Max Levchin

Current

• Founder & CEO at Slide, Inc

Past

• Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at PayPal

Education

• University of lllinois in Urbana-Champaign

Recommended

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Connections

230 connections

Industry

Internet

Max Levchin’s Summary

I start and run companies.

Max Levchin’s Specialties:

Cryptography, product and user-interface design, security, web applications, multi-tier server and network design.

Starting, building, running companies; recruiting, building, running engineering teams; architecting, building, launching large-scale software products.

Max Levchin’s Experience

• Founder & CEO

  Slide, Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  That's right -- I've started a new company, and it's going to take over the world again! But I still need a few good people to help me with it. Ping me if you want to know more.

• Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

  PayPal

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1999 — December 2002 (4 years)

  Co-founded PayPal and was its Chief Technology Officer for four years, seeing the company through development, launch, merger with a arch-rival, two CEO removals, going public and being sold to eBay. Recruited the engineering team, designed and built the networks and software running PayPal site and back-end, designed and built PayPal's (somewhat notorious) security and fraud-prevention systems.

Max Levchin’s Education

• University of lllinois in Urbana-Champaign

  BS, Computer Science, September 1993 — May 1997

  Activities and Societies:

  ACM

Additional Information

Max Levchin’s Groups:

•    PayPal Corporate Alumni (worked there previously)

Max Levchin’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• reference requests
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