Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and businessman.
23 Facts About Max Levchin
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Max Levchin was an early investor in Yelp and was their largest shareholder in 2012.
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Max Levchin left a leadership role in Yelp in 2015.
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Max Levchin was a producer for the movie Thank You for Smoking.
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Max Levchin had respiratory problems and doctors doubted his chance of living.
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Max Levchin attended Mather High School, and then the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1997.
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Max Levchin is primarily known for his contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts and is the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Max Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA.
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Max Levchin is one of a group of roughly twenty founders and former employees of PayPal who have become referred to as the "PayPal Mafia", due to their success in founding and investing in tech companies after leaving PayPal.
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In 2004, Max Levchin founded Slide, a personal media-sharing service for social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook.
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Slide was sold to Google in August 2010 for $182 million and, on August 25, Max Levchin joined the company as vice president of engineering.
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In late 2011, Max Levchin started a company called HVF that was intended to explore and fund projects and companies in the area of leveraging data, such as data from analog sensors.
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Max Levchin was a key early investor in Yelp, an online social networking and review service that started in 2004.
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Max Levchin was the company's largest shareholder, owning more than 7 million shares as of 2012.
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Max Levchin served as chairman of Yelp's board of directors from its founding until July 2015.
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Max Levchin served on the company's board of directors from August 7,2006, to 2016.
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In December 2012, Max Levchin joined Yahoo's board of directors, and served until December 2015.
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In 2015, Max Levchin was appointed to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau advisory board for a three-year term, making him the first executive from Silicon Valley to be appointed to the board.
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Max 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.
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Max Levchin was featured in "Brilliant Issue" of Portfolio by Conde Nast Publications.
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In 2022 Max Levchin was interviewed in an NPR podcast called "How I Built This" where he spoke about his early life and business endeavors including his role in PayPal.
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Max Levchin was listed as one of the contributors to FWD.
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Max Levchin narrated his personal experience as an immigrant in a video released by the group.
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In 2013, amidst the controversy over mass surveillance and NSA espionage activities, Max Levchin defended the NSA.