Max Levchin, CEO of buy-now, pay-later platform Affirm, said it’s important to help your employees pack their boxes after you lay them off. Although he was “terrified of owning the responsibil ...

As a board member, he's helped steer Yahoo and Evernote. Now, Max Levchin's latest venture, the financial technology company Affirm, is seeking to bring more accountability and transparency to the ...

Liking features on social media can provide troves of data about human behavior to AI models. But as AI gets smarter, will it be able to know users’ preferences before they do?

Max Levchin, who immigrated to the United States as a teenager from Ukraine, achieved a smashing success in 2002 when he was just 26 years old. The company he co-founded, PayPal, was sold to eBay ...

Max Levchin founded PayPal with Peter Thiel in 1999, and it grew with the help of Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman. PayPal went public and was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. He is now the CEO of ...

At age 23, Max Levchin moved to Palo Alto, where some of his former startup cofounders lived. One former cofounder recommended he talk to Peter Thiel, who was teaching a class at Stanford.

Affirm CEO Max Levchin joins Yahoo Finance Live’s Rachelle Akuffo and Brian Sozzi to discuss company earnings, competition in the buy now, pay later space, the pullback in consumer spending ...

Washington Post technology editor Christina Passariello speaks with Affirm CEO Max Levchin and Cornell University professor Eswar Prasad on the future of money, the evolution of the financial ...

Affirm CEO Max Levchin recounts working alongside Elon Musk and Peter Thiel at PayPal, shares the best (and worst) leadership advice he ever received, and addresses “phantom debt” tied to the ...

Founder Max Levchin was part of the team that helped launch PayPal in 1998. Levchin recently spoke with The Associated Press about the health of Affirm’s borrowers and its increasing number of ...