How to Have a Collegial Relationship With Your Partner

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When i was building a slide, i over indexed on this idea of a, we really have to have just a lot more collegiality. And that works well if you are doing grain as a company. But inevitably, every company goes through ups and downs,. Sometimes downs take a long time, and you ney go throgh the pit of despair for a while. You don't actually need to feel like that person is an amazingly nice guy. The ke thing is, i know you will be in your fox hole, holding your position sort of almost like a military level intensity.

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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