Max Levchin
Bio
Max Levchin is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Slide, one of the leading widget companies on the Web. Max is renowned as the co-founder and CTO of PayPal, a company he sold to eBay for more than $1.5 billion in 2002 at the age of 26. Max incubated several Internet companies after PayPal and eventually started Slide and helped to launch local listings site Yelp, where he's currently Chairman of the Board.
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), Max moved to Chicago at the age of 16 and later received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Max sits on the board of several other companies and trains for triathlons when he's not obsessing over Slide's business.
Work History
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January 2005 - present
That's right -- I've started a new company, and it's going to take over the world again! But I still need a few good people to help me with it. Ping me if you want to know more.
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January 1999 - December 2002
Co-founded PayPal and was its Chief Technology Officer for four years, seeing the company through development, launch, merger with a arch-rival, two CEO removals, going public and being sold to eBay. Recruited the engineering team, designed and built the networks and software running PayPal site and back-end, designed and built PayPal's (somewhat notorious) security and fraud-prevention systems.
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