Max Levchin — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder & CEO of Affirm, Inc. since 2012.
Co-founded PayPal in 1998, contributing to its anti-fraud efforts and co-creating the Gausebeck-Levchin test (CAPTCHA).
Founder & General Partner at SciFi VC since 2017.
Founded Slide in 2004, which was sold to Google in 2010 for $182 million.
Was an early investor in Yelp and its largest shareholder in 2012.
Serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Unity Technologies since 2017.
Earned a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997.

Biography

Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and businessman. Born in Kyiv in 1975, he moved to the United States in 1991 and later earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997.

Levchin co-founded Fieldlink in 1998 with Peter Thiel, which evolved into Confinity and then PayPal, Inc.