Last Friday was Pi Day — March 14 — and Max Levchin was celebrating Affirm Holdings ... his biggest venture since he built PayPal with Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, and the rest ...

Max Levchin, cofounder of PayPal and CEO of buy-now-pay-later platform Affirm, said one of the biggest leadership lessons he learned was to help his newly laid-off employees move out of the office.

Founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek, the payment platform that would later become PayPal began as a Palm Pilot cryptography company called Confinity, which was ...

Former Zomato executives, akin to the 'PayPal Mafia,' are launching innovative startups across sectors from healthtech and ...

Max Levchin, and Peter Thiel, PayPal became the go-to brand name in online money management and was bought by eBay in 2002. As of 2025, PayPal accounts for 45% of the global payments market and ...

The Affirm CEO talks about new ways consumers are using its buy now, pay later services.

Role in PayPal: One of the co-founders, alongside Thiel, Elon Musk and Ken Howery and his friend from the University of Illinois, Max Levchin and Vice President of Marketing and Strategy.

Glow created buzz back in May when founder Max Levchin first showed it off at the AllThingsD D11 conference. He talked on stage about how cervical mucus can help couples pinpoint when to have to ...

Affirm CEO Max Levchin candidly shared his early struggles with layoffs, evolving to physically support affected employees. His approach includes maintaining a strong company culture to soften the ...

engages in a compelling conversation with renowned fintech entrepreneur Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and founder-CEO of Affirm, and moderated by Asia Society Trustee and Citi's Ida Liu. They will ...