Max Rafael Levchin (born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-born computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former chief technology officer of PayPal.
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet...
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Max Rafael Levchin (born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-born computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former chief technology officer of PayPal.
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, NetMeridian Software and SponsorNet New Media. In 1998, he founded Fieldlink with John Bernard Powers, (who left the company shortly thereafter) and Peter Thiel, which was renamed Confinity. Confinity was later merged with another company, X.com, and combined entity was named PayPal.
There is a lot of controversy around the merger of X.com and Confinity. Many believe that it was not a good deal for PayPal, and that it was forced upon them by their venture capitalists (VCs). Eric Jackson, an early employee of PayPal, offers a detailed...
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