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 ...

Key Takeaways Max Levchin says buy now, pay later company Affirm was born out of his inability to get a credit card.Levchin says he and former colleague Elon Musk focus on science fiction rather than ...

Affirm founder and CEO Max Levchin, who was previously a co-founder of PayPal, built his company with the promise of giving consumers lower-cost and easy-to-tap intstallment loans for purchases ...

Last Friday was Pi Day — March 14 — and Max Levchin was celebrating Affirm Holdings’ 13th anniversary. He chose that date in 2012 to incorporate his buy-now-pay-later fintech because he’s ...

How My Cycling Obsession Makes Me A Better Entrepreneur PayPal cofounder Max Levchin talks about how he makes time for an intense hobby with a super-busy schedule. (Hint: He wakes up really early.) ...

On the heels of its IPO filing, Swedish fintech giant Klarna announced on Monday that it will exclusively provide buy now, pay later loans for Walmart.

Fintech and credit card stocks were hit particularly hard in the market rout that followed President Trump’s tariff ...

Affirm, a startup helping Americans pay for consumer goods over time, has raised $300 million in a new funding round. That brings Affirm's equity funding total to more than $800 million since its ...

The X1 Card, unveiled a year ago and backed by tech execs like PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, started with a 350,000-plus person waitlist but has now launched for all U.S. customers. While its 17 ...

The Affirm CEO talks about new ways consumers are using its buy now, pay later services.

Glow created buzz back in May when founder Max Levchin first showed it off at the AllThingsD D11 conference. He talked on stage about how cervical mucus can help couples pinpoint when to have to ...

Founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek, the payment platform that would later become PayPal began as a Palm Pilot cryptography company called Confinity, which was ...