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Max Levchin
Максиміліан Левчин
Levchin at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 in San Francisco, California
Born
Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn
(1975-07-11) July 11, 1975 (age 48)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS)
Occupation(s)
CEO of Affirm Co-founder and former CTO of PayPal
Website
www.levchin.com
Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin (Ukrainian: Максиміліан Рафаїлович Левчин; born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and businessman. In 1998, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts[1] and was the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test.
He founded or co-founded the companies Slide.com, HVF, and Affirm. He was an early investor in Yelp and was their largest shareholder in 2012. He left a leadership role in Yelp in 2015.[2]
Levchin was a producer for the movie Thank You for Smoking.
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