Max Levchin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Max Levchin

American businessman

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1975

Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine

Profession: businessperson, computer scientist, entrepreneur

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin (Ukrainian: ??????????? ?????????? ??????; born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-born American software engineer.
In 1998, soon after graduating from college, he co-founded (with Peter Thiel) the company that eventually became PayPal.
Levchin notably made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts and is also the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test. He has also founded or co-founded the companies Slide.com, HVF and Affirm.
He was an early investor in Yelp and was their largest shareholder as of 2012.