Max Levchin

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In the latest interview with CNBC, the CEO of the fintech lender Affirm claimed he might have to consider accepting bitcoin (BTC), despite his initial skeptical stance on crypto. The infamous crypto skeptic appears to be warming up to cryptocurrencies, as bitcoin is closer than ever to $50,000. Crossing Over...

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Max Levchin, CEO and founder of fintech Affirm and PayPal co-founder, sat down with CNBC’s Squawk on the Street team to discuss its fintech Affirm, including its latest earnings and outlook, as well as cryptocurrency. As previously reported, Affirm is a point of sale credit provider that is currently working...

Then you head over to B2B payments … and you recoil in horror as you migrate away from a utopian future of promise to the ruins of an antiquated past. A mash-mash of payment methods from paper checks to wire transfers get sent against invoices, none of which are automatically synchronized across financial information systems. Financing is complicated and offered by a bank through — gasp — an actual phone call. Shudder, because there probably involves a fax machine somewhere in that loop.

Max Levchin, whose buy-now-pay-later online payments company Affirm just debuted on the Nasdaq, has played significant roles in many successful startups over the years. His early payments platform, Confinity, merged with Elon Musk’s X.com to create PayPal in 2000. Article continues below advertisement. In 1996, he founded NetMeridian Software, an...

Affirm, a “buy now pay later” company led by PayPal co-founder and former CEO Max Levchin, went public today at a valuation of nearly $15 billion — and then saw its share price more than double. Axios Re:Cap goes deeper with Levchin, to discuss the IPO, why he believes credit...

Since co-founding PayPal in 1998, Max Levchin has been on the up and up. He has worked alongside billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk for decades. By 2012, he founded a successful software company. Now, he's moving into billionaire territory. Article continues below advertisement. In 2019, Levchin was worth...

Max Levchin, Affirm's founder and CEO, owns 27.5 million shares in the online lender, worth just over $1 billion at the top end of the company's IPO price range. Levchin was previously a co-founder of PayPal, along with Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and others. Affirm lets consumers take out point-of-sale...