Max Levchin
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Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Affirm. Earlier in his career, he co-founded PayPal as Confinity in 1998 and served as its chief technology officer until the company was acquired by eBay in 2002. He is known for PayPal’s anti-fraud efforts and as the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, an early commercial CAPTCHA implementation.
Updated 8 September 2026
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