Max Levchin
Max Levchin ( Ukrainian Максиміліан Рафаельович Левчин Maksymilian Rafaeljowytsch Levchyn ; * 1975 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is an American IT specialist and co-founder and former CTO of PayPal .
Life
After his childhood and youth in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Levchin emigrated to Chicago in 1991 and studied computer science at the University of Illinois .
In 2002 he went online with PayPal, in 2005 he founded Slide and Yelp . In August 2011 it was announced that Levchin will leave Google as Slide will no longer play a role in Google's further planning.
Levchin continues to co producer of the film Thank You for Smoking .
His book The Blueprint, written together with Peter Thiel and Garri Kasparow and published in 2012, diagnoses a stagnation in technological progress and calls for more extensive investments in research and development in order to increase global prosperity.
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ PayPal co-founder leaves Google , ZDNet August 26, 2011
- ↑ Information about the book ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Norton
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Levchin, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levchyn, Maksymilian Rafaeljowytsch (full name); Левчин, Максиміліан Рафаельович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist, co-founder of PayPal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |