Max Levchin

Co-founder of PayPal.

Organizations and connections

Affiliations retain their dates and sources. Roles may be historical; a missing end date does not establish a current role. Machine classifications need review; a co-mention alone does not establish a relationship.

1. Max Levchin→Affirm

   Co-founded

   foundedFrom 2012 · end not recordedCurated evidence
   • Affirm 2026 annual report: company origins ↗Affirm
   • Max Levchin: board biography ↗Affirm
2. Max Levchin→PayPal

   Co-founded

   foundedFrom 1998 · end not recordedCurated evidence
   • Max Levchin: board biography ↗Affirm
   • PayPal: founding, IPO and acquisition history ↗Sequoia Capital
3. Max Levchin→Slide

   Co-founded

   foundedDates not recordedCurated evidence
   • Max Levchin: board biography ↗Affirm
4. Max Levchin→University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

   Educated at

   educated atThrough 1997 · start not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Max Levchin ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q93014$CFC2BD08-78CE-4E4D-AC5D-8F28AF48F47B1 reference record retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Max Levchin ↗Wikidata
5. Max Levchin→Stephen Tyng Mather High School

   Educated at

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   • Wikidata: Max Levchin ↗Wikidata
6. Max Levchin→Google

   Works or worked for

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   • Wikidata: Max Levchin ↗Wikidata
7. Max Levchin→Affirm

   Chief executive of

   leadsDates not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Affirm ↗Wikidata · P169 · Statement Q65085822$d1b60e28-4d4a-74fa-9d4f-a21206d1022d1 reference record retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Affirm ↗Wikidata
8. Max Levchin→Affirm

   Founded

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   • Wikidata: Affirm ↗Wikidata · P112 · Statement Q65085822$e0800abb-4605-bd40-75d1-534cca41196c1 reference record retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Affirm ↗Wikidata
9. Elon Musk↔Max Levchin

   Reported colleagues

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   • Stripe Raises $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel ↗techcrunch.com · 2012-07-10
10. Max Levchin↔Glenn Theodore Seaborg

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
11. Greg Brockman↔Max Levchin

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    • Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 29th January ↗www.meetup.com · 2014-01-13
12. Max Levchin↔John Shoch

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
13. Max Levchin↔Parisa Tabriz

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    • PlanetScale makes it easy to build multi-cloud databases ↗techcrunch.com · 2018-12-13
14. Fred Terman↔Max Levchin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
15. Eugene Kleiner↔Max Levchin

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
16. Max Levchin↔William Shockley

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
17. Max Levchin↔Meg Whitman

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    • The Divorce of eBay and PayPal ↗mashable.com · 2015-07-20
    • Sheryl Sandberg on husband's death: 'I have lived 30 years in these 30 days' ↗www.theguardian.com · 2015-06-03
    • Sheryl Sandberg's moving tribute to the husband who died: 'Dave was my rock' ↗www.theguardian.com · 2015-05-06
    • Ebay takes over PayPal for £1bn ↗www.theguardian.com · 2002-07-09
18. Max Levchin↔Dan Schulman

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    • The Divorce of eBay and PayPal ↗mashable.com · 2015-07-20
19. Max Levchin↔Reid Hoffman

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    • Peter Thiel is taking a Break from Democracy ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2023-11-09
    • Peter Thiel & Max Levchin: "Silicon Valley Lacks Radical Innovation" ↗www.siliconvalleywatcher.com · 2011-02-23
    • Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 ↗jmail.world · 2026-02-15
    • Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia ↗techcrunch.com · 2011-02-14
    • Sheryl Sandberg on husband's death: 'I have lived 30 years in these 30 days' ↗www.theguardian.com · 2015-06-03
20. Larry Page↔Max Levchin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Max Levchin to Leave Google As Slide Is Shut Down ↗allthingsd.com · 2011-08-26
21. Max Levchin↔Robert Metcalfe

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
22. Max Levchin↔Pierre Omidyar

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • The Divorce of eBay and PayPal ↗mashable.com · 2015-07-20
23. Max Levchin↔Philip Rosedale

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
24. Max Levchin↔Ralph Merkle

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
25. Alexis Ohanian↔Max Levchin

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    • Ex-Googlers Launch Sift Science (YC S11), a Fraud-Fighting System For Websites ↗techcrunch.com · 2013-03-19
26. Jeff Bezos↔Max Levchin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference 2006 makes selections ↗en.wikinews.org · 2006-09-13
27. Max Levchin↔Condoleezza Rice

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
28. Max Levchin↔Ken Olsen

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
29. Max Levchin↔Patrick Collison

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Stripe Raises $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel ↗techcrunch.com · 2012-07-10
    • Did PayPal Just Clone Stripe’s API Documentation? ↗techcrunch.com · 2013-03-09
30. Jessica Livingston↔Max Levchin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • How life sciences work: Findings of a year-long investigation (2019) ↗guzey.com · 2022-01-16
    • Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) ↗paulgraham.com · 2020-04-03
31. Ben Horowitz↔Max Levchin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia ↗techcrunch.com · 2011-02-14
32. Max Levchin↔Steve Chen

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • PlanetScale makes it easy to build multi-cloud databases ↗techcrunch.com · 2018-12-13
    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Peter Thiel & Max Levchin: "Silicon Valley Lacks Radical Innovation" ↗www.siliconvalleywatcher.com · 2011-02-23
33. Max Levchin↔Reed Hastings

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
34. Max Levchin↔Robert Noyce

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
35. Max Levchin↔Alvy Ray Smith

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
36. Chad Hurley↔Max Levchin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Peter Thiel & Max Levchin: "Silicon Valley Lacks Radical Innovation" ↗www.siliconvalleywatcher.com · 2011-02-23
37. Max Levchin↔Michael Dell

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
38. Luke Nosek↔Max Levchin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Peter Thiel is taking a Break from Democracy ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2023-11-09
    • Scott Alexander Reviews Thiel's Zero to One ↗slatestarcodex.com · 2019-01-31
    • The invention of selective breeding was unbelievably late (2019) ↗gwern.net · 2023-04-30
    • Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes ↗blakemasters.tumblr.com · 2012-04-07
39. Max Levchin↔Steve Jobs

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) ↗paulgraham.com · 2020-04-03
    • Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay ↗blakemasters.tumblr.com · 2012-04-20
40. Max Levchin↔Martin Edward Hellman

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
41. Max Levchin↔Carl Djerassi

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
42. Bill Hewlett↔Max Levchin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
43. Max Levchin↔Vinod Khosla

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Peter Thiel is taking a Break from Democracy ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2023-11-09
44. Max Levchin↔Tyler Cowen

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    • How life sciences work: Findings of a year-long investigation (2019) ↗guzey.com · 2022-01-16
45. Max Levchin↔Jaron Lanier

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
46. John Mauchly↔Max Levchin

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
47. Max Levchin↔Edwin Catmull

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
48. Max Levchin↔J. Robert Oppenheimer

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
49. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Max Levchin

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    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
50. Max Levchin↔Melinda Gates

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    • Peter Thiel is taking a Break from Democracy ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2023-11-09