Max Levchin
Ukrainian-born American software engineer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Max Levchin | |
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Максиміліан Левчин | |
Born | Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn (1975-07-11) July 11, 1975 (age 48) |
Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS) |
Occupation(s) | CEO of Affirm Co-founder and former CTO of PayPal |
Website | www |
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.