Max Levchin Biography

Max Levchyn was born July 11 1975 and is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is the Chief Executive of digital lending start-up Affirm. He is also the former chief technology officer of PayPal which he co-founded in 1998. As CTO he was 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 challenge response human test.In 2002 he was named to the 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 founded Slide in 2004 and was involved until 2011. In 2004 he helped start Yelp an online social networking and review service and is their largest shareholder as of 2012. He is involved with other companies as well for example having previously served on the board of directors for Yahoo! and as of January 2016 is on the board of Evernote.

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