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Affirm CEO Max Levchin joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the company's quarterly earnings results, weaker-than-expected guidance, strength of the consumer, state of the economy, his thoughts on ...
Max Levchin says his experience being indebted as a college student pushed him to create a friendlier consumer-payment system. ·Fortune Chloe Berger Updated Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 11:19 AM3 min read ...
Born in Ukraine, Levchin immigrated to Chicago in his teenage years and got his first credit card when he went to college. Self-admittedly operating with a lack of personal finance education, he ...
Max Levchin was once a computer scientist who couldn't get a credit card—even after his company went public. Now he runs a payments platform taking on the credit-card companies he calls 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 ...
In 2010, the Collison brothers co-founded Stripe, which received backing from Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and Sequoia Capital.
Max: Yes. So as a, uh, college student, I got into cryptography, you used to be able to say crypto, but these days it means something else. Lauren: Right. The actual enigma is what you studied.
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 ...