Max Levchin

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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.