Max Levchin (Affirm, PayPal)

Oct 4, 2018, 10:30 PM – Oct 5, 2018, 1:00 AM

Max Levchin is the founder and CEO of Affirm, co-founder and Chairman of Glow, and co-founder and general partner at SciFi VC. All three companies were created and launched from his San Francisco based innovation lab, HVF (Hard, Valuable, Fun). Max was an original cofounder of PayPal where he served as the CTO until acquisition. He was the first investor in Yelp and Chairman from 2004 until 2015.

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About this event

Max Levchin is the founder and CEO of Affirm, a financial services technology company, co-founder and Chairman of Glow, a data-driven fertility company, and co-founder and general partner at SciFi VC, a private venture capital firm. All three companies were created and launched from his San Francisco based innovation lab, HVF (Hard, Valuable, Fun). 

Max was one of the original co-founders of PayPal where he served as the CTO until its acquisition by eBay in 2002. In 2002, he was named to the Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world as well as Innovator of the Year. 

In 2004, he founded Slide, a personal media-sharing service for social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, which he sold to Google in August 2010. Also in 2004, he helped start Yelp, where he was the first investor in and Chairman of the Board from 2004 until 2015. 

He has served on several boards such as Yahoo!, Yelp, Evernote.

Max is a serial entrepreneur, computer scientist, philanthropist and active investor in more than 100 startups.

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Max Levchin

    Affirm, PayPal

    Co-founder + CEO

When

When

October 4 – 5, 2018
10:30 PM – 1:00 AM UTC

Agenda

10:30 PMCheck-in and grab some food & drink
11:00 PMFireside chat w/ Max Levchin
12:00 AMCommunity drinks and networking

Host

  • Peter Crysdale

    Minerva

    SVP, Hard Problems

Organizers

  • Joshua Ness

    IEEE

    Director, Startup Grind NYC

  • Tova Feldheim

    Datum

    Cofounder

  • Adrian Plesca

    GRAI

    CEO

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