The Seven Deadly Sins

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S i thoght, well, what does vanity look like on line? It has to be media sharing. And so he slide was very much invented through the intellectual, rigorous attempt to figure out how people will behave once vanity becomes the dominant behavior of force. But probably you were just a little bit too early, right? So many instagram accounts are just people taking photoes themselves,. Social me is really, i mean, something we would have called vanity a few years ago is just normal now - it's almost weird.

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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