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Max Levchin (Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn) was born on 11 July, 1975 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, is a Ukrainian-born American software engineer. Discover Max Levchin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

Popular As Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn
Occupation CEO of Affirm Co-founder and former CTO of PayPal
Age 48 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 11 July 1975
Birthday 11 July
Birthplace Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Nationality Ukraine

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Net Worth in 2024 US$300 million (2014)
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1975

Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin (Максиміліан Рафаїлович Левчин; born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and businessman.

1991

Born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR to a Ukrainian-Jewish family, Levchin moved to the United States and settled in Chicago in 1991.

In an interview with Emily Chang of Bloomberg, Levchin discussed his overcoming adversity as a child.

He had respiratory problems and doctors doubted his chance of living.

With guidance from his grandmother and his parents he took up the clarinet to expand his lung capacity.

1995

In the summer of 1995, Levchin and fellow University of Illinois students Luke Nosek and Scott Banister founded SponsorNet New Media.

1997

He attended Mather High School, and then the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1997.

1998

In 1998, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal.

Levchin made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts 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.

In 1998, Levchin and Peter Thiel founded Fieldlink, a security company that allowed users to store encrypted data on their PalmPilots and other PDA devices for handheld devices to serve as "digital wallets".

After changing the company name to Confinity, they developed a popular payment product known as PayPal and focused on digital transfers of funds by PDA.

2000

The company merged with X.com in 2000, and in 2001, the company adopted the name PayPal after its main product.

2002

PayPal, Inc. went public in February 2002, and in July 2002 was acquired by eBay.

Levchin's 2.3% stake in PayPal was worth approximately $34 million at the time of the acquisition.

Levchin is primarily known for his 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.

In 2002, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35, as well as Innovator of the Year.

Levchin is one of a group of roughly twenty founders and former employees of PayPal who have become referred to as the "PayPal Mafia", due to their success in founding and investing in tech companies after leaving PayPal.

2004

In 2004, Levchin founded Slide, a personal media-sharing service for social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook.

Levchin was a key early investor in Yelp, an online social networking and review service that started in 2004.

2006

He served on the company's board of directors from August 7, 2006, to 2016.

2010

Slide was sold to Google in August 2010 for $182 million and, on August 25, Levchin joined the company as vice president of engineering.

2011

On August 26, 2011, Google announced it was shutting down Slide, and that Levchin was leaving the company.

In late 2011, Levchin started a company called HVF (standing for "Hard, Valuable, and Fun") that was intended to explore and fund projects and companies in the area of leveraging data, such as data from analog sensors.

2012

He was an early investor in Yelp and was their largest shareholder in 2012.

In early 2012, the financial technology company Affirm was spun out of HVF, with the goal of building the next-generation credit network.

Affirm was created by Levchin, Palantir Technologies co-founder Nathan Gettings, and Jeff Kaditz of First Data.

The company is based in San Francisco.

He was the company's largest shareholder, owning more than 7 million shares as of 2012.

In December 2012, Levchin joined Yahoo's board of directors, and served until December 2015.

2013

In 2013, HVF launched Glow, a fertility app that helps couples conceive naturally.

After Affirm had its initial public offering, Levchin's stake was estimated at about $2.5 billion.

2015

He left a leadership role in Yelp in 2015.

Levchin was a producer for the movie Thank You for Smoking.

Levchin served as chairman of Yelp's board of directors from its founding, until July 2015.

An angel investor in Mixpanel, its founder Suhail Doshi credits Levchin for Mixpanel's survival and subsequent success.

Levchin is an investor in Evernote.

In 2015, Levchin was appointed to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) advisory board for a three-year term, making him the first executive from Silicon Valley to be appointed to the board.

In 2021, Levchin, after his experience on the advisory board at the CFPB, called for the necessity for the tech industry to engage more with regulators.

As of 2021 Levchin had an estimated net worth of a little over $3 billion USD.