How Did You Get Started With Etsy?

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Slide was a way of show casing your own photos. At one point it was hitting like, a hundred and 50 million users a month. Just ten years earlier, bytheway, at's pek, how many employes did you have? Ets? Lide, hundred, 28, if i remember correctly. I never played vido games growing up. I was not really into photography. And so this idea of building ourtemin products was this sorta mask i took on. In some ways, i was using my own product in real life.

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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