Did You Ever Want to Live in a Loft?

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After she broke up with me, i always wanted to live in a loft. Somehow i was obsessed with this idea of extremely high ceilings. And ye i got this loft south of market in san francisco, and i decided to learn how to d j. I think i was tring to call myself d j irate. No shame. We've all done things in our youth that e, you know, our importans want todyunede to do us things. You need to live those experiences to be able to reflect on them.

After PayPal sold to eBay in 2002, Max Levchin could have relaxed on a beach for the rest of his life. But that’s not the kind of person he is. He isn’t happy unless he’s coming up with new ideas and building companies – so much so that he actually fell into a dark place after leaving PayPal. He didn’t fully find himself until years later, when he rediscovered his passion for the “hard, valuable, fun” problems of fintech. Now, Max runs another billion-dollar company: Affirm, a “buy now, pay later” service that’s transforming how we purchase things on credit. This is the second part of a two-part conversation with Max; to hear the story of PayPal, be sure to listen to part 1!

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