return experiences for direct-to-consumer brands. | Series B Initial investment | |||
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TransferWise Ltd | Money transfer platform. | Seed | |||
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X1 Card | N/A Initial investment | ||||
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Yammer Inc | Series E Initial investment |