Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Affirm, a buy now, pay later financial services company, and co-founde
Levchin at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 in San Francisco, California
Max Levchin seen playing Guitar Hero at a conference
Peter Andreas Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was also the first
Max Levchin
…the summer of 1995, Levchin and fellow University of Illinois students Luke Nosek and Scott Banister founded SponsorNet New Media. In 1998, Levchin and Peter Thiel founded Fieldlink, a security company that allowed users to store encrypted data on their PalmPilots and other PDA devices for handheld devices to serve…
Thiel in 2022
Aron D'Souza in 2025
Peter Thiel and David Graeber discussing technology, democracy and the future in 2014