Entries in Max Levchin (2)

Sunday
Dec202009

Max Levchin | Slide

image credit: Morgan Sherwood/Wikimedia CommonsMax Levchin was born on July 11, 1975 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union. He co-founded PayPal along with Peter Theil. Ebay later acquired Paypal in 2001 for $1.5 billion. Levchin is also the founder of Slide.

 

 

 

 

Friday
Aug202010

Peter Thiel | PayPal

image credit: TechCrunch50-2008/FlickrPeter Thiel was born in 1967 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Thiel co-founded PayPal along with Elon Musk, and Max Levchin and was its CEO. He was an early investor in Facebook making an angel investment of $500,000 in Facebook for %10.2 of the company in 2004. He is currently a managing partner in the Founders Fund.