Max Levchin

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Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of PayPal and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley’s fintech industry.

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Yahoo Inc. (post-Verizon media reorganization)
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citizenship United States of America
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PayPal
countryOfBirth Kazakh SSR
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Soviet Ukraine
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dateOfBirth 1975-07-11
degree Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
educatedAt University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
ethnicOrigin Jewish
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fieldOfWork computer science
financial technology
online payments
founded Affirm
HVF
Slide
fullName Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn
givenName Max
graduationYear 1997
immigratedTo United States of America
immigrationYear 1991
industry fintech
technology
languageSpoken English
Russian
Ukrainian
memberOf PayPal Mafia
nationality Ukrainian-American
notableAchievement developed early anti-fraud technologies at PayPal
pioneered point-of-sale installment lending with Affirm
notableFor co-founding PayPal
founding Affirm
occupation chief executive officer
software engineer
technology entrepreneur
placeOfBirth Kyiv
positionHeld CEO of Affirm
CEO of Slide
Chief Technology Officer of PayPal
residence San Francisco Bay Area
spouse Nellie Levchin

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