/engineering/ en /engineering/events/work-max-levchin-one-paypal-mafia <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Work with Max Levchin one of the Paypal Mafia</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/engineering/users/tbedross" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Tanya Bedrossian</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 04/17/2014 - 15:22</span> <section class="uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col uw-contained-width"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p> </p><div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-width="173" data-height="195"> <img src="/engineering/sites/default/files/uploads/images/maxlevchin.jpg" width="173" height="195" alt="Max Levchin, CEO of Affirm" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <span>Max Levchin is the CEO of </span><a href="https://www.affirm.com/">Affirm</a><span>,</span><span> the next generation financial services company offering consumer credit at the point of sale. He is Chairman of Glow, a women's reproductive health application. B</span><span>oth companies were created and launched from Max Levchin's San Francisco based innovation lab, "HVF".</span> <p> Max was one of the original co-founders of PayPal where he served as the CTO until its acquisition by eBay in 2002. In 2004, he co-founded Yelp, the ratings and review service where he is currently the Chairman of the Board. That same year he founded Slide, a personal media-sharing service for social networking sites where he was CEO until the company was sold to Google in 2010. He also serves on several boards including Yahoo! and Evernote and is an active investor in early stage start-ups. </p><h2 class="no-border"> <span> Max's presentation will be live via video conference</span></h2> <p> <span> He will be interacting with the audience during the question and answer period. Max's colleagues from Affirm will be in attendance to meet you in person.</span> </p><ul><li> <h3> <span> <span> Lyon Wong, Investor Affirm and Associate Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners (BASC SYDE ’03)</span></span></h3> </li><li> <h3> <span> Nathan Gettings, Co-founder</span><span>/CTO Palantir, Founder/ Chief Risk Officer Affirm</span></h3> </li><li> <h2 class="no-border"> Jeff Kaditz, CTO and Co-founder Affirm</h2> </li></ul></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:22:02 +0000 Tanya Bedrossian 1221 at /engineering