Max Levchin
- January 4, 2024
- Entrepreneur
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Max Levchin |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Date Of Birth | Jul 11, 1975(1975-07-11) |
| Age | 49 |
| Birthplace | Kyiv |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Horoscope | Cancer |
Max Levchin Biography
| Name | Max Levchin |
| Birthday | Jul 11 |
| Birth Year | 1975 |
| Place Of Birth | Kyiv |
| Birth Country | Ukraine |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Spouse | Nellie Minkova |
Max Levchin is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on July 11, 1975 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Former Chief Technical Officer at PayPal, founder and founder of Yelp.
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Born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Levchin moved to the United States 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, then the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science in 1997.
In the summer of 1995, Levchin and fellow University of Illinois students Luke Nosek and Scott Banister founded SponsorNet New Media.
In 2008, he married Nellie Minkova (his girlfriend for eight years).
Max Levchin Net Worth
| Net Worth | $300 Million |
| Source Of Income | Entrepreneur |
| House | Living in own house. |
Max Levchin is one of the richest Entrepreneur from Ukraine. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Max Levchin 's net worth $300 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
To avoid persecution, he fled the Soviet Union together with his family.
He created the first CAPTCHA system to stop fraud at PayPal.
Maksymilian Rafailovych “Max” Levchin (Ukrainian: Максиміліан Рафаїлович Левчин ; born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-born American software engineer. In 1998, soon after graduating from college, he co-founded (with Peter Thiel) the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin notably made 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.
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Who is Max Levchin Dating?
According to our records, Max Levchin married to Nellie Minkova. As of December 1, 2023, Max Levchin’s is not dating anyone.
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Levchin appeared as a speaker at the 2007 Startup School organized by Y Combinator, where he described his own journey as an entrepreneur and the mistakes he made and lessons he learned. Levchin was also featured in “Brilliant Issue” of Portfolio by Condé Nast Publications.
Facts & Trivia
Max Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ukraine. Max Levchin celebrates birthday on July 11 of every year.
In 2011, Levchin collaborated with Garry Kasparov and Peter Thiel on a planned book titled The Blueprint, which called for a revival of world innovation. Thiel and Levchin expounded on their thesis in an interview during TechCrunch Disrupt. The book was originally scheduled for a January 2012 release, but was later postponed indefinitely.
Is Max Levchin a billionaire?
He is a husband, a father of two young children, the co-founder of PayPal and the founder of Affirm. Despite the impressive resume — which has seen his net worth surge to more than $1.2 billion , according to Forbes — Levchin is back trying to take the buy now, pay later (BNPL) sector to the next level by way of Affirm.
How much is Max Levchin worth?
As of 2021 Levchin had an estimated net worth of a little over $3 billion (USD).
Where is Max Levchin from?
Kyiv, Ukraine
How did Max Levchin Meet Peter Thiel?
At age 23, Max Levchin moved to Palo Alto, where some of his former startup cofounders lived. One former cofounder recommended he talk to Peter Thiel, who was teaching a class at Stanford. Levchin wandered into Thiel’s class and they struck up a conversation.
Who owns PayPal now?
From this merger, PayPal was born. In 2002, PayPal was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion. eBay spun off PayPal in 2015, which would be listed as an independent entity. Today PayPal owns brands like Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, and iZettle.