Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks eagerly pursued political influence, and when President Donald Trump took power for the second time, their stars ascended.

Thiel and company founder Max Levchin “envisioned a cashless mobile world,” author Jimmy Soni wrote in “The Founders,” a 2022 book about PayPal. Around that time, Thiel was seeking to lure Sacks — a ...

CEO Max Levchin teased the buy now/pay later lender's plans for generative AI deployment on the search engine of its app during the company's fiscal third quarter earnings call with analysts Thursday.

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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 ...

Max Levchin had just taken his company public and was looking to also go for a spin. On the heels of a PayPal deal that swiftly made him a multimillionaire, Levchin sought to deliver on that classic ...

Affirm CEO Max Levchin recounts working alongside Elon Musk and Peter Thiel at PayPal, shares the best (and worst) leadership advice he ever received. This interview was recorded on May 9, 2024.

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 ...

Max Levchin: Thanks for having me. Lauren: We're obviously gonna talk a lot about Affirm and buy now, pay later today. But before we get into Affirm, I wanted to zoom into that future.

Max Levchin isn’t anti-credit, he really wants you to know. He’s anti-credit card.There’s a big difference. He will talk about credit cards endlessly, and he’ll skillfully bring it all ...