Max Levchin

Entrepreneur

The endless-ideas man

Max Levchin cofounded Paypal and sits on the board at Yahoo. His R&D lab, HVF, starts new businesses, like the mobile-payment company Affirm.

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Fast Company

Here Are 38 Amazing Immigrants Worth Celebrating On Independence Day

A reminder that often it’s the people who come to America that make America great.

Fast Company

How My Cycling Obsession Makes Me A Better Entrepreneur

PayPal cofounder Max Levchin talks about how he makes time for an intense hobby with a super-busy schedule. (Hint: He wakes up really early.)

Fast Company

With a $1.75 Billion Valuation Under Its Belt, What’s Next For Stripe?

Fast Company caught up with cofounder John Collison to see what Stripe has in store for the new year.

Fast Company

Glow, A Fertility App Conceived By A Former Slide Exec, Is Powered By Data Instead Of Assumptions

Rather than tackling small problems like laundry, Glow, created by Google and PayPal veterans, aims to help parents discover their fertility window and become creators themselves.

Fast Company

The Secret Hiring Practice That Helped Max Levchin Build PayPal

Way before PayPal became a mafia, it was a small startup. Cofounder Max Levchin on how he picked his people.

Fast Company

5 Habits Of The Most Creative People

How do the most creative people work? Bryan Cranston, Kendrick Lamar, Max Levchin, and other creatively supercharged folks share their methods.

Fast Company

Reid Hoffman On PayPal’s Pivoted Path To Success

Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, explains the five pivots of PayPal.

Fast Company

Did Google Pay $182 Million for a New VP?

Days after Google bought social app developer Slide, its CEO steps into the search giant’s top engineering role.

Fast Company

Google Slides Into Social Gaming

By purchasing the Facebook app maker Slide, Google signals it’s ready to enter a much-contested business.

Fast Company

10 Questions that Media Companies Should Know the Answer To

As media companies like the New York Times Co. continue to post dreary results and circulation numbers continue to decline rapidly across the industry – It got me thinking of some questions that these companies (and other media companies) need have an answers for -a few years ago already.

Ideas

Sam Adams Tries To Raise Up Craft Brewing By Supporting The Competition

Ideas

Rick Perry Is Fighting Historical Forces In The Energy Market–He’s Going To Lose

Ideas

This New Documentary Shows The Struggle To Help People Coming Home From Prison

Entertainment

Inside The Dumbest First Amendment Battle Of 2017

Entertainment

Julia Michaels Is Exactly What Pop Music Needs Right Now

Entertainment

“Stranger Things 2” and “Ready Player One” Trailers Are Peak ’80s Nostalgia

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Product

A Rare Look At One Of MoMA’s First Design Shows

Cities

Meet The NYC Renter Who Built A Business Exposing Bad Landlords

Product

Can Lego Make Coding As Fun As Bricks? My 3-Year-Old Put It To The Test

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Ideas

Sam Adams Tries To Raise Up Craft Brewing By Supporting The Competition

Technology

Why Would Anyone Let Their Employer Stick A Microchip Into Their Body?

Technology

Max Levchin

Entrepreneur

Stories about Max Levchin

Here Are 38 Amazing Immigrants Worth Celebrating On Independence Day

A reminder that often it’s the people who come to America that make America great.

How My Cycling Obsession Makes Me A Better Entrepreneur

PayPal cofounder Max Levchin talks about how he makes time for an intense hobby with a super-busy schedule. (Hint: He wakes up really early.)

With a $1.75 Billion Valuation Under Its Belt, What’s Next For Stripe?

Fast Company caught up with cofounder John Collison to see what Stripe has in store for the new year.

Glow, A Fertility App Conceived By A Former Slide Exec, Is Powered By Data Instead Of Assumptions

Rather than tackling small problems like laundry, Glow, created by Google and PayPal veterans, aims to help parents discover their fertility window and become creators themselves.

The Secret Hiring Practice That Helped Max Levchin Build PayPal

Way before PayPal became a mafia, it was a small startup. Cofounder Max Levchin on how he picked his people.

5 Habits Of The Most Creative People

How do the most creative people work? Bryan Cranston, Kendrick Lamar, Max Levchin, and other creatively supercharged folks share their methods.

Reid Hoffman On PayPal’s Pivoted Path To Success

Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, explains the five pivots of PayPal.

Did Google Pay $182 Million for a New VP?

Days after Google bought social app developer Slide, its CEO steps into the search giant’s top engineering role.

Google Slides Into Social Gaming

By purchasing the Facebook app maker Slide, Google signals it’s ready to enter a much-contested business.

10 Questions that Media Companies Should Know the Answer To

As media companies like the New York Times Co. continue to post dreary results and circulation numbers continue to decline rapidly across the industry – It got me thinking of some questions that these companies (and other media companies) need have an answers for -a few years ago already.

Ideas

Sam Adams Tries To Raise Up Craft Brewing By Supporting The Competition

Rick Perry Is Fighting Historical Forces In The Energy Market–He’s Going To Lose

This New Documentary Shows The Struggle To Help People Coming Home From Prison

Entertainment

Inside The Dumbest First Amendment Battle Of 2017

Julia Michaels Is Exactly What Pop Music Needs Right Now

“Stranger Things 2” and “Ready Player One” Trailers Are Peak ’80s Nostalgia

Co.Design

A Rare Look At One Of MoMA’s First Design Shows

Meet The NYC Renter Who Built A Business Exposing Bad Landlords

Can Lego Make Coding As Fun As Bricks? My 3-Year-Old Put It To The Test

Fast Company

Sam Adams Tries To Raise Up Craft Brewing By Supporting The Competition

Why Would Anyone Let Their Employer Stick A Microchip Into Their Body?

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