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Max Levchin is an entrepreneur, software engineer, investor, and executive producer known for founding and being involved with various successful companies including Yelp, PayPal, Affirm, Yahoo, and HVF.
After coming to the United States in 1991 from the Ukraine, Levchin attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied Computer Science and earned his Bachelor's degree in 1997. While attending college, he co-founded his first company, SponsorNet New Media. In 1998, he co-founded Fieldlink, which eventually become Confinity. That company later came to be known as PayPal in 2001, based off of its main product that it developed.
In 2004 Levchin founded a social media company known as Slide that was sold to Google. Following the shut down of that company, he founded HVF, an investment company. A financial technology company known as Affirm was spun out of HVF and Levchin is the CEO of Affirm.
Levchin has also served on the board of directors for various companies and has also acted as an executive producer on the film Thank You for Smoking.
