Max Levchin

Max Levchin is an investor and advisor to emerging technology companies. He was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of HVF, a startup lab focused on extracting insights from recordable information. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Affirm, a small dollar credit lender offering credit based on alternative data for creditworthy people with thin or no credit file. Max co-founded PayPal and was its Chief Technologist for years. More recently, he co-founded Confinity Inc. in December 1998, and served as the Chief Technology Officer and a director. He also serves as chairman of the boards of directors of Yelp Inc. and Kaggle Inc., and as a director of Evernote Corporation.