Max Levchin
| Max Levchin Максиміліан Левчин Maksymilian Levchyn |
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Levchin at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 in San Francisco, California
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Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn July 11, 1975 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BS |
| Occupation | CEO of Affirm Former corporate director at Yahoo! Co-founder and former CTO of Paypal Chairman of the Board of Directors at Yelp, Inc. |
| Net worth | US$300 million (2014) |
| Spouse(s) | Nellie Minkova (m. 2008) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchyn (Ukrainian: Максиміліан Рафаїлович Левчин; born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-born American 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.
Born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Levchin moved to the United States under political asylum, and settled in Chicago in 1991. In an interview with Emily Chang of Bloomberg, Levchin discussed his overcoming adversity as a child. He had respiratory problems and doctors doubted his chance of living. With guidance from his grandmother and his parents he took up the clarinet to expand his lung capacity. He attended Mather High School and earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997.
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