Max Levchin
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 Max Levchin      (businessman, computer scientist) | |
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| Born | Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn 1975-07-11 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Children | 2 |
| Spouse | Nellie Minkova |
| Founder of | PayPal |
| Member of | The Paypal Mafia, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2011 |
Career
In 1998, Levchin and Peter Thiel founded Fieldlink. In 2001, the name changed to become Paypal.
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Elon Musk | “Despite having perhaps the greatest entrepreneurial streak of all the PayPal Mafia, Musk was purged from PayPal like some kind of toxin. Soon after the merger, Thiel resigned.
Musk became CEO of the combined company and decided it was time for a technological overhaul. Specifically, he wanted to toss out Unix and put everything on a Microsoft (MSFT) platform. That may sound innocent enough to laypeople but not to Unix zealots like Levchin and his team. A holy war ensued. Musk lost. The board fired him and brought back Thiel while Musk was on a flight to Australia for his first vacation in years. “That’s the problem with vacations,” Musk deadpans. Musk still contends he didn’t deserve his fate, that his biggest flaw was being cut from different cloth. “Peter, Max, and I are not directly aligned philosophically,” he says. “Peter’s philosophy is pretty odd. It’s not normal. He’s a contrarian from an investing standpoint and thinks a lot about the singularity. I’m much less excited about that. I’m pro-human.”” | Elon Musk Fortune | 2007 |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
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